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Statewide Books
These are just some of
the books I own or have access to.
Books marked "TEXT only" are books
which I have access to the text only and not to any graphics or
pictures.
Some books are only available to me on microfilm or as photocopies,
therefore the graphics and pictures are not very good. Email me and I
will let you know before you commit to research fees.
Abandoned Towns, Villages and Post
Offices of Iowa by David C, Mott /
reprinted from Annals of Iowa 1930-32, 179 pgs. #
Administration of Iowa : a study
in centralization, The by Harold Martin
Bowman / New York: unknown, 1903, 222 pgs.
Augustus Caesar Dodge : a study in
American politics by Louis Pelzer /
Iowa City, Iowa: unknown, 1909, 376 pgs.
Autumn Notes in Iowa by
Selden Lincoln Whitcomb / New York : The Torch Press, 1914, 192 pgs. #
Between Two Rivers
by Allan Carpenter. / Mason City: Klipto, 1940.(TEXT ONLY)
(Table of contents)
Biographies and Portraits of the
Progressive Men of Iowa : leaders in
business, politics and the professions : together with an original and
authentic history of the state / Des Moines: Conaway & Shaw, 1899,
1210 pgs.
Bomb - 1921, The (Iowa State
College)-1921-Iowa State College-#
British in Iowa, The -1922-The
State Historical Society of Iowa-# I
have placed this book online!
Catholic Sponsors of Iowa, The
by M. M. Hoffmann/ Dubuque, Iowa: Issued by the Iowa Catholic Historical
Society, 1929, 19 pgs.
Centennial Northwest, The
: an illustrated history of the Northwest, being a full and complete
civil, political and military history of this great section of the
United States, from its earliest settlement to the present time :
comprising a general and condensed history of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, etc., including Kansas and
Nebraska, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of the great
Northwest by Charles R. Tuttle / Madison, Wis.: Inter-state Book Co.,
1876, 656 pgs.
Constitutions of Iowa
By Benjamin Shambaugh. / Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1934.
(TEXT ONLY) Table
of Contents
Cyrus Clay Carpenter and Iowa
Politics, 1854-1898 by Mildred Throne.
/ Iowa: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1974, 302 pgs. #
Debates of the Constitutional
Convention of the state of Iowa, assembled at Iowa City, Monday, January
19, 1857, The : being a full and
complete report of the debates and proceedings, by authority of the
convention, accompanied, for purposes of reference, by a copious index
of subjects, and remarks of members thereon / Davenport: Luse, Lane
& Co., 1857, 1218 pgs.
Decisive Episodes in Western
history : an address delivered at Iowa
City, Iowa, before the State Historical Society of Iowa on February
twenty-first, nineteen hundred fourteen by Laenas G. Weld / Iowa City:
State Historical Society of Iowa, 1914, 45 pgs.
Ensign & Thayer's
travellers' guide through the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin : with railroad, canal,
stage, and steamboat routes, accompanied with a new map of the above
states. / New York: Ensign, Bridgman & Fanning, 1855, 43 pgs.
Ex-Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Living in Iowa 1886-1886-State of
Iowa-#
Fighting for Air "Under Lake
Ice"--James M. Morrissey-#
Fragments of the debates of the
Iowa Constitutional Conventions of 1844 and 1846
: along with press comments and other materials on the constitutions of
1844 and 1846 / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1900,
414 pgs.
Galland's Iowa Emigrant
: containing a map, and general descriptions of Iowa Territory. by Isaac
Galland / Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1840 (1950
reprint), 52 pgs.#-HQ-TO
Glimpse of Iowa in 1846 by
John B. Newhall. State Historical Society of Iowa, 1957. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Golden Northwest, The
: a historical, statistical and descriptive account of northern
Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Dakota, Montana and Manitoba by
Goldsmith B. West / Chicago: Rollins Pub. Co., 1878, 131 pgs.
Government of Iowa, The
by Frank E. Horack / New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911, 232 pgs.
