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Land Fever Dispossession and the Frontier Myth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1986.Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813148687
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F586 .L363 1986
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Contents:
Subject: 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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction F586.78 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn900344414

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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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