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Last night, Larry sent an archive.org link to Overland magazine, published in California in 1889. It's decidedly west coast in veiwpoint, but there are broader issues covered too.
What I find fascinating in The Overland and other publications like it are the contemporary views of things we only heard about in school as "history". Think about it: in the context of the Janson family, 1889 was only 6 years after they arrived in Buckman. Anton was now 9, and big brother Wendelin was 17. The last sibling of the family, Rose, was born in October, 1889.
By then, California had been a state for 40 years (and Minnesota, 31 years). There were a few telephones then, and the railroads were coast-to-coast since 1869. People still manufactured and sold snake oil. It was 24 years after the Civil War.
California was admitted to the union as a decidedly non-slave state, but the ongoing turmoil in the south was still an issue all over the country. Here's an article from the Overland that describes one contemporary version of those continuing problems: The South Revisited. It's interesting to note his take on what the problems were, and his proposed solutions.
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