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Author Stonehouse, Merlin

Title John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1965

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages)
Contents JOHN WESLEY NORTH: A CHRONOLOGY; TABLE OF CONTENTS; EVANGELICAL HUMANISM; FREE SOIL AND LIBERTY; ISLAND HOME; PIONEERS AT THE FALLS; MINNESOTA, 1850; MINNESOTA, 1851; PROHIBITION YEAR, 1852; A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD, 1853-54; REPUBLICAN PARTY; NORTHFIELD; TWO CONSTITUTIONS FOR MINNESOTA; Illustrations; M. & C.V. RAILROAD; SHORT CORNER; GENERAL NORTH; JUDGE NORTH; PRESIDENT NORTH; "CORRUPT" JUDGE; LABORS OF LOVE; A FOOL'S ERRAND; A COLONY FOR TENNESSEE; A COLONY FOR CALIFORNIA; RIVERSIDE COLONY; REVOLUTION IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY; NOTES; INDEX
Summary This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in Am
Bibliography Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 247-257) and index
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Subject North, J. W. (John W.)
SUBJECT North, J. W. (John W.) fast (OCoLC)fst00255625
Form Electronic book
LC no. 65015075
ISBN 9780816664610
0816664617
0816658773
9780816658770