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Informationen zum Autor Curtis Harnack grew up on a farm in Plymouth County in northwest Iowa. Professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College from 1960 to 1971, executive director of Yaddo from 1971 to 1987, and president of the School of American Ballet from 1992 to 1997, he currently lives in New York City and still owns part of the family farm. In addition to The Attic: A Memoir , Gentlemen on the Prairie, and We Have All Gone Away , he is the author of, among others, Persian Lions, Persian Lambs ; Limits of the Land ; Love and Be Silent ; and The Work of an Ancient Hand . Klappentext 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 enticing sons of Britain's upper classes to pursue the life of the landed gentry on these fertile acres. "Yesterday a wilderness, today an empire" their bizarre experiment, which created a colony for people "of the better class" who were not in line to inherit land but whose fathers would set them up in farming, flourished in Le Mars, Iowa (and later in Pipestone, Minnesota), with over five hundred youths having a go at farming. In "Gentlemen on the Prairie," Curtis Harnack tells the remarkable story of this quite unusual chapter in the settling of the Midwest. Zusammenfassung In the 1880s! Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers! having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie! conceived the idea of enticing sons of Britain's upper classes to pursue the life of the landed gentry on these fertile acres. In Gentlemen on the Prairie! Curtis Harnack tells the remarkable story of this quite unusual chapter in the settling of the Midwest.
