Item Detail
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6099a
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Parker, Nathan Howe
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Iowa as it is in 1855; a gazetteer for citizens, and a handbook for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa; her agricultural, mineralogical, and geological character; her water courses, timber lands, soil and climate; the various railroad lines being built and those projected, with the distances on each; the number and condition of churches and schools in each county; population and business statistics of the most important cities and towns. Information for the immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil; a list of unentered lands in the state, &c
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Chicago
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Keen and Lee
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1855
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1855
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264p
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20cm
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illus., plates, fold. map
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Another edition: 1857 CtY, Ia-Ha, IaHi, ICN, PMA, UPB
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Notes the Mormon settlement called Miller's Hollow; account of the Mormons in Iowa, 1846–48, p. 192–93. The Mormon material is omitted in the 1856 edition, but included in the 1857 edition
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CU, DLC, IdPI, ICN, MiU, NIC, NcD, UPB
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University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho; Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cornell, University, Ithaca, New York; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah