Prairie Grass Roots: An Iowa Small Town in the Early Twentieth Century (The Henry A. Wallace Series on Agricultural History and Rural Studies)

Morain, Thomas J.

ISBN 10: 0813800684 / ISBN 13: 9780813800684

Published by Iowa State University Press, Ames, 1988

About this Item

Small bumps at corners of boards. Jacket a little rubbed with slight tears at extremities, and very lightly dulled at spine. 230 x 145 mm. xviii, 294 pp. A study based on Jefferson, Iowa. Morain draws on interviews conducted in 1979 with over 40 longtime Jefferson residents, as well as local newspaper accounts and recent scholarship in social history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prairie Grass Roots: An Iowa Small Town in the Early Twentieth Century (The Henry A. Wallace Series on Agricultural History and Rural Studies)
• Publisher: Iowa State University Press, Ames
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813800684
• ISBN 13: 9780813800684
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History, Culture and Americana

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Synopsis

Prairie Grass Roots describes how broad social changes that happened everywhere in general in the early twentieth century happened somewhere in particular -- Jefferson, Iowa. What was occuring in Jefferson was also happening in Atlantic, Grundy Center, Chariton, and similar midwestern towns in Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska...This book is the product of an extended oral history project the author conducted in 1979 during which he interviewed over forty long time Jefferson residents." ~ from the book's inner jacket blurb