Old Rail Fence Corners
Minnesota Pioneer Recollections, Frontier Women's History, and Nineteenth-Century Stories of Homesteading and CommunityBy Various
Length11h 29m
About this audiobook
Old Rail Fence Corners is a gathering of regional historical sketches that preserves the stories, personalities, customs, and turning points of an earlier American landscape. Its title evokes the informal places where neighbors exchanged news, and the book's method similarly joins documented history with anecdote, reminiscence, and local lore. Rather than presenting the past as a seamless national narrative, these pieces recover it through particular communities and ordinary lives, giving the volume the character of a literary scrapbook and an archival mosaic. Its accessible, anecdotal prose reflects the traditions of local history, popular antiquarian writing, and oral remembrance, while its cumulative detail makes it valuable as a record of social memory and place. The designation "Various" is especially appropriate: this is a collective work shaped by multiple observers, narrators, and compilers rather than by a single authorial voice. The contributors' interest appears rooted in the preservation of rapidly vanishing memories, at a moment when modernization threatened to erase the material and communal traces of earlier settlement. Their attention to names, incidents, landscapes, and inherited stories reveals an authorial purpose both documentary and commemorative. Readers interested in regional history, folklore, genealogy, and the literary representation of community will find Old Rail Fence Corners rewarding. It is particularly suited to those who value the texture of everyday experience alongside formal historical events. The book invites leisurely reading, but also rewards close consultation as a source of cultural memory and local identity.
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GenreHistory
Length11 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Border and the Buffalo (Annotated)
2SECOND EDITION
3AUTHENTIC INCIDENTS GLEANED FROM The Old Settlers By The Book Committee 1914
4In Memoriam
5Explanatory
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6The Reason
7Minneapolis
8(Mrs. J. T. Morris)
9Mr. Eli Pettijohn—1841.
10Mrs. Missouri Rose Pratt—1843.
11Mrs. Gideon Pond—1843, Ninety years old.
12Captain Stephen Hanks—1844, Ninety-four years old.
13Mr. Caleb Dorr—1847, Ninety years old.
14Mrs. Mahlon Black—1848.
15Mr. James McMullen—1849.
16Mrs. James McMullen—1849.
17Dr. Lysander P. Foster—1849.
18Mrs. Silas Farnham—1849.
19General William G. Le Duc—1850, Ninety-two years old.
20Mr. Reuben Robinson—1850.
21Mrs. Samuel B. Dresser—1850.
22Mrs. Rufus Farnham—1850.
23Captain John Van der Horck—1850.
24Mrs. James Pratt—1850.
25Mrs. Mary Harrison—1850.
26Mr. William W. Ellison—1850.
27Mr. D. E. Dow—1850.
28Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford—1850.
29Mrs. Richard Chute—1851.
30Mr. Charles Bohanon—1851.
31Mr. Austin W. Farnsworth—1851.
32Mr. Elijah Nutting—1852.
33Mr. Charles Rye—1853.
34Mr. James M. Gillespie—1853.
35Miss Nancy Gillespie—1853.
36Mr. Isaac Layman—1853.
37Mrs. Mary Weeks—1853, Ninety years old.
38Mrs. E. A. Merrill—1853, Minneapolis.
39Mrs. Martha Thorne—1854.
40Mrs. Nancy Lowell—1854.
41Mrs. William Dow—1854, Little Falls.
42Mrs. William J. White—1854.
43Mrs. Paulina Starkloff—1854.
44Mrs. Anna E. Balser—1855, Ninety-four years old.
45Mrs. Mary E. Dowling—1855.
46Mrs. Robert Anderson—1854.
47Mrs. Wilder—1854.
48Mr. Warren Wakefield—1854.
49Mrs. Leroy Sampson—1854.
50Mrs. Anna Simmons Apgar—1854.
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