Gentlemen on the Prairie: Victorians in Pioneer Iowa

Name: Gentlemen on the Prairie: Victorians in Pioneer Iowa
Brand: University of Iowa Press
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By Curtis Harnack

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In the 1880s, 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 youths having a go at farming. In "Gentlemen on the Prairie," Curtis Harnack tells the remarkable story of this quite unusual chapter in the settling of the Midwest.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 262
Release Date:: 2011-05-15
Publication Date:: 2011-05-31
Publisher:: University of Iowa Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1587299674
ISBN13:: 9781587299674
Weight:: 431 g
Height:: 15.2 cm
Width:: 22.6 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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