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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Marshall, James M., 1924-1989 (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Morse, Omar, > 1824-1901.
Rural conditions.
Pioneers.
Land tenure.
Frontier and pioneer life.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Pionniers > Minnesota > Biographies.
Pionniers > Wisconsin > Biographies.
Frontier and pioneer life > Minnesota.
Frontier and pioneer life > Wisconsin.
Land tenure > Minnesota > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Wisconsin > History > 19th century.
Pioneers > Minnesota > Biography.
Pioneers > Wisconsin > Biography.
Wisconsin.
Minnesota.
Minnesota > Conditions rurales.
Wisconsin > Conditions rurales.
Minnesota > Rural conditions.
Wisconsin > Rural conditions.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 frontier as Morse encountered it was a place of runaway land speculation, of high railroad freight rates, of mortgage foreclosures, and of political and economic chaos. Stoic and resilient in adversity, Morse nevertheless expressed the anger of those for whom the Jeffersonian ideal of an independent yeoma.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780813148687

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