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This State of wonders the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861

Folmar, John Kent, 1932- (Added Author).

Summary: When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the 1850s, 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 about money, farm.

Record details

ISBN: 9780877451549
ISBN: 0877451540
ISBN: 9781587290664 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1587290669 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 154 pages) : illustrations
remote
electronic resource
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.