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Gentlemen on the prairie [[electronic resource] ] : Victorians in pioneer Iowa / / by Curtis Harnack



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Autore: Harnack Curtis <1927-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gentlemen on the prairie [[electronic resource] ] : Victorians in pioneer Iowa / / by Curtis Harnack Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina: 978.3/39
Soggetto topico: British - Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) - History - 19th century
Agricultural colonies - Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Close Colony (Iowa) History
Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) History
Note generali: "First published by Iowa State University Press, 1985."
"A Bur Oak Book."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Author
Sommario/riassunto: In 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
Titolo autorizzato: Gentlemen on the prairie  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-968-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789413403321
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Serie: Bur Oak Book