Vandemarks Folly

Download or read book Vandemark's Folly written by Herbert Quick and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick is about the life and adventures of an Iowan turnip farmer from New York. Excerpt: "The work of writing the history of this township--I mean Vandemark Township, Monterey County, State of Iowa--has been turned over to me. I have been asked to do this I guess because I was the first settler in the township; it was named after me; I live on my farm--the oldest farm operated by the original settler in this part of the country; I know the history of these thirty-six square miles of land and also of the wonderful swarming of peoples which made the prairies over; and the agent of the Excelsior County History..."