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This is the first novel published in Iowa. Printed in Dubuque in 1858, it was written to recruit emigrants to Iowa; what makes it unique among emigration literature is the fact that it was directed at women, using the form of a domestic novel loaded with gentle mothers and stalwart fathers, flower-gemmed prairies and vine-draped cottages, and lots of tender words and humble weddings to encourage women to settle in the new state. Mary Emilia Rockwell tells the story of Walter and Annie Judson, who one desperate March night decide to move to the West in search of a better life. Walter is an exp

Married women --- Women pioneers --- Women immigrants --- Iowa

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Australian agricultural company; Archives; Correspondence; Pioneers; History; Australia

Pioneers --- Pioneers. --- History --- Parry, William Edward, --- Australian Agricultural Company --- Australian Agricultural Company. --- History. --- Australia.

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Dutch --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Pioneers --- History --- Granum (Alta.) --- Monarch (Alta.) --- Nobleford (Alta.) --- History. --- Dutch Canadians

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In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old West became increasingly distant and romanticized in popular consciousness, Eli S. Ricker (1842–1926) began interviewing those who had experienced it firsthand, hoping to write a multivolume series about its last days, centering on the conflicts between Natives and outsiders. For years Ricker traveled across the northern Plains, gathering information on and off reservations, in winter and in summer. Judge Ricker never wrote his book, but his interviews are priceless sources of information about that time and place, and they offer more balanced perspectives on events than were accepted at the time. Richard E. Jensen brings together all of Ricker’s interviews with those men and women who came to the American West from elsewhere—settlers, homesteaders, and veterans. These interviews shed light on such key events as the massacre at Wounded Knee, the Little Bighorn battle, Beecher Island, Lightning Creek, the Mormon cow incident, and the Washita massacre. Also of interest are glimpses of everyday life at different agencies, including Pine Ridge, Yellow Medicine, and Fort Sill School; brief though revealing memoirs; and snapshots of cattle drives, conflicts with Natives, and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.--

Indians of North America --- Historiography. --- Pioneers --- Ricker, Eli Seavey, --- Relations with Indians. --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life

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"Focuses on the lives of immigrant women in Missouri from the colonial period to the Civil War to industrialization. Draws heavily on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of immigrant women from many social classes and ethnic backgrounds and contains photographs and narratives relating to immigrant life"--Provided by publisher.

Women pioneers --- Women immigrants --- Pioneers --- Immigrants --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Immigrant women --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- History. --- Missouri --- Social life and customs. --- Social life and customs --- State of Missouri --- US-MO --- MO (State) --- Missouri Territory