Europeans who considered emigrating to the American frontier in the nineteenth century could find little information about the real conditions they would face. And most of what was available the broadsides and advertisements of land companies, speculators, and promoters was highly suspect. Edwin A. Curley s 1875 account offered something different.
Edwin A. Curley was an English journalist writing for The Field: The Country Gentleman s Newspaper, a London weekly, at a time when the advice to migrating British farmers and farm laborers was that they would find their best chances in...
Europeans who considered emigrating to the American frontier in the nineteenth century could find little information about the real conditions they wo...
