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History of Iowa articles from the
Des Moines Register

Index of Articles in that I have the TEXT ONLY.


  1. Iowa Before 1832 - Discovering the Mississippi
  2. Iowa Before the Time of Man
  3. When Iowa Was the Red Man’s Land
  4. Iowa and the First White Men
  5. Iowa Owned by the Europeans
  6. Iowa Bought by Uncle Sam
  7. Iowa Visited by Lewis and Clark
  8. When Pike Explored the Mississippi
  9. Black Hawk’s Many Battles in Iowa
  10. Great Indian Chiefs of Iowa
  11. How the Indian Tribes Lost Iowa
  12. First Settlers in Iowa
  13. Early Forts in Iowa
  14. Iowa’s Early Government
  15. Iowa-Missouri Boundary Quarrel
  16. Iowa and the Mormons
  17. Iowa’s State Capitals
  18. History of Iowa’s Counties
  19. Iowa’s Early Schools
  20. John Brown and the Underground Railway
  21. Iowa in the Civil War I
  22. Iowa in the Civil War II
  23. Spirit Lake Massacre
  24. Iowa’s Early Railroads
  25. Iowa’s Early Roads
  26. Iowa’s Early Newspapers
  27. Iowa’s Indians of Today
  28. Iowa as a Manufacturing State
  29. Iowa’s Part in the World War
  30. Iowa’s Early Churches
  31. Governors of Iowa
  32. First White Men to Visit Iowa
  33. Iowa’s Indian Tribes
  34. Early Indian Life in Iowa
  35. Great Indian Chiefs of Iowa
  36. Discovery of Iowa
  37. Dubuque and His Settlement
  38. Lewis and Clark in Iowa
  39. With Pike Up the Mississippi
  40. Some Early Explorers and Settlers
  41. Early Forts in Iowa
  42. Indian Agents and Agencies
  43. Buying Iowa From the Indians
  44. Homes of Early Iowa Settlers
  45. How the Early Settlers Lived
  46. Early Transportation in Iowa
  47. Iowa and the Mormon Trail
  48. Many Colonies in Iowa
  49. “War” Over the Missouri-Iowa Boundary
  50. State Capitols of Iowa
  51. Iowa and John Brown
  52. Iowa Before the Civil War
  53. Iowa Soldiers in the Civil War
  54. In Iowa During the Civil War
  55. Spirit Lake Massacre
  56. Early Railroads in Iowa
  57. Roads in Early Iowa
  58. Iowa’s Indians of Today
  59. Early Schools of Iowa
  60. Iowa’s Manufacturing
  61. Early Newspapers and Writers of Iowa
  62. Iowa’s First Churches
  63. Iowa’s Political Parties
  64. Dubuque, Iowa’s First Landowner
  65. Black Hawk and Keokuk, Iowans
  66. Sioux Visits to Northern Iowa
  67. Iowa and Winnebago Chiefs
  68. Sac and Fox Chiefs of Iowa
  69. Lewis and Clark Expedition in Iowa
  70. Pike - One of Iowa’s Early Explorers
  71. Visitors and Explorers of Early Iowa
  72. Antoine LeClare and George Davenport
  73. Langworthy Brothers and Dr. Ross
  74. Robert Lucas, Iowa’s First Governor
  75. First Schools in Iowa
  76. Indian Agents of Early Iowa
  77. Ansel Briggs and Augustus Caesar Dodge
  78. Grimes and Gear, Early Iowa Governors
  79. Samuel J. Kirkwood, Civil War Governor
  80. John Brown of Kansas and the Coppoc Boys
  81. Iowa’s First Supreme Court Judges
  82. Historians of Early Iowa
  83. Famous Editors of Early Iowa
  84. Iowa Generals in the Civil War
  85. William Beardshear and James Wilson
  86. Asa Turner and the Iowa Band
  87. Outstanding Iowa Congressmen
  88. James B. Weaver and Horace Boies
  89. Abolition Leaders of Iowa
  90. Wallaces and Meredith
  91. Iowa Men in Presidents’ Cabinets
  92. Iowa’s Congressmen of Recent Years
  93. Indian Feast
  94. Story of Jean Marie Cardinal
  95. An Early Battle
  96. Iowa’s First Apple Orchard
  97. Indian Trickery Foiled
  98. Indian Chiefs Visit Great White Father
  99. Some Early Iowa Visitors
  100. Treaty