LEADER 03061nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910461155503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-968-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000095358 035 $a(EBL)843319 035 $a(OCoLC)733816191 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522856 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913757 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522856 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10539819 035 $a(PQKB)10397768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843319 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12518 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843319 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10481055 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000095358 100 $a20110125e20111985 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGentlemen on the prairie$b[electronic resource] $eVictorians in pioneer Iowa /$fby Curtis Harnack 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 1 $aBur Oak Book 300 $a"First published by Iowa State University Press, 1985." 300 $a"A Bur Oak Book." 311 $a1-58729-967-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Author 330 $aIn the 1880's, the well-connected young Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers, having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie, conceived the idea of enticing sons of Britain's upper classes to pursue the life of the landed gentry on these fertile acres. "Yesterday a wilderness, today an empire": their bizarre experiment, which created a colony for people "of the better class" who were not in line to inherit land but whose fathers would set them up in farming, flourished in Le Mars, Iowa (and later in Pipestone, Minnesota), with over five hundred 410 0$aBur Oak Book 606 $aBritish$zBig Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAgricultural colonies$zBig Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aClose Colony (Iowa)$xHistory 607 $aBig Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBritish$xHistory 615 0$aAgricultural colonies$xHistory 676 $a978.3/39 700 $aHarnack$b Curtis$f1927-$0668384 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461155503321 996 $aGentlemen on the prairie$92128144 997 $aUNINA