Project Gutenberg 2004-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 86 Quick, Herbert 1861 1925 Quick, John Herbert Vandemark's Folly Reading ease score: 83.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Vandemark's Folly" by Herbert Quick is a novel written in the early 20th century. It tells the story of Jacobus Teunis Vandemark, referred to as J.T. Vandemark, who reflects on his experiences as the first settler in Vandemark Township, Iowa. The narrative is a blend of personal history and the broader story of settlement in the American West, exploring themes of hardship, resilience, and community. At the start of the novel, J.T. Vandemark is introduced as a narrator tasked with writing the history of Vandemark Township. He describes his skepticism about a commercial history project and the deceptive agent trying to profit from local pride. Encouraged by his granddaughter Gertrude to continue his history, he reminisces about his beginnings, life under the influence of his cruel stepfather John Rucker, and his arduous childhood in factories. The beginning establishes Vandemark's identity and sets the stage for his journey, detailing the pivotal events that shaped his life as he navigates both personal challenges and the ongoing movement of settlers toward the West. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Frontier and pioneer life -- Iowa -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 739881 726964 2024-10-05T16:31:32.788662 2023-10-06T04:22:44.380017 text/html text/html 720238 2020-12-14T18:48:34 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 404108 2020-12-14T18:48:35 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 482474 2024-10-05T16:31:44.933120 application/epub+zip 497135 2024-10-05T16:31:36.430669 application/epub+zip 368115 2024-10-05T16:31:34.659677 application/epub+zip 720912 2024-10-05T16:31:51.631069 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 649379 2024-10-05T16:31:43.530121 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 582705 2022-09-06T19:09:11.893481 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 697721 697636 2024-10-05T16:31:31.153719 2023-10-06T04:22:42.939013 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 699143 2020-12-14T18:48:34 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 270020 2020-12-14T18:48:35 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 699134 2020-12-14T18:48:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 269989 2020-12-14T18:48:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21338 2024-10-05T16:31:51.766064 application/rdf+xml 15275 2024-10-05T16:31:35.226646 image/jpeg 3887 2024-10-05T16:31:34.940654 image/jpeg 476624 2024-10-05T16:31:32.856681 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia