John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier.
Title:
John Wesley North and the Reform Frontier.
Author:
Stonehouse, Merlin.
ISBN:
9780816664610
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- JOHN WESLEY NORTH: A CHRONOLOGY -- EVANGELICAL HUMANISM -- FREE SOIL AND LIBERTY -- ISLAND HOME -- PIONEERS AT THE FALLS -- MINNESOTA, 1850 -- MINNESOTA, 1851 -- PROHIBITION YEAR, 1852 -- A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD, 1853-54 -- REPUBLICAN PARTY -- NORTHFIELD -- TWO CONSTITUTIONS FOR MINNESOTA -- M. & C. V. RAILROAD -- SHORT CORNER -- GENERAL NORTH -- JUDGE NORTH -- PRESIDENT NORTH -- "CORRUPT" JUDGE -- LABORS OF LOVE -- A FOOL'S ERRAND -- A COLONY FOR TENNESSEE -- A COLONY FOR CALIFORNIA -- RIVERSIDE COLONY -- REVOLUTION IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY -- NOTES -- 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 -- Illustrations.
Abstract:
This biography is the absorbing and significant story of a frontier life in America in the nineteenth century. John Wesley North was a carpetbagger in the best sense of the word, and professor Stonehouse points out that no fallacy is more persistent in Am.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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