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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814755103321

Titolo

This State of Wonders [[electronic resource] ] : The Letters of an Iowa Frontier Family, 1858-1861 / / edited by John Kent Folmar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1991

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Bur Oak Book

Altri autori (Persone)

FolmarJohn Kent <1932->

Disciplina

977.7/02

977.702

Soggetti

Farmers -- Iowa -- Correspondence

Williams family

Farm life - Iowa - History

Farmers - Iowa

Iowa Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Iowa never looked more delightful""; 2. ""Lessons of humility and of humanity""; 3. ""The storm that hovers on the horizon""; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the  1850's, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty.  Suddenly land poor, in debt, and caught in the Panic of '57, they sent  their eldest son, James, to Georgia to work and add to the family  income.The seventy-five letters collected here represent the family's  correspondence to their absent son and brother. From 1858 to 1861,  James' sisters, brothers, mother, and father wrote to him frequently,  each with distinct views on their daily life and struggles. While Mr.  Williams wrote most often ab