03061nam 2200613 a 450 991046115550332120200520144314.01-58729-968-2(CKB)2670000000095358(EBL)843319(OCoLC)733816191(SSID)ssj0000522856(PQKBManifestationID)11913757(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522856(PQKBWorkID)10539819(PQKB)10397768(MiAaPQ)EBC843319(MdBmJHUP)muse12518(Au-PeEL)EBL843319(CaPaEBR)ebr10481055(EXLCZ)99267000000009535820110125e20111985 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGentlemen on the prairie[electronic resource] Victorians in pioneer Iowa /by Curtis HarnackIowa City University of Iowa Press20111 online resource (263 p.)Bur Oak Book"First published by Iowa State University Press, 1985.""A Bur Oak Book."1-58729-967-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Athlete into Immigrant; 2. The Prairie Lords; 3. The Prospect before Them; 4. Going Out to Iowa; 5. Landed Gentry in the Making; 6. Some Difficulties Surmounted; 7. Gentlemanly Activities; 8. The Faces of Success; 9. The Colony Portrayed; 10. How the Game Was Played; 11. Colony Concepts, Personal Destinies; 12. Two Colonials; 13. Getting On with It; 14. The State of the Colony; 15. A Bit of a Struggle; 16. Dramatic Endings; 17. In the Fullness of Time; 18. The Vanished Colony; Notes; Index; About the AuthorIn the 1880's, the well-connected young Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers, having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie, conceived the idea of enticing sons of Britain's upper classes to pursue the life of the landed gentry on these fertile acres. "Yesterday a wilderness, today an empire": their bizarre experiment, which created a colony for people "of the better class" who were not in line to inherit land but whose fathers would set them up in farming, flourished in Le Mars, Iowa (and later in Pipestone, Minnesota), with over five hundredBur Oak BookBritishBig Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)History19th centuryAgricultural coloniesBig Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)History19th centuryClose Colony (Iowa)HistoryBig Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)HistoryElectronic books.BritishHistoryAgricultural coloniesHistory978.3/39Harnack Curtis1927-668384MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461155503321Gentlemen on the prairie2128144UNINA