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c2012.
In 1949, Iowa farm wife Evelyn Birkby began to write a weekly column entitled "Up a Country Lane" for the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel. Sixty-thre
Book
©2011.
Readers everywhere fell for Elizabeth Corey, the irrepressible, independent, and fearless Bachelor Bess, whose letters home to Iowa gave us a fir
Electronic resource
1986.
1st ed.
When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the 1850s, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty. Suddenly l
Electronic resource
2009.
1st University of Iowa Press ed.
Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state's most distinctive religiou
Electronic resource
©1996.
Now available in paperback with a new foreword by Marcia Myers Bonta, Birds of an Iowa Dooryard contains Althea Sherman's often caustic, always c
Electronic resource
©2010.
3rd ed.
Although some people refer to Iowa as "flyover country," presidential candidates and political reporters in the national press corps have no diff
Electronic resource
2011.
1st University of Iowa Press ed., expanded ed.
Founded in 1847 by religious separatists, the town of Pella in central Iowa is the state's oldest Dutch American colony, and its crafts, architec
Electronic resource
©2009.
2nd ed.
Now available for the first time in paperback, Farm House tells the story of the first structure built on the Iowa State University campus. Mary
Electronic resource
©2006.
Annotation No bird is common, if we use "common" to mean ordinary. But birds that are seen more commonly than others can seem less noteworthy tha
Electronic resource
©1993.
A Silver anniversary ed.
Nineteenth Century Home Architecture of Iowa City: A Silver Anniversary Edition (Bur Oak Book).
Electronic resource
©2005.
"A Home in the West, first printed in Dubuque in 1858, is unique among emigration literature because it was directed at women, using the form of
Electronic resource