Vandemark's Folly

Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick is about the life and adventures of an Iowan turnip farmer from New York. Excerpt: «The work of writing the history of this township–I mean Vandemark Township, Monterey County, State of Iowa–has been turned over to me. I have been asked to do this I guess because I was the first settler in the township; it was named after me; I live on my farm–the oldest farm operated by the original settler in this part of the country; I know the history of these thirty-six square miles of land and also of the wonderful swarming of peoples which made the prairies over; and the agent of the Excelsior County History…»