Gentlemen on the Prairie

Gentlemen on the Prairie PDF Author: Curtis Harnack
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
"Focuses on a remarkable episode in the settling of the American Midwest, the formation in the 1880s of a colony of upper-class British immigrants who viewed Iowa pioneering as a way of perpetuating the Victorian gentleman's code. This social history examines the premises upon which the colony was built, follows its rise and fall, and portrays some of the lives of the resident gentlemen and ladies."--Book jacket.