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  • A PECULIAR PEOPLE
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    A PECULIAR PEOPLE
    ELMER SCHWIEDER / DOROTHY SCHWIEDER
    Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they exte...

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  • GROWING UP WITH THE TOWN
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    GROWING UP WITH THE TOWN
    DOROTHY HUBBARD SCHWIEDER
    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 unpredi...

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  • BUXTON
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    BUXTON
    DOROTHY SCHWIEDER / JOSEPH HRABA / ELMER SCHWIEDER
    From 1900 until the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland-Buxton, Iowa. Originally established by the Consolidation Coal Company, Buxton was the largest unincorporated coal mining community in Iowa. What made Buxton unique, however, is the fact that the majority of its 5,000 residents were African Americans—a highly unusual racial composition for a st...

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  • IOWA PAST TO PRESENT
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    IOWA PAST TO PRESENT
    DOROTHY SCHWIEDER / THOMAS MORAIN / LYNN NIELSEN
    In Iowa Past to Present, originally published in 1989, Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their extensive knowledge of Iowa’s history with years of experience addressing the educational needs of elementary and middle-school students. Their skillful and accessible narrative brings alive the people and events that populate Iowa’s rich heritage. This revise...

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  • IOWA
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    IOWA
    DOROTHY SCHWIEDER
    In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led—the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans. ...

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