Governors of Iowa by
Jacob A. Swisher, Mason City, Iowa: Klipto, 1946. (TEXT ONLY)
Hand Book of Iowa, A,
or, The discovery, settlement, geographical location, topography,
natural resources, geology, climatology, commercial facilities,
agricultural productiveness, manufacturing advantages, educational
interests, healthfulness, government, and the excellence of the social
and moral life of the state of Iowa by Charles Ashton / Dubuque: Iowa
Columbian Commission, 1893, 166 pgs.
Hawkeye Lore by Bernice
Reida. Pella, Iowa: Pella Pub., 1963 Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Hawkeye State - A History for
Home and School by Thomas P. Christenses. Iowa City: Athens Press,
1956. Table of Contents
(TEXT ONLY)
Hawkeye Tales by Hubert
Moeller. Radcliffe: Self-published, 1953. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Henry Dodge
by Louis Pelzer / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1911, 251 pgs.
Historical Sketches of Iowa
Baptists. Burlington, Iowa: Burdette Co., 1886, 537 pgs.
History and Civil Government of
Iowa : for the use of normal and public
schools, teachers institutes, and private instruction by George Chandler
/ Chicago: A. Flanagan, 1885, c1884, 172 pgs.
History and Civil Government of
Iowa by Homer H. Seerley / New York:
American Book Co., c1908, 390 pgs.
History of Economic Legislation in
Iowa by Ivan L. Pollock / Iowa City,
Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1918, 397 pgs.
History of Iowa: From the Earliest
Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century - Four Volumes-1903-The
Century History Company TO-#
Table of Contents: Volume 1 -- Volume
2 -- Volume 3 -- Volume
4
History of the Constitutions of
Iowa by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh /
Des Moines, Iowa: Historical Dept. of Iowa, 1902, 361 pgs.
History of the People of Iowa
by Cyrenus Cole. Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1921 Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
History of the Spirit Lake
Massacre by Abagail Gardner Sharp. Des Moines: Mills & Company,
1885. Table of Contents
(TEXT ONLY)
Hollanders of Iowa by Jacob
Van Der Zee.# I have
placed this online!
I Remember I Remember: A Book of
Recollections-1936-The Torch Press-#
Illustrative Maps of the Boundary
History of Iowa by Benjamin Franklin
Shambaugh / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1904, 14
pgs.
Iowa - Beautiful Land by
Jessie Dwelle. Mason City: Klipto, 1943. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa - Land Across the River by
Don D. Brown. Des Moines: Wallace-Homestead, 1963. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa - Old and New by John
E. Briggs. Lincoln: University Publishing, 1939. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa and the Counties of Iowa
by Remely Glass. Mason City: Klipto, 1940 (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa and the Nation-1899-A.
Flanagan-#
Iowa and the Rebellion by
Lurton Denham Ingersoll, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1866. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa Colonels and Their
Regiments by A. A. Stuart. Chicago, Mills and Co., 1865. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa Day for the Public Schools of
the State by B. W. Hoadley / Des
Moines: The Dept., 1916, 160 pgs.
Iowa Handbook for 1856 : with a
new and correct map, The by Nathan H.
Parker / Boston: J.P. Jewett and Co., 1856, 188 pgs.
Iowa in the Civil War by
the Iowa Bicentennial Commission. Des Moines, Iowa, 1961. (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa in Times of War
by Jacob A. Swisher / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1943, 395 pgs. Table of Contents
HQ-TO
Iowa Indians: A Brief History
by Thomas P. Christensen. Iowa City: Athens Press, 1954. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa Official Register - 1900-1900-Secretary
of State-#
Iowa Official Register - 1906-1906-Secretary
of State-#
Iowa Official Register - 1939-40-1940-Secretary
of State-#
Iowa Official Register -
1947-1948-1948-State of Iowa-#
Iowa Official Register -
1951-1952-1952-Secretary of State-#
Iowa Official Register -
1957-1958-1958-Secretary of State-#
Iowa Pioneer Foundations (2
volumes) by George F. Parker / Iowa
City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1940, 1103 pgs. Table
of Contents HQ-OT
Iowa State Almanac and Statistical
Register, The : a facsimile
reproduction, slightly enlarged, of an 1860 almanac, reprinted with an
introduction / Iowa City, Iowa: The Society?, 1963, 90 pgs.
