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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 yeomanry proved to be a cruel illusion.
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"An authentic nineteenth-century American voice crying in the desert. It is worth hearing."―Journal of American History
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- PublisherUniv Pr of Kentucky
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 081311568X
- ISBN 13 9780813115689
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- Number of pages240
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