Ten Years on the Iowa Frontier
Author: William H. Ingham
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 104
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Author: William H. Ingham
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Harvey Ingham
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Published: 1914
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Willard L. Boyd
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1609386523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniversity of Iowa legend Willard L. “Sandy” Boyd is a proud middle westerner. His decades of service to the university began in 1954, when he arrived as a law professor. He later became president of the University of Iowa from 1969 to 1981, and led the school through times that were fraught not just for the university but for the country. During the intense polarization of the late sixties and early seventies, Sandy’s compassion and steady leadership ensured that dissent on campus would be honored and would not stop the university’s educational mission. He quickly became admired, not simply for his professional achievements but also for his personal integrity. His memoir, interspersed with personal wisdom gleaned over more than six decades of service and leadership, encapsulates Sandy’s shrewd yet optimistic view of the public university as an institution. At every stage in his life—in the U.S. Navy during World War II, while practicing law or teaching, and in leadership positions at Chicago’s Field Museum and the University of Iowa— Sandy relied on his principles of open disclosure, inclusiveness, and respect for differences to guide him on issues that matter. This chronicle of Sandy’s experiences throughout his life shows us the evolution both of the University of Iowa and of the nation writ large. More importantly, this book gives us a lens through which to examine our present situation, whether debating free speech on campus, the role of the arts and humanities in civil society, or the importance of funding for educational and cultural institutions.
Author: John Kent Folmar
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780835738415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glenda Riley
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten for the general public interested in the pioneer life in Iowa history, this book traces the daily life of an average woman on the American frontier.
Author: John Kent Folmar
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1991-09-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780877453413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen 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, farming, and moral advice (he was minister in the Church of New Jerusalem, as well as a merchant and farmer), Mrs. Williams commented on her daily chores, the family's health, the ever-important weather, and her leisure activities, including the contemporary journals and books she read, such as David Copperfield and Jane Eyre. James' sisters and brothers wrote about many concerns, from schoolwork and housework to games and family celebrations in nearby Webster City. As the letters continue, the affection for the absent James becomes more pronounced. And, as the years go by, the letters touch on more current national trends, including the Pikes Peak Gold Rush and the growing North/South crisis, on which James and his family strongly disagree. James was never to return to Iowa but married and remained in the South, becoming a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army. Complete with voices both young and old, male and female, This State of Wonders offers a wealth of information about the daily life of an ordinary family on the Iowa prairie. It is a book to be treasured by all Iowans interested in the early life of their state and by all historians looking for a complete portrait of family life on the midwestern frontier.
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Silvano Wueschner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-09-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781727348743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the evolution, development, and transformation of a community on the Iowa frontier, from its origins in 1850 to the turn of the century. The work provides and in-depth examination of the beginnings of the Ormanville Community, the pattern of settlement, its growth and development, the relationships that existed, and why the community eventually dispersed. The author draws on oral accounts, public records, family histories, newspaper files, and photographic evidence to portray the lives of the members of the community. "A good piece of work...especially in mining the county records - a valuable source often not used-" Malcolm Rohrbough, University of Iowa.
Author: Andrew R. L. Cayton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998-08-22
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780253212177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost history concentrates on the broad sweep of events, battles and political decisions, economic advance or decline, landmark issues and events, and the people who lived and made these events tend to be lost in the big picture. Cayton's lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes; George Croghan, the ultimate frontier entrepreneur; the world as seen by George Rogers Clark; Josiah Hamar and John Francis Hamtramck; Little Turtle; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison and William Henry Harrison; Tenskwatawa; Jonathan Jennings; Calvin Fletcher; and many others. Focusing his account on these and other representative individuals, Cayton retells the story of Indiana's settlement in a human and compelling narrative which makes the experience of exploration and settlement real and exciting. Here is a book that will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike while going a long way to reinfusing our understanding of history and the historical process with the breath of life itself.