Iowa State Gazetteer
: embracing descriptive and historical sketches of counties, cities,
towns and villages, which include much valuable information respecting
the agriculture, manufactories, commerce, educational and religious
institutions, population and history of the state : to which is added a
shippers' guide and a classified business directory of the
manufacturers, merchants, professional and tradesmen of Iowa, together
with their business address by James T. Hair / Chicago: Bailey &
Hair, 1865, 803 pgs.
Iowa State Geography by
Alison E. Aitchison. New York: Ginn 1921. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa Stories by Clarence R.
Aurner. Iowa City: Clio Press, 1923. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Iowa Through the Years
by Cyrenus Cole / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1940, 547 pgs. Table of
Contents TO-#-HQ
Iowa Welcomes You to the
Hospitality and Beauties of the "Hawkeye State". Des
Moines: State of Iowa, 1945, 87pgs.
Iowa, die Heimath für Einwanderer
: eine Abhandlung über die Hülfsquellen Iowa's, enthaltend werthvolle
und nützliche Aufklärungen in Betreff des Staates, für Immigranten
und Andere / Des Moines: Druckerei des
"Iowa Staats-anzeiger", 1870, 105 pgs.
Iowa, The First Free State in the
Louisiana Purchase : from its discovery
to the admission of the state into the Union, 1673-1846 by William
Salter / Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1905, 312 pgs. Table
of Contents HQ-TO
Iowa, the Rivers of Her Valleys
by William John Peterson / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of
Iowa, 1941, 381 pgs.
Iowa: A Guide to the Hawkeye
State-1938-The Viking Press-#
Iowa: Its History and Foremost
Citizens (2 Volumes) by John Brigham. Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1918.
Table of Contents (TEXT
ONLY)
Iowa: Land of Many Mills by
Jacob A. Swisher. State Historical Society of Iowa, 1940. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Ioway to Iowa : the genesis of a
corn and Bible commonwealth by Irving
Berdine Richman / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1931, 485 pgs. Table of Contents
TO-HQ
James Harlan by
Johnson Brigham / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1913, 414 pgs.
John Chambers
by John Carl Parish/ Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1909, 292 pgs.
Legislation of the Forty-Fifth
General Assembly of Iowa, regular session, The
by Jacob A. Swisher / Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1933,
178 pgs.
Legislation of the Forty-Fifth
General Assembly of Iowa, extra session, The
by Jacob A. Swisher / Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1934,
127 pgs.
List of Ex-soldiers, Sailors and
Marines Living in Iowa / Des Moines:
G.E. Roberts, state printer, 1886, 782 pgs. #-HQ
Making of Iowa by Henry
Sabin. Chicago: A. Flanigan, 1900. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Memorial and Biographical record
of Iowa, A / Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co.,
1896, 1262 pgs.
Men and Events of Forty years
: autobiographical reminiscences of an active career from 1850 to 1890
by Josiah Busnell Grinnell / Boston: D. Lothrop Co., c1891, 444 pgs.
Men of Iowa
: a collection of portraits of representative men in business,
professional and official life in the great state of Iowa. / Des Moines,
Iowa: Iowa Historical Co., c1902, 430 pgs.
Military Handbook by
Winfield Scott. Philadelphia: Beadles, 1861. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Minutes: Fifty-Fourth Session of
Upper Iowa Annual Conference. Methodist Episcopal Church, Mason City,
Iowa September 29 to October 4, 1909 -
J.R.A. Hanner, Publisher #
My First Eighty Years: Round the
Clook-1966--#
My Native Land by James Cox
- 1895 - Blair Publishing Co. (This is a nationwide book, but very
interesting) #
My Uncle Frank (Frank B. Steele):
his memoirs as told to his nephew Clarke W. Thornton
(no index) #
Narrative History of the People
of Iowa, (2 Volumes) by Edgar R. Harlan. Chicago: American
Historical Society, 1931. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Officers of the Army and Navy
(volunteer) who served in the Civil War
/ Philadelphia: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1893, 419 pgs.
Old World Iowans by Elanine
J. Anderson. Mason City: Klipto, 1949. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Our Iowa - Its Beginnings and
Growth by Hubert L. Moeller. New York: Newson, 1938. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Patterns and Perspectives in Iowa
History-1973-The Iowa State University
Press-#
Pioneering on Iowa Prairies
by Russell G. Nye. Agency: Methodist Church, 1960. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Pioneers : A Pageant of Early
Iowa, The by Bruce E. Mahan / Iowa
City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1927, 14 pgs.
Pioneers and Profits: Land
Speculation on the Iowa-1968-The Iowa
State University Press-#
Poor Relief Legislation in Iowa-1914-The
State Historical Society of Iowa-#
Recollections and Sketches of
Notable Lawyers and Public Men of Early Iowa
: belonging to the first and second generations, with anecdotes and
incidents illustrative of the times by Edward Holcomb Stiles / Des
Moines: Homestead Pub. Co., 1916, 993 pgs.
Recollections of Field Service
With the Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers,
or, What I saw in the army : embracing accounts of marches, battles,
sieges and skirmishes in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Alabama, Florida, Texas and along the northern border of Mexico by
Chester Barney / Davenport: Printed for the author at the Gazette Job
Rooms, 1865, 326 pgs.
Reminiscences of Early
Congregationalism in Iowa by Julius A.
Reed / Grinnell, Iowa: Printed at the Herald Office, 1885, 19 pgs.
Report of the Second Reunion of
the Tri-State Old Settlers' Association of Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa
: held Wednesday, September 30th, 1885, in Keokuk, Iowa. / Keokuk, Iowa:
R.B. Ogden & Son Print. and Binding Co., 1885, 112 pgs.
Robert Lucas
by John Carl Parish/ Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1907, 370 pgs.
Roster and Record of Iowa
Troops in the Rebellion (6 Volumes) by Guy E. Logan. State of Iowa,
1911. Table of Contents
(TEXT ONLY)
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood
by Dan Elbert Clark / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1917, 476 pgs.
Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin
by John Plumbe / Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1948, 126
pgs.
Some Historic Markers in Iowa
by Susie Webb Wright / Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa,
1943, 132 pgs.
States and Territories of the
Great West, The : including Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,
Kansas and Nebraska : their geography, history, advantages, resources,
and prospects, comprising their local history, institutions, and laws :
giving a table of distances, and the most direct routes and modes of
conveyance, also, pointing out the best districts for agricultural,
commercial, lumbering, and mining operations : with a map and numerous
illustrations by Jacob Ferris / York: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan ;,
1856, 366 pgs.
Stories of Iowa for Boys and
Girls by Bruce E. Mahan. New York: Macmillan, 1929. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Story of Iowa, (2 Volumes)
by W. L. Wallace. Mason City: Klipto, 1931. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Story of Iowa: A Children’s
History by Thomas Christensen. Cedar Falls: Holst, 1931. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Story of the Indian : A Pageant of
Early Iowa, The by Bruce E. Mahan /
Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1928, 14 pgs.
Tell a Tale of Iowa by Don
D. Brown. Des Moines: Wallace Homestead, 1965. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Territorial Governors of the Old
Northwest : a study in territorial administration, The
by Dwight Gaylord McCarty / Iowa City, Iowa: State Historical Society of
Iowa, 1910, 210 pgs.
This is the Place - Iowa by
Margaret L. Posten. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1971. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
True Tales of Iowa by Edith
Rule. Mason City: Yelland & Hanes, 1932. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Undying Loyalty by Edna
McElray. Des Moines: Civil War Centennial Commission, 1961. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Valley and the Shadow, The-1868-Russell
Brothers-#
Western Tourist and Emigrant's
guide, The : with a compendious
gazetteer of the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri, and the territories of Wisconsin and Iowa : being an accurate
and concise description of each state, territory and county, and an
alphabetical arrangement of every city, town, post village or hamlet,
the county in which they are situated, their distance from the capital
of the state, and from Washington city : also, describing all the
principal stage routs [sic], canals, rail-roads, and the distances
between the towns : accompanied with a correct map, showing the lines of
the United States' surveys by J. Calvin Smith / New York: J.H. Colton,
1840, 184 pgs.
Years of Valor by Edith W.
McElray. Iowa Civil War Centennial, 1969. Table
of Contents (TEXT ONLY)
Your Northwest Iowa
Cookbook - "With best Wishes From Congressman Wiley Mayne"
#
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