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Bezig met laden... Gentlemen on the Prairie: Victorians in Pioneer Iowadoor Curtis Harnack
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 2574 Gentlemen on the Prairie, by Curtis Harnack (read 27 Jan 1994) This 1985 book tells of English aristocrats who came to the LeMars, Iowa, area in the late 1870's and the 1880's and some tried to farm. I found the book not nearly as interesting as I thought it would be. I thought he'd be more genealogical than he was. His account of where things were is vague--he was writing for a broader audience than that in this immediate area, I suppose. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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 Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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