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Category : Johnson County (Iowa)
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Pages : 974

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Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331595758
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 968

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Excerpt from History of Johnson County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, and Its Townships, Cities and Villages From 1836 to 1882: Together With Biographical Sketches of Many Enterprising Farmers, Merchants, Mechanics, Professional and Business Men; A Condensed History of the State; The Constitution of the United States; An Abstract of the Most Important Laws We had no friends to puff nor enemies to punch; no Old sores to pick Open, nor old scores to even up; but with charity for all and malice toward none, we have wrought patiently, diligently and conscientiously at our task to the end. We have aimed to make this volume so reliable and complete that it will take rank at once as a standard cyclopedia of John son county history and interests, alike in the family, the private office, the county offices, or the township iboard meetings. And trusting that this high aim has been reasonably well achieved, we herewith submit our volume to the judgment and the service of its patrons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Languages : en
Pages : 966

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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1050

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Category : Johnson County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 966

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Author: Brookhaven Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 974

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Author: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199324530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.

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Category : Counties
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: Jean Johnson
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1943859787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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No other Western settlement story is more famous than the Donner Party’s ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But a few years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot from Iowa to the California gold rush. The Jayhawkers’ journey took them through the then uncharted and unnamed hottest, driest, lowest spot in the continent—now aptly known as Death Valley. After leaving Salt Lake City to break a road south to the Pacific Coast that would eliminate crossing the snowy Sierra Nevada, the party veered off the Old Spanish Trail in southern Utah to follow a mountaineer’s map portraying a bogus trail that claimed to cut months and hundreds of miles off their route to the gold country. With winter coming, however, they found themselves hopelessly lost in the mountains and dry valleys of southern Nevada and California. Abandoning everything but the shirts on their backs and the few oxen that became their pitiful meals, they turned their dreams of gold to hopes of survival. Utilizing William Lorton’s 1849 diary of the trek from Illinois to southern Utah, the reminiscences of the Jayhawkers themselves, the keen memory of famed pioneer William Lewis Manly, and the almost daily diary of Sheldon Young, Johnson paints a lively but accurate portrait of guts, grit, and determination.

Author: Clarence Stewart Peterson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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