Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland

• By: William G. Gabler
• Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
• Publisher: Afton Historical Society Press
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• ISBN: 189043423X

Illuminating text and stunning photographs of the remnants of nineteenth-century Minnesota farmhouses and homesteads.

The industrialization of the American economy between 1862 and 1893 provided pioneer farm families with the means to realize their dream on the Minnesota prairie. Now the last of their original farmhouses are disappearing. "There was no way to save them," writes author William Gabler, "but their great homeliness and variety could be recorded in photographs.