Fifty Years in Iowa
Burrows, J. M. D.
Excerpt from Fifty Years in Iowa: Being Personal Reminiscences of J. M. D. Burrows, Concerning the Men and Events, Social Life, Industrial Interests, Physical Development, and Commercial Progress of Davenport and Scott County, During the Period From 1838 to 1888An Unparalleled Wheat Crop in Iowa, Buying It All In at Seemingly Exorbitant Prices, Luck Favors the S peou lator, t e Investment of Sebastopol Causes Enormous Profits, in Sixty Days, E...
