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Up a Country Lane Cookbook
For over 50 years Birkby has written a weekly column for her hometown paper containing recipes, stories of friends and family, and her personal philosophy of life. This volume …
Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa's Best-Known Homemaker
In 1949, Iowa farm wife Evelyn Birkby began to write a weekly column entitled ""Up a Country Lane"" for the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel, now called the Valley News. Sixty-three …
In for the Long Haul
An in depth biography of John Ruan, who rose from gravel hauler to multi-millionaire. During his career, Ruan built a diverse business empire based on trucking, banking, real …
We Have All Gone Away
In We Have All Gone Away, his emotionally moving memoir, Curtis Harnack tells of growing up during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm among six siblings and an extended family of …
Take The Next Exit
The Butterflies of Iowa
This beautiful and comprehensive guide, many years in the making, is a manual for identifying the butterflies of Iowa as well as 90 percent of the butterflies in the Plains states. …
The Sawdust Trail
Billy Sunday (1862-1935) was the best-known evangelist in America in the first half of the 20th century. Impoverished midwestern farm kid, professional baseball player, showman …
Midnight Assassin
On the night of December 1, 1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked and killed while he slept at home beside his wife, Margaret. On April 11, 1901, after five days of testimony …
Gentlemen on the Prairie
In the 1880s, the well-connected young Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers, having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie, conceived the idea of …
A Practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction
Thirty-five years and many acres after planting his first patch of prairie flowers, Carl Kurtz is considered one of the deans of the great tallgrass prairie revival. The Prairie …
Of Men and Marshes
Standing with such environmental classics as Loren Eiseley’s The Immense Journey, his friend and mentor Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, and Joseph Wood Krutch’s The Voice of …
A Watershed Year
In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size and the rapidity of their rise ruined farmlands and …