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- Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Iowa Press
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In this unusual blend of chronological and personal history, Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder combines scholarly sources with family memories to create a loving and informed history of Presho, South Dakota, and her family's life there from the time of settlement in 1905 to the mid 1950s.
Schwieder tells the story of this small town in the West River country, with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment, through the activities of her father, Walter Hubbard, and his family of ten children. Walter Hubbard’s experiences as a business owner and town builder and his attitudes toward work, education, and family both reflected and shaped the lives of Presho's inhabitants and the town itself.
While most histories of the Plains focus on farm life, Schwieder writes entirely about small-town society. She uses newspaper accounts, state and county histories, census data, interviews with residents, and the childhood memories of herself and her nine siblings to create an entwined, first-hand social and economic portrait of life on main street from the perspective of its citizens. Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xv
- Descendants Chart
- p. xvii
- Part I. The Early Years
- 1. The First Generation
- pp. 7-32
- 2. A Town Called Presho
- pp. 33-52
- 3. Times of Trial
- pp. 53-77
- PART II. A Personal Perspective
- 4. In My Father’s House
- pp. 81-102
- 5. The Wonderful World of Work
- pp. 103-118
- 6. A Community on the Plains
- pp. 119-144
- 7. The Business on Main Street
- pp. 145-159
- 8. Coming of Age and Leaving Home
- pp. 160-172
Additional Information
ISBN
9781587294150
Related ISBN(s)
9780877458043, 9781587293948
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
56109557
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2002