Reminiscences Of Newcastle Iow

Author : Sarah Brewer-Bonebright
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ISBN 13 : 9781332186754
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Newcastle, Iowa, 1848 written by Sarah Brewer-Bonebright and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Newcastle, Iowa, 1848: A History of the Founding of Webster City, Iowa Carved on the lintel of one of the great state structures at Des Moines are the words Iowa Historical Memorial And Art Building. They impart the scope and depth of interest our state takes in her people of the past, present and future. In directing the activities of this Department of state government the Curator publishes or encourages the publication of pertinent facts and traditions of all eras of state and territorial history and promotes their use in Iowa schools, libraries and publications. It is believed that to successfully discharge this one of the many responsibilities of the office is to promote love of home, state and nation, a passion which throughout history has stood a silent guardian at each post of peril to human liberty. No one can measure the effect of admiration for domestic and public idols, formed from the folk-lore and legends in the character of the world's heroes in war, saints in religion, leaders in enterprise. And nearly all these, in America, have had their idols from the period within or very near the establishment of home life on the virgin soil. Iowa settlements were of men with axe in one hand and rifle in the other, leading families into life without convenience; of women following gladly away from life with comfort, often luxury. Children bred here where there were few if any markets, churches, courts of record, means of transportation of persons, property or intelligence, no matter what their antecedents, their race or language, witnessed and often encountered ills and hazards making of later battles and achievements mere matters of course. On every acre of the Iowa frontier occurred acts of moral and physical heroism, noble if not bloody, as yet unsymbolized in art, inadequately portrayed in literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.