This State of wonders :  the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 / 
edited by John Kent Folmar. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Iowa City :  University of Iowa Press,  1986. 
 - 1 online resource (xxix, 154 pages) :  illustrations 
 - A Bur Oak Book .
 - Bur oak book. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[Place of publication not identified] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2010. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1587290669 9781587290664 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt20gqb8s  JSTOR 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Williams family.<br/>Williams family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Farm life--History.--Iowa<br/>Farmers--Iowa--Correspondence.<br/>HISTORY--State & Local.<br/>HISTORY--State & Local--General.<br/>BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--General.<br/>Farm life.<br/>Farmers.<br/>Manners and customs.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iowa--Social life and customs.<br/>Iowa.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic book.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.<br/>Personal correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F621  / .T48 1986eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>977.7/02