The Hawkeye*
He Read "The New York Weekly "
The Story. This is the story of the education of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye—how he and the State of Iowa grew up together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen—a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades...
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