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Gentlemen on the Prairie: Victorians in Pioneer Iowa (Bur Oak Book)
Gentlemen on the Prairie Victorians in Pioneer Iowa - Bur Oak Book
Author: Curtis Harnack
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, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781587299674
ISBN-10: 1587299674
Publication Date: 5/15/2011
Pages: 262
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Book Type: Paperback
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