Land fever : dispossession and the frontier myth /

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James Marshall's illuminating study of dispossession on the frontier begins with the autobiography of a pioneer who met repeated failure. Writing in his old age, Omar Morse (1824-1901) loked back on the successive loss of three homesteads in mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin and Minnesota. The f...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marshall, James M., 1924-1989 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Temas:
Morse, Omar, > 1824-1901.
Morse, Omar, > 1824-1901
1800-1899
Pioneers > Wisconsin > Biography.
Pioneers > Minnesota > Biography.
Land tenure > Wisconsin > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Minnesota > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > Wisconsin.
Frontier and pioneer life > Minnesota.
Pionniers > Wisconsin > Biographies.
Pionniers > Minnesota > Biographies.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life
Land tenure
Pioneers
Rural conditions
Wisconsin > Rural conditions.
Minnesota > Rural conditions.
Wisconsin > Conditions rurales.
Minnesota > Conditions rurales.
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One; Introduction; The Autobiography of Omar H. Morse; Part Two; 1. The Dispossession of the Morse Family; 2. The Morse Narrative and a Countermyth of Dispossession; 3. The Repossession: A Creative Recovery of Community; Appendix A. Letters to Manly and Anna Morse; Appendix B. Morse's Essay on the Philippine Islands; Appendix C. Family Record of O.H. Morse; Notes; Works Consulted; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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