Marshall, James M.,  1924-1989. <br/><br/>
Land Fever  Dispossession and the Frontier Myth. 

 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1986. 
 - 1 online resource (248 pages) 
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One; Introduction; The Autobiography of Omar H. Morse; Part Two; 1. The Dispossession of the Morse Family; 2. The Morse Narrative and a Countermyth of Dispossession; 3. The Repossession: A Creative Recovery of Community; Appendix A. Letters to Manly and Anna Morse; Appendix B. Morse's Essay on the Philippine Islands; Appendix C. Family Record of O. H. Morse; Notes; Works Consulted; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z 
<br/><br/> James 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 yeoma. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813148687 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Morse, Omar, 1824-1901. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pioneers--Wisconsin--Biography.<br/>Pioneers--Minnesota--Biography.<br/>Land tenure--History--Wisconsin--19th century.<br/>Land tenure--History--Minnesota--19th century.<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin.<br/>Frontier and pioneer life--Minnesota.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F586  / .L363 1986