Vandemark Folly Herbert Quick N C Wyeth 9781479411252 Books
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John Herbert Quick (1861-1925) was an American author, whose works include Vandemark's Folly (1922), The Hawkeye (1923), The Invisible Woman (1924), and an autobiography, One Man's Life (1925). Vandemark's Folly tells the story of Jacobus T. Vandemark, whose widowed mother remarried a patent medicine salesman when he was three. His step-father abused both his wife and her son, putting the boy to work in a cotton mill at six until the boy ran away to work on the Erie Canal under the command of a rough but good-hearted canal boat captain.
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Vandemark Folly Herbert Quick N C Wyeth 9781479411252 Books Reviews
ALL quick books are out of print except VandeMark's Folley (reprinted 1987) Best described as historical fiction. (I live near VandeMark's Marsh) Quick blends the hardships and joys of Early Iowa, with vivid pictures of the Iowa prairie. It's adventure, romance, geography, and history all rolled into one. Quicks style of writing is very similar to Mark Twains. Defineetly worth reading.
I found it annoying that the hero was in Monterey County, Iowa, and we all know there is no such county in Iowa. Why not have a fake state as well if you are going to have a fake county? But I admired the hero's morals.
Found the Erie Canal section the most interesting, perhaps because I was unfamiliar with that history. The Iowa section eventually devolved into the typical frontier romance, complete with the stock characters long known in the movies. But the book may have been the prototype. When is SUI bringing the other books back?
Vandemark’s Folly by Herbert Quick is the history of a fictional town in Iowa as told by one of its first settlers. Jacob Vandemark was a hand on the Erie Canal who caught ‘a breath now and then of the prairie winds,’ and eventually allowed the current to carry him to Iowa. During his season-long trip to newly-acquired lands in Iowa from Wisconsin in 1855, Vandemark traveled through Dubuque and along the Old Ridge Road, where he met other travelers, several who became his neighbors.
The first-person narrator of the story, JT Vandemark, grew up in a central New York town east of Syracuse not far from the Erie Canal. So did President President Grover Cleveland (and so did I). Vandemark worked as a teenage driver on the Erie Canal after running away from home, and worked his way up to become a deck hand. A chain of events caused the narrator to head out for Monterey County, IA in 1855.
The mythical county of the novel was based on the actual history of Grundy County IA. The villain of the novel, Buckner Gowdy, had many similarities to an early Iowa settler named George Wells -- one of the first livestock kings of Iowa, and the namesake of the current town of Wellsburg in the Hawkeye state.
One of the most controversial early families in the vicinity of Grundy was the Rainsbarger family of Hardin. To this day, there are still questions on what they did or did not do. The family owned a farm in Hardin but some of its offspring were suspected as horse thieves, counterfeiters, and part of a criminal gang that local residents eventually vowed to exterminate. There are many similarities between the real-life Rainsbargers and the fictional Bushyagers of the Bunker Gang in this novel. The Rainsbargers were believed to be entangled in a real-life crime involving counterfeit money, just as the Bushyagers were believed to be involved in the Chapter 15 incident in the novel.
What makes this novel such a gem is the experiences of the characters in the novel were based on the similar stories of the first real-life settlers of Iowa. Only someone like Herbert Quick could tell a story about a pair of early Iowa settlers who marked out a forty-mile road with stakes so they and other people wouldn’t get lost. Quick lived through some of the fierce prairie snowstorms, as described in the final chapter of the novel, that were much more dangerous than today’s blizzards because there are trees and buildings to block the wind gusts.
One very bloody battle for the county seat of Stevens County Kansas in 1886-1887 was described in The Story of the Outlaw by Emerson Hough. The maneuvers for the county-seat were more typical of the machinations described in Chapter 13 of this novel between Lithopolis and Monterey Center.
I discovered this novel through another book by the aforementioned author Emerson Hough. One of Hough’s best novels was an underrated Western called The Covered Wagon, written in 1922. The book was reissued in 1950, and Clarence Stratton, the editor, included an appendix at the conclusion of the novel of twenty of so books recommended for further study. Vandemark’s Folly was one of those books -- and boy, was that a great recommendation!
Herbert Quick followed-up this blockbuster with The Hawkeye in 1923 and The Invisible Woman in 1924, completing a trilogy of Iowa prairie life. Those two novels are not available for free from Project Gutenberg, but this one is.
The book was given as a gift. It was well received so I am happy with my purchase.
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