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Iowa: the home for immigrants, being a treatise on the resources of Iowa and giving useful information with regard to the State for the benefit of immigrants and others.
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- Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN 78-515 v. 1, no. 1-3 (Feb 1969-Jan 1970) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Iowan.
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- Shenandoah, Iowa, Sentinel Press [etc.]
- 1952-present
- 89 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DA (Iowan) Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108 Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DA (Iowan) Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108 Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DA (Iowan) Schwarzman Building - Dewitt Wallace Reference Desk Room 108 Not available - Please for assistance.Iowa : celebrating the sesquicentennial / with essays by Bill Wundram ... [et al.].
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- Helena, Mont. : American & World Geographic Pub., c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN 96-9145 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
De Hollanders in Iowa. Brieven uit Pella, van een Gelderschman.
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- Arnhem, D. A. Thieme, 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IEE (Dutch) (Hollanders in Iowa) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The 1820 journal of Stephen Watts Kearny : comprising a narrative account of the Council Bluff-St. Peter's military exploration and a voyage down the Mississippi River to St. Louis / edited by Valentine Mott Porter.
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- St. Louis : [s.n.], 1908.
- 1908-
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IV (Kearny, S. W. 1820 journal of Stephen Watts Kearny) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The British emigrants' "hand book", and guide to the new states of America : particularly Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin : comprising a general description of the agricultural and commercial facilities, mineral productions, relative advantages that different portions present for settlement, sketches of towns, neighbourhoods, etc., with practical advice to the emigrant, concerning the different routes, time of sailing, &c. / by J. B. Newhall.
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- London : Printed and pub. for the Author by T. Stutter, 1844.
- 1844
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IV (Newhall, J. B. British emigrants' "hand book") Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IV (Newhall, J. B. British emigrants' "hand book") Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Galland's Iowa emigrant: containing a map, and general descriptions of Iowa Territory.
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- Chillicothe [O.] W. C. Jones, 1840.
- 1840
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Galland, I. Galland's Iowa emigrant. 1840) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Galland, I. Galland's Iowa emigrant. 1840) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Iowa: the home for immigrants, being a treatise on the resources of Iowa, and giving useful information with regard to the state, for the benefit of immigrants and others. Pub. by order of the Iowa Board of Immigration.
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- Des Moines, Mills & Co., 1870.
- 1870
- 2 Items
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081920039Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Iowa. Immigration Board. Iowa: the home for immigrants) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NYGB IOWA G 9 Offsite The book that gave to Iowa its name, a reprint.
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- Iowa City, Ia., State Historical Society of Iowa, 1935.
- 1935
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Lea, A. M. Book that gave to Iowa its name) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Iowa as it is in 1855 : a gazetteer for citizens, and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa ... Information for the immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil: a list of unentered lands in the state &c ... / by N. Howe Parker.
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- Chicago : Keen and Lee, 1855.
- 1855
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081920070Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Parker, N. H. Iowa as it is in 1855) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Iowa as it is in 1856; a gazetteer for citizens, and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa. By Nathan H. Parker.
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- Chicago, Ill., Keen & Lee, 1856.
- 1856
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Parker, N. H. Iowa as it is in 1856) Offsite Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin.
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- Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1948.
- 1948-1839
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Plumbe, J. Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NYGB IOWA G 5 Offsite Iowa leaves, six chapters by Clara B. Rouse.
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- Chicago, Illinois printing and binding co., 1891.
- 1891
- 1 Item
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Directory of Carroll County, Iowa : containing a historical sketch, and population tables from the tenth United States census ....
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- Minneapolis, Minn. : Warner & Foote, 1884.
- 1884
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVO (Carroll Co., Iowa) (Warner, G. E. Directory of Carroll county, Iowa) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Galland's Iowa emigrant: containing a map, and general descriptions of Iowa Territory.
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- [Iowa City, Iowa, The Prairie Press, n.d.]
- 184-1840
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Galland, I. Galland's Iowa emigrant) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Iowa handbook, for 1856-7. By Nathan H. Parker ...
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- Boston, J.P. Jewett & Co.; New York, Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman [etc.] 1856-7.
- 1856-1857
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Parker, N. H. Iowa handbook) 1856 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Parker, N. H. Iowa handbook) 1857 Offsite A description of Iowa and its resources: in which every county in the state has separate mention, with valuable tables in regard to agriculture, education, religious denominations, railroads, manufactories, stage routes, &c. being a valuable guide to the immigrant. By Wm. Duane Wilson ...
