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Excerpt from Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: Irwin, Iowa Traveling by train or auto from Chicago to. Omaha, or from Minneapolis to K sas City one sees many toms and villages. Some of them. Are larger than. Irwin, Iowa and some are; smaller. But. They are so much alike that he may think. They, are characterized by. An: awful sameness. If; on the Great western railroad and. Observing closely, he sees th-e'sigr. Irwin. At that point his schedule tells him he is. 450 miles from: Chicago. And 60 miles from Omaha. The elevation is.1210 feet. 'ihe population of the. Village, 345. He too that he. Is 12 miles from Harlan, the county seat of: Shelby County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.