the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 /
نام نخستين پديدآور
edited by John Kent Folmar.
وضعیت ویراست
وضعيت ويراست
1st ed.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Iowa City :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Iowa Press,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
1986.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
1 online resource (xxix, 154 pages) :
ساير جزييات
illustrations
فروست
عنوان فروست
A Bur Oak Book
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ""Iowa never looked more delightful""; 2. ""Lessons of humility and of humanity""; 3. ""The storm that hovers on the horizon""; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
بدون عنوان
0
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the 1850s, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty. Suddenly land poor, in debt, and caught in the Panic of '57, they sent their eldest son, James, to Georgia to work and add to the family income. The seventy-five letters collected here represent the family's correspondence to their absent son and brother. From 1858 to 1861, James' sisters, brothers, mother, and father wrote to him frequently, each with distinct views on their daily life and struggles. While Mr. Williams wrote most often about money, farm.
یادداشتهای مربوط به نیازمندی های سیستم (منابع الکترونیک)و جزئیات فنی
متن يادداشت
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.