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- Des Moines, Mills & Company, 1865.
- 1865
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVN (Wilson, W. D. Description of Iowa and its resources) Offsite Iowa, the promised of the prophets : and other patriotic poems. / By Leonard Brown.
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- Des Moines, Iowa : Central Printing & Publishing Co., 1884, c1883.
- 1884-1883
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nc01.ark:/13960/t3pv6w47nItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text NBI (Brown, L. Iowa) Offsite Travels in the two hemispheres; or, Gleanings of a European tour, by George Duffield, D. D. "Land of pyramids," or, A winter in Egypt, together with a "Caravan journey" across "the long desert" by Warren Isham. "Sketches of border life," or, Incidents of a railroad survey across the prairies of Iowa, by W. P. Isham. "Journal leaves of European rambles,"--ocean scenes. By D. Bethune Duffield. Travels in the Southwest,--Life in Arkansas and Texas, by Gilbert Hathaway ...
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- Detroit, Doughty, Straw & Co. [etc.] 1858.
- 1858-1857
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KBA (Magazine of travel. Travels in the two hemispheres) v. 1 Offsite Marches of the dragoons in the Mississippi Valley : an account of marches and activities of the First Regiment United States Dragoons in the Mississippi Valley between the years 1833 and 1850 / Louis Pelzer.
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- Iowa City, Ia. : The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1917.
- 1917
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VWZX (Pelzer, L. Marches of the dragoons in the Mississippi valley) Offsite Atlas of the State of Iowa ; containing a map of each county in the state, a listing of the cities and towns of the state, with their locations, and populations if organized, a state map and other features.
- Cartographic
- Fergus Falls : The Company, c1956.
- 1956
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Cartographic Map Div.+ (Iowa) (Nelson, T. O., Company. Atlas of the State of Iowa. 1956) Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Northern Iowa: containing hints and information of value to emigrants. By a pioneer.
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- Dubuque, W. A. Adams, printer, 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KAT p.v. 125 no. 1-16 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin, taken during a residence of three years in those territories. By John Plumbe, jr.
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- St. Louis, Chambers, Harris & Knapp, 1839.
- 1839
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1839 (Plumbe, J. Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sketches of Iowa, or, The emigrant's guide; containing a correct description of the agricultural and mineral resources, geological features and statistics of the territory of Iowa, a minute description of each county, and of the principal towns and Indian villages ... a view of the rapid increase and future prospects of the people ... traits of Indian character, with sketches of Black Hawk, and others: being the result of much observation and travel dyring a continuous residence of several years, by John B. Newhall ...
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- New York, Published by J.H. Colton, 1841.
- 1841
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1841 (Newhall, J. B. Sketches of Iowa) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Notes on Iowa; with a new and beautifully engraved map, showing the state, county, and township lines, public roads, contemplated railroads, and including the most recent settlements and improvements: by George B. Sargent ...
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- New York, Published by Berford & Co., 1848.
- 1848
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1848 (Sargent, G. B. Notes on Iowa) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KVB+++ (1848) (Sargent, G. B. Notes on Iowa) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A journal of a missionary tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wiskonsin and Michigan; comprising a concise description of different sections of country; health of climate; inducements for emigration with the embarrassments; the religious condition of the people; meetings connected with the mission; and of the great western prairies. By Rev. James L. Scott.
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- Providence, Published by the author, 1843.
- 1843
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1843 (Scott, J. L. Journal of a missionary tour) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Iowa: summer/[and]/fall/here; a poem.
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- West Branch, Cummington Press, 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KP (Cummington) (Geller, R. Iowa) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The geography of the lake Calvin region of Iowa, with emphasis on land utilization, by G. W. Schlesselman.
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- College Station, Tex. [A. & M. press, Agricultural and mechanical college, 1938]
- 1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TB p.v. 1377 no. 1-4 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
New worlds to seek : pioneer Heinrich Lienhard in Switzerland and America, 1824-1846 / translated and annotated by Raymond J. Spahn ; edited by John C. Abbott ; with a foreword by John H. Lienhard IV.
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IW 00-7526 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Iowa : the "great hunting ground" of the Indian; and the "beautiful land" of the white man : information for immigrants.
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- Dubuque, [Iowa] : Taylor, 1860.
- 1860
Palisades and Coulees, the scenic Mississippi valley from Prairie du Chien to Red Wing [microform]/ by Alvin M. Peterson.
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- Onalaska, Wis. : Modern Print. Co., c1948.
- 1948
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZH IAG p.v. 838-846 Offsite The Iowa magazine.
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- Davenport, Iowa : Greater Iowa Association
- 1916-1922
The Iowa magazine section.
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- [Des Moines, Iowa : The Newspaper]
- 1922-19
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DA+ (Iowa magazine section) June 1921-Dec. 1922 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DA+ (Iowa magazine section) 1923 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *DA+ (Iowa magazine section) 1924 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Eenvoudige maar zeer belangrijke brieven uit Noord-Amerika [microform] / door J. Pelmulder...
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- Dockum : A. Schaafsma, 1859.
- 1859
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZH IAG p.v. 496-506 Offsite Rock Island and its surroundings [microform] : in 1853.
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- Davenport [Iowa] : Sanders & Davis, 1854.
- 1854
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVF (Rock Island) (Bross, W. Rock island and its surroundings, in 1853) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IVF (Rock Island) (Bross, W. Rock island and its surroundings, in 1853) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZI-574 no. 1-6 Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Iowa as it is in 1855 [microform] : a gazetteer for citizens and a hand-book for immigrants, embracing a full description of the state of Iowa / by N. Howe Parker.
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- Chicago : Keen and Lee, 1855.
- 1970-1855
Clarence Finster papers, 1853-1928.
- Mixed material
- 1853-1928
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material MssCol 1001 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Western portraiture and emigrants' guide [electronic resource] : a description of Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa : with remarks on Minnesota and other territories / by Daniel S. Curtiss.
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- New York : J.H. Colton, 1852, [c1851]
- 1852-1851
Choice Iowa farming lands [electronic resource] : 1,000,000 acres for sale at low prices on credit or for cash / by the Iowa Railroad Land Company.
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- Cedar Rapids, Iowa : [s.n.], 1870
- 1870
The Iowa handbook for ... with a new and correct map [electronic resource] / by Nathan H. Parker.
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- Boston : J.P. Jewett & Co..
- 18-
Observations on the Wisconsin Territory [electronic resource] : chiefly on that part called the "Wisconsin Land District" : with a map, exhibiting the settled parts of the territory, as laid off in counties by act of the Legislature in 1837 / [by Wm. R. Smith]
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- Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838.
- 1838
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102588697&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplDe Hollanders in Iowa [electronic resource] : brieven uit Pella / van een Gelderschman.
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- Arnhem : D.A. Thieme, 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Check with Staff Not available - Please for assistance.Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin, taken during a residence of three years in those territories [electronic resource] / by John Plumbe, jr.
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- St. Louis : Chambers, Harris & Knapp, 1839.
- 1839
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY103378203&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplA journal of a missionary tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wiskonsin and Michigan [electronic resource] : comprising a concise description of different sections of country : health of climate : inducements for emigration with the embarrassments : the religious condition of the people : meetings connected with the mission : and of the great western prairies / by Rev. James L. Scott.
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- Providence : The author, 1843.
- 1843
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY103377108&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplSketches of Iowa, or, The emigrant's guide [electronic resource] : containing a correct description of the agricultural and mineral resources, geological features and statistics of the territory of Iowa, a minute description of each county ... a view of the rapid increase and future prospects of the people, moral and physical, traits of Indian character, with sketches of Black Hawk, and others ... / by John B. Newhall ...
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- New York : J.H. Colton, 1841.
- 1841
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY103377952&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe British emigrants' "hand book," and guide to the new state of America, particularly Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin [electronic resource] : comprising a general description of the agricultural and commercial facilities,--mineral productions,--relative advantages that different portions present for settlement,--sketches of towns,--neighbourhoods, etc., with practical advice to the emigrant, concerning the different routes, time of sailing, &c. / by J.B. Newhall ...
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- London : Printed and pub. for the author, By T. Stutter, 1844.
- 1844
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY100532003&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplThe states and territories of the great west [electronic resource] : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnestoa [!], Kansas, and Nebraska : their geography, history, advantages, resources, and prospects : comprising their local history, institutions, and laws : giving a table of distances and the most direct routes and modes of conveyance : also, pointing out the best districts for agricultural, commercial, lumbering, and mining operations / with a map and numerous illustrations ...
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- New York ; and Auburn : Miller, Orton, and Mulligan ; Buffalo : E.F. Beadle, 1856.
- 1856
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY103181361&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplGalland's Iowa emigrant [electronic resource] : containing a map, and general descriptions of Iowa Territory.
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- Chillicothe [O.] : W.C. Jones, 1840.
- 1840
- 1 Resource
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