Pure Nostalgia: Memories of Early Iowa - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813809754 ISBN 13: 9780813809755

Publisher: Iowa State University Press, 1979

Synopsis

Copyright 1979, first edition, hardcover with dustjacket, 212 pages with b/w illustrations and many photos throughout. SUBJECT: "Experiences of early Iowa life 1850-1940. EXAMPLES: In 1854 motherless Asanath Hampton Gable and siblings left Ohio to join their Iowa father; Des Moines urchin T. I. (Timmie) Stoner, in 1869 became a successful businessman; The Findlay family came to Clay County in 1870 in covered wagons; Ira Nichols, a livery boy in Glidden, Iowa later attended college at Ames in 1886 and became an outspoken newspaperman; Albert Parks Butts was a railroad man 1904-1956 who recorded his experiences as a conductor amonst the immigrants, peddlers, policitians, gamblers, and youngsters heading to wars; Bert and Imogene Hamilton on a 270-acre livestock farm during the bitter winter of 1936 with multiple blizzards from January 18 through February 22 which closed schools, stalled trains, towns ran out of coal and food while livestock froze; and more." CONDITION: Front of dustjacket had 3-inch rip and stain at upper-right corner with several 1/2 inch edge-rips. Book corners are slight bent with rolled spine edges. Binding is secure in this unmarked book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Iowa State University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0813809754
• ISBN 13: 9780813809755
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Hamilton Carl