Project Gutenberg 2004-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 299 Quick, Herbert 1861 1925 Quick, John Herbert Vandemark's Folly Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Vandemark's Folly" by Herbert Quick is a novel written in the early 20th century. It tells the story of Jacobus Teunis Vandemark, referred to as J.T. Vandemark, who reflects on his experiences as the first settler in Vandemark Township, Iowa. The narrative is a blend of personal history and the broader story of settlement in the American West, exploring themes of hardship, resilience, and community. At the start of the novel, J.T. Vandemark is introduced as a narrator tasked with writing the history of Vandemark Township. He describes his skepticism about a commercial history project and the deceptive agent trying to profit from local pride. Encouraged by his granddaughter Gertrude to continue his history, he reminisces about his beginnings, life under the influence of his cruel stepfather John Rucker, and his arduous childhood in factories. The beginning establishes Vandemark's identity and sets the stage for his journey, detailing the pivotal events that shaped his life as he navigates both personal challenges and the ongoing movement of settlers toward the West. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.6 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Frontier and pioneer life -- Iowa -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 739867 2025-10-05T13:35:21.758964 text/html 698859 2024-10-28T19:14:28 text/html 482501 2025-10-05T13:35:32.638399 application/epub+zip 497103 2025-10-05T13:35:25.029923 application/epub+zip 368074 2025-10-05T13:35:23.443915 application/epub+zip 720740 2025-10-05T13:35:38.565410 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 649417 2025-10-05T13:35:31.381385 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 582705 2022-09-06T19:09:11.893481 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 697608 2025-10-05T13:35:20.167003 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 677895 2024-10-28T19:14:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15973 2025-10-05T13:35:38.697354 application/rdf+xml 15275 2025-10-05T13:35:23.950893 image/jpeg 3887 2025-10-05T13:35:23.698901 image/jpeg 476615 2025-10-05T13:35:21.820986 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia