| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) |
| Series |
Bur Oak Book |
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Bur oak book.
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| Contents |
Preface; Introduction; 1. Athlete into Immigrant; 2. The Prairie Lords; 3. The Prospect before Them; 4. Going Out to Iowa; 5. Landed Gentry in the Making; 6. Some Difficulties Surmounted; 7. Gentlemanly Activities; 8. The Faces of Success; 9. The Colony Portrayed; 10. How the Game Was Played; 11. Colony Concepts, Personal Destinies; 12. Two Colonials; 13. Getting On with It; 14. The State of the Colony; 15. A Bit of a Struggle; 16. Dramatic Endings; 17. In the Fullness of Time; 18. The Vanished Colony; Notes; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
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 hu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cowan, Walter.
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Cowan, James, 1862 or 1863-1940.
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| SUBJECT |
Cowan, James, 1862 or 1863-1940 fast |
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Cowan, Walter fast |
| Subject |
British -- Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) -- History -- 19th century
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Agricultural colonies -- Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Agricultural colonies
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British
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| SUBJECT |
Close Colony (Iowa) -- History
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Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) -- History
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| Subject |
United States -- Big Sioux River Valley
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587299681 |
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1587299682 |
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