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In the hot summer of 2004, the author floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. This first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones.

Who are the 'plain people', the men and women who till their fields with horse and plow, travel by horse and buggy, live without electricity and telephones, and practice 'help thy neighbor' in daily life? The author visited southeast Iowa for thirteen years. This title presents an informative and companionable introduction to their lifeways.

One of the first celebrity authors, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) became famous almost overnight when ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" appeared in 1852. This volume brings together a range of primary materials about Stowe's private and public life written by family members, friends, and fellow writers who knew or were influenced by her.

The river, like a keen memory, carries a record of the past. The author has spent forty years in the basin of the Upper Iowa River. In this book, he tells the story of the Upper Iowa as it flows through land and people, holding true to Aldo Leopold's conception of land as a community in which water, people, and soil play interactive parts.

Reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later.

A collection of ten stories that features conflicts with neighbors, troubling memories, and suspicions and fears that lead people into isolated corners as distances open up inside them and around them.

Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was one of the leading intellectuals of nineteenth-century America as well as a prominent member of Concord literary circles. This collection of reminiscences provides an identity for this misrepresented personality.

A collection of stories in which the adults can seem as hapless and helpless as the younger characters. It features two neglected daughters who use the language of clothes to cope with their parents' divorce and their father's mail-order bride.

It is nineteenth-century California, and the missions are still burning after the Americans establish the Bear Flag Republic; it is the twenty-first century, and the miners of '49 are relegated to a mural in an arcade. This title takes us on a journey where Native Americans are 'missing persons' outside a diorama of their ancestors.

Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. Written by a team of more than 150 scholars and writers, this title presents the rewarding lives of more than four hundred notable citizens of the Hawkeye State.

Weary from the journalistic treadmill of 'going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests' and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. This memoir is a picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up.

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away much of the romance, myth, and fantasy.

The past and the truth are slippery things, and the art of nonfiction writing requires the writer to shape as well as explore. In personal essays, meditations on the nature of memory, considerations of the genres of memoir, prose poetry, essay, fiction, and film, this work attempts to find answers to the question of what truth in nonfiction means.

In 1939, just before graduating in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002 - sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film - Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth.

Suitable for people with memories of the small-town America that the author describes with such affectionate realism and to those interested in the roots of this renowned man of letters.

Summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa's modern landscape, this book recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. It examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa's prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed.

Reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students.

A debut collection, set in the light-filled deserts of Nevada and Arizona. These ten stories are full of misfit transients like Julian, a crematorium worker who decorates abandoned urns to create a ""lush underground island,"" and the instant Mormon missionary Eli, a hapless divorce who ""always likes people better when they're a little broken.

Devising a formalism rather than concerning itself with discovering the what, this book is about discovering how to say what needs to be said.

Civilization has collapsed after World War XII, dogs have deserted their masters, all the groves and gardens have been destroyed, and love has vanished from the earth. Then one day, ""a young girl who had never seen a flower chanced to come upon the last one in the world.

Looks at the question of ownership, of the words with which we define ourselves and each other, and of whose and what claims are legitimate. This work is a lyric which is grounded in the New American tradition of poets such as John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Charles Olson.

The life of Grove Karl Gilbert, first chief geologist of the US Geological Survey, spanned the heroic age of American geology during the time that this young earth science was being intellectually and institutionally defined. This biography reveals that few other scientists can match Gilbert's range of talents.

A collection of stories that aims to show us how vulnerability, although dangerous, is what makes life astonishingly beautiful and reality strangely unreal.

Matthew Mark Trumbull was a Londoner who immigrated at the age of twenty. Within ten years of his arrival in America, he had become a lawyer in Butler County, Iowa; two years later a member of the state legislature; and two years after that a captain in the Union Army. This biography details the amazing life of this remarkable man.

Introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa's role in the Civil War. This work uses the soldiers letters home as its primary source.

William Vermilion (1830-1894) was a captain in the Iowa Infantry between 1862 and 1865. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher from Indiana. This text is a selection of the hundreds of supportive, informative and heart-wrenching letters they wrote each other during the war.

William Henry Harrison Clayton was one of nearly 75,000 soldiers from Iowa to join the Union ranks during the Civil War. Possessing a high school education and superior penmanship, Clayton served as a company clerk in the 19th Infantry, witnessing battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. His diary and his correspondence with his family in Van Buren County form a unique narrative of the day-to-day soldier life as well as an eyewitness account of critical battles and a prisoner-of-war camp.Clayton participated in the siege of Vicksburg and took part in operations against Mobile, but his writings are unique for the descriptions he gives of lesser-known but pivotal battles of the Civil War in the West. Fighting in the Battle of Prairie Grove, the 19th Infantry sustained the highest casualties of any federal regiment on the field. Clayton survived that battle with only minor injuries, but he was later captured at the Battle of Stirling's Plantation and served a period of ten months in captivity at Camp Ford, Texas.Clayton's writing reveals the complicated sympathies and prejudices prevalent among Union soldiers and civilians of that period in the country's history. He observes with great sadness the brutal effects of war on the South, sympathizing with the plight of refugees and lamenting the destruction of property. He excoriates draft evaders and Copperheads back home, conveying the intra-sectional acrimony wrought by civil war. Finally, his racist views toward blacks demonstrate a common but ironic attitude among Union soldiers whose efforts helped lead to the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Including sixty-two short essays, this work describes in many voices the emotional complexity and historical record of one experience most of us have in common: elementary and secondary school, from our first day all the way to graduation twelve years later.