Gentlemen on the Prairie : Victorians in Pioneer Iowa /
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...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2011.
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Series: | Bur oak book.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |