Ham, eggs, and corn cake a Nebraska territory diary / Erastus F. Beadle ; introduction by Ronald C. Naugle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894.

Standardized Title:

To Nebraska in '57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Middle West.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--Nebraska.

Pioneers--Nebraska--Diaries.

Pioneers.

Omaha Region (Neb.)--Biography.

Omaha Region (Neb.).

Omaha Region (Neb.)--Social life and customs--19th century.

Nebraska--Social life and customs--19th century.

Nebraska.

Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894--Travel--Middle West.

Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894--Diaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages) : illustrations, maps

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act embroiled the plains states in a struggle that presaged the war to come, the irrepressible Erastus F. Beadle left his home in Buffalo, New York, and set out for the territories to see about some land. Specifically, Beadle had a stake in the Sulphur Springs Land Company, an enterprise that proposed to build the community of Saratoga just north of Omaha for prospective settlers, who were arriving by the boatload. In diary pages and letters home, Beadle noted his impressions-the details, anecdotes, and characters that filled his days-and in doing so, left a remarkable record of a bygone way of life in the American West. Beginning with his three-month journey westward, Beadle takes us from the hardships and amusements of travel on the "Big Muddy" to the magnificent sight of a prairie fire at night, from the political propaganda abroad in the "slavery stronghold" of Kansas to the realities of doing business on the Nebraska frontier. Whether describing roads or water routes, mishaps or accommodations, finances, politics, or daily life, Beadle writes with an immediacy and character that make his diary as entertaining as it is informative-a living, intimate chapter of American history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Originally published as: To Nebraska in '57 : a diary of Erastus F. Beadle. New York : New York Public Library, 1923.

"Bison books"--Prelim. p.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610465750

9781280465758

1280465751

9780803202450

0803202458

OCLC:

50699559