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TABLE 0F CONTENTS
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PAGE |
| List of Illustrations |
v |
| Publisher's Note |
viii |
| Preface |
x |
| Foreword-by the Author. |
xiv |
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Reminiscences of Newcastle, Iowa, 1848
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Chapter
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| I. Making the Trip to Iowa |
1 |
| II. Permanent Location and Early Enterprise.
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17 |
| III. Cabin Building-Beds |
29 |
| IV. Illumination-Cabin Conditions |
39 |
| V. Preparation for Farming |
50 |
| VI. Hunting and Trapping-Weapons |
57 |
| Chapter VI, cont. |
75 |
| VII. Early Professional Men |
87 |
| VIII. Indian Reciprocity |
94 |
| IX. Platting of Newcastle |
103 |
| X. Modes of Traveling |
128 |
| XI. Home and Field Occupation |
135 |
| XII. Accidents, Births, Weddings, Deaths |
154 |
| XIII. Women's Work |
169 |
| XIV. Home Manufacture |
202 |
| XV. Unusual Weather Conditions |
213 |
| XVI. Medicinal Preparations |
226 |
| XVII. Charms, Signs and Other Remedies
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240 |
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Appendices
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I. Biographical-Wilson Brewer
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255 |
| II. In Loving Memory of My Father-Poem |
259 |
| III. Brassfield Version of Lott- Indian
Tragedies. |
260 |
| IV. Authors Note on Iowa Indian Troubles |
272 |
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V. Poems by—Harriet
M. Bonebright-Closz
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| The Iowa Log Cabin |
284 |
| The State of Iowa |
289 |
| The Cat-Hole in the Door |
291 |
| Loitering Amid the Old Scenes |
293 |
| The Old Brass Candle Molds |
296 |
| The Linsey-Woolsey Dress |
301 |
| The Old Grindstone |
305 |
| The Dugout |
307 |
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| Wilson Brewer, Sarah Brewer-Bonebright,
Margaret Moore-Brewer |
vi |
| Harriet Bonebright-Closz, Sarah Bonebright
Brewer |
vii |
| Iowa Immigrants |
xviii |
| Hunting Dogs |
10 |
| Royal Stag |
12 |
| Hunting Shelter, and a Day's Kill-1849 |
16 |
| Boulder Mill Burrs-Log Canoe |
19 |
| Frow-Maul-Broadax |
30 |
| Fireplace |
34 |
| Cradle-Bed |
37 |
| Types of Illuminants |
41 |
| Weapons and Hunting Accessories |
59 |
| Wolves |
62 |
| Game and Other Animals |
71 |
| Fur Bearing Animals |
81 |
| Utensils for the Cabin |
85 |
| Star-Point, a Pottawattamie Portrait |
93 |
| Tools and Utensils for Farming |
131 |
| Jerking Venison |
145 |
| Soap-Making Utensils |
182 |
| Tools and Utensils for Spinning and Weaving |
186 |
| Tools and Utensils for Spinning and Weaving |
189 |
| Tools and Utensils for Spinning and Weaving |
191 |
| Oldtime Loom |
196 |
| Grindstone |
209 |
| Last Herd of Deer, 1853 |
217 |
| Iowa Log Cabin |
254 |
| Major Brassfield at the Age of 83 |
263 |
