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Nebraska 1875: Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks

Nebraska 1875: Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks

Curley, Edwin A.
Edwards, Richard

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19th Century United States HistoryMidwestRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0803264682
ISBN13: 9780803264687
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
Europeans who considered emigrating to the American frontier in the nineteenth century could find little information about the real conditions they would face. And most of what was available--the broadsides and advertisements of land companies, speculators, and promoters--was highly suspect. Edwin A. Curley's 1875 account offered something different.

Edwin A. Curley was an English journalist writing for The Field: The Country Gentleman's Newspaper, a London weekly, at a time when the advice to migrating British farmers and farm laborers was that they would find their best chances in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, and that opportunities in the United States had somewhat dried up. Styling himself as special commissioner from The Field to the emigrant fields of North America, Curley arrived in America to report in person on conditions there. His weekly articles were skeptical, acerbic, and amusing but only modestly encouraging to emigrants. Then he arrived on the Great Plains, where he underwent an almost religious conversion, so excited was he at the exceptional possibilities he found there.

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