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List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps xi
Preface xiii
Introduction xv
Editorial Notes xxiii
Chronology of Joseph J. Mersman's Life xxvii
Maps xxxi
Pedigrees: The Mersman, Nulsen, and Creuzbauer Families xli
Prologue: Two Immigrant Families and Their Start in America 1
Jenkins's Boarding House: 8 November 1847-31 December 1847 11
Theater and Circus: 1 January 1848-11 March 1848 31
Music and Dancing: 12 March 1848-29 April 1848 55
The Miami and Erie Canal: 30 April 1848-5 May 1848 75
Cigars and Saloons: 6 May 1848-9 August 1848 85
In Charge of the Store: 10 August 1848-1 October 1848 113
Mosher's Boarding House: 2 October 1848-28 November 1848 131
Farewell to Cincinnati: 17 December 1848-17 February 1849 151
Starting in St. Louis: 18 February 1849-2 August 1849 181
Seeking a Cure: 7 August 1849-19 June 1850 215
Courtship and Marriage: 24 June 1850-11 April 1852 243
Settling Down: 18 July 1853-25 September 1864 263
Epilogue: The Rest of the Story 287
Acknowledgments 301
Recipes and Other Undated Diary Material 305
Annotated List of Persons, Places, and Businesses 313
Sources Cited 349
Index 367
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The Whiskey Merchant's Diary: An Urban Life in the Emerging Midwest
This book is a collection of the author's notes, impressions, vignettes, short essays and verbal fragments (he calls them "sketches"). They were written during 1983-86 as Gilfillian crisscrossed the Great Plains from Canada to Texas (he says he drove 50,000 miles), stopping here and there - sometimes in cities and small towns, sometimes off-road - to take out a sharpened pencil and note what was there to be "noticed."
Gilfillian is a poet with language, and his perceptions are informed by a wide knowledge of music, literature and civilizations past and present. Each piece can be read multiple times, like poems, to wring more meaning and feeling from them. The stories he draws on from Indian history are often compelling. And I especially enjoyed his longer essay on the Nebraska Sandhills, along with thoughts about the Nebraska writers Willa Cather and Mari Sandoz.
Recommended reading for anyone fascinated by the vastness of the high plains and its impact on those who have lived there - in a splendid kind of isolation. Also recommended: Ian Frazier's "Great Plains."
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