LeRoy G. Pratt (1910–2007)
Autore di Discovering historic Iowa
Opere di LeRoy G. Pratt
Discovering Historic Iowa 1972 1 copia
From cabin to capital 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1910-03-26
- Data di morte
- 2007-06-24
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- Burlington, Iowa, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Utenti
- 37
- Popolarità
- #390,572
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
The book's basic problems could have been solved structurally; a great deal of the dates and figures could and should have been presented tabularly. These tables are appended after the text, but that's no help at all, except perhaps for the researcher; general readers still have to wade through all this. A table which included the dates and, if available, the costs, of all the courthouses as well as the dates of various calamities (usually fires, lightning strikes, or burglaries) would have eased reading. The author spends considerable time on county seat contests, and rightfully so, but these would also read more easily with a table to anchor the reader's progress. It's undoubtedly difficult to procure photographs of the older courthouses, but coverage is spotty here, and more of them would have added a lot.
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