This State of wonders : the letters of an Iowa frontier family, 1858-1861 / edited by John Kent Folmar.
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-fiv...
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