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Homes in the heartland : balloon frame farmhouses of the upper Midwest, 1850-1920 / Fred W. Peterson.
LIBRA TH4920 .P48 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Fred W.
- Series:
- Rural America (Lawrence, Kan.)
- Rural America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmhouses--Middle West--Design and construction--History.
- Farmhouses.
- Balloon framing--Middle West--History.
- Balloon framing.
- Farmhouses--Middle West--History.
- History.
- Middle West.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1992]
- Summary:
- "Captured in these houses is a wealth of information on life in the farmlands and rural communities of the Upper Midwest. Beautifully written". -- Wisconsin Magazine of History. "An engrossing account of a fundamental episode in American history, the early settlement of the prairie. In many ways the balloon frame stands as a metaphor for that episode". -- New York Times Book Review.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0700605363
- OCLC:
- 25317077
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