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Gentlemen on the prairie : Victorians in pioneer Iowa / by Curtis Harnack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harnack, Curtis, 1927-
- Series:
- Bur Oak Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British--Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)--History--19th century.
- British.
- Agricultural colonies--Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)--History--19th century.
- Agricultural colonies.
- Close Colony (Iowa)--History.
- Close Colony (Iowa).
- Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa)--History.
- Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa).
- Cowan, Walter.
- Cowan, James, 1862 or 1863-1940.
- Cowan, James.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Athlete into Immigrant; 2. The Prairie Lords; 3. The Prospect before Them; 4. Going Out to Iowa; 5. Landed Gentry in the Making; 6. Some Difficulties Surmounted; 7. Gentlemanly Activities; 8. The Faces of Success; 9. The Colony Portrayed; 10. How the Game Was Played; 11. Colony Concepts, Personal Destinies; 12. Two Colonials; 13. Getting On with It; 14. The State of the Colony; 15. A Bit of a Struggle; 16. Dramatic Endings; 17. In the Fullness of Time; 18. The Vanished Colony; Notes; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- "First published by Iowa State University Press, 1985."
- "A Bur Oak Book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587299681
- 1587299682
- OCLC:
- 733816191
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