What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the mid-1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories about living in Coalport and Coal Ridge,  Marion County Iowa

This is a scanned copy on CD of:

DOWN ON THE RIDGE

REMINISCENCES OF THE OLD DAYS IN COALPORT

AND DOWN ON THE RIDGE,   MARION COUNTY, IOWA.

BY

ALFRED B. McCOWN

1909

(145 pages on 1 CD)

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

Table of Contents as Shown:

I.     Reminiscences

II.    The Strenuous Life

III.   Notable Pioneers

IV.    Pioneer Preachers

V.    About the Old Boys

VI.   Ridge Boy Life

VII.  Old Familiar Scenes

VIII. Two Uncle Billies

IX.   Aunt Minerva Reynolds

X.    The Boys and Girls

XI.   Two Pioneer Families

XII.  Reuben and Julia Coffman

XIII. Other Notable Characters