John Wesley North and the reform frontier / by Merlin Stonehouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stonehouse, Merlin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North, J. W. (John W.).

North, J. W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in Am

Contents:

JOHN WESLEY NORTH: A CHRONOLOGY; TABLE OF CONTENTS; EVANGELICAL HUMANISM; FREE SOIL AND LIBERTY; ISLAND HOME; PIONEERS AT THE FALLS; MINNESOTA, 1850; MINNESOTA, 1851; PROHIBITION YEAR, 1852; A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD, 1853-54; REPUBLICAN PARTY; NORTHFIELD; TWO CONSTITUTIONS FOR MINNESOTA; Illustrations; M. & C. V. RAILROAD; SHORT CORNER; GENERAL NORTH; JUDGE NORTH; PRESIDENT NORTH; ""CORRUPT"" JUDGE; LABORS OF LOVE; A FOOL'S ERRAND; A COLONY FOR TENNESSEE; A COLONY FOR CALIFORNIA; RIVERSIDE COLONY; REVOLUTION IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 247-257) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5877-3

OCLC:

476161586