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title	:	Salt Lantern : Traces of an American Family American Land and Life Series
author	:	Morgan, William Towner.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877456143
print isbn13	:	9780877456148
ebook isbn13	:	9781587291593
language	:	English
subject	Morgan, William Towner--Family, Pipestone County (Minn.)--Biography, Goodhue County (Minn.)--Biography, North Dakota--Biography, Holliday family, Brown family, Morgan family, Stanard family, Vernacular architecture--Minnesota--Pipestone County.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	CT275.M624A3 1997eb
ddc	:	977.6/1405/0922
subject	:	Morgan, William Towner--Family, Pipestone County (Minn.)--Biography, Goodhue County (Minn.)--Biography, North Dakota--Biography, Holliday family, Brown family, Morgan family, Stanard family, Vernacular architecture--Minnesota--Pipestone County.

Page i Salt Lantern The American Land & Life Series Edited by Wayne Franklin

Page iii Salt Lantern Traces of an American Family William Towner Morgan UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1997 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design by Richard Hendel http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Morgan, William Towner. Salt lantern: traces of an American family / by William Towner Morgan. p. cm.(The American land and life series) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87745-613-5, ISBN 0-87745-614-3 (paper) 1. Morgan, William TownerFamily. 2. Pipestone County (Minn.) Biography. 3. Goodhue County (Minn.)Biography. 4. North DakotaBiography. 5. Holliday family. 6. Brown family. 7. Morgan family. 8. Stannard family. 9. Vernacular architecture MinnesotaPipestone County. I. Title. II. Series. CT275.M624A3 1997 977.6' 1405 ' 0922dc21 [B] 97-17333 97 98 99 00 01 02 C 5 4 3 2 1 97 98 99 00 01 02 P 5 4 3 2 1

Page v For my aunt Annie Belle Brown Winters (1883-1971) my sister Courtenay Morgan-Forman and my niece Diane Paterson

Page vii Contents Foreword by Wayne Franklin ix Prologue xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction xxi 1 The Spaces and Places of My Childhood 1 2 My Journey to Field Head, England 22 3 My Journey to Ecclefechan, Scotland 29 4 The Hallidays' Journey to America 36 5 My Journey to Checkerberry Village, Vermont 42 6 The Wisconsin Experience and the Landscape of War 50 7 The Stannards of Taylors Falls, Minnesota 57 8 The Hallidays, Hollidays, and Browns of Goodhue County, Minnesota 63 9 The Browns of Pipestone County, Minnesota 69 10 North Dakota Pioneers: The Hallidays, Hollidays, and Stramblads 81 11 My Journey to Glencolumbkille, Ireland 94 12 My Father's Story 103 Conclusion and Family Album 115 Appendix 1. "Weighed in the Balance," 131 Appendix 2. The Architecture of a Craftsman Bungalow 136 Appendix 3. Gen. George J. Stannard, Forgotten Hero of the Civil War 138 Appendix 4. "Fifteen Months on a North Dakota Claim,"

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