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Category : Benton County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The History of Benton County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c
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Category : Benton County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The History of Dubuque County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., Biographical Sketches of Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Iowa ...
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Category : Dubuque County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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The History of Jackson County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., Biographical Sketches of Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion ... History of the Northwest, History of Iowa ... Miscellaneous Matters, &c ...
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Category : Jackson County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: F-L. nos. 1601-3103. 1907
Author: Stanislaus Vincent HenkelsPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
History of Fremont County, Iowa
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Category : Fremont County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Annual Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Reports for 1863-90 include accession lists for the year. Beginning with 1893, the apprendixes consist of the various bulletins issued by the Library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries)
The History of Jasper County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c
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Category : Jasper County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Skull in the Ashes
Author: Peter KaufmanPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609381882
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few of his personal items scattered under the body. At first, it seemed to be a tragic accident mitigated just a bit by Novak’s foresight in buying generous life insurance policies to provide for his family. But soon an investigation by the ambitious new county attorney, M. J. Tobin, turned up evidence suggesting that the dead man might actually be Edward Murray, a hard-drinking local laborer. Relying upon newly developed forensic techniques, Tobin gradually built a case implicating Novak in Murray’s murder. But all he had was circumstantial evidence, and up to that time few murder convictions had been won on that basis in the United States. Others besides Tobin were interested in the case, including several companies that had sold Novak life insurance policies. One agency hired detectives to track down every clue regarding the suspect’s whereabouts. Newspapers across the country ran sensational headlines with melodramatic coverage of the manhunt. Veteran detective Red Perrin’s determined trek over icy mountain paths and dangerous river rapids to the raw Yukon Territory town of Dawson City, which was booming with prospectors as the Klondike gold rush began, made for especially good copy. Skull in the Ashes traces the actions of Novak, Tobin, and Perrin, showing how the Walford fire played a pivotal role in each man’s life. Along the way, author Peter Kaufman gives readers a fascinating glimpse into forensics, detective work, trial strategies, and prison life at the close of the nineteenth century. As much as it is a chilling tale of a cold-blooded murder and its aftermath, this is also the story of three ambitious young men and their struggle to succeed in a rapidly modernizing world.
History of Mills County, Iowa
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Busy in the Cause
Author: Lowell J. SoikePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803271891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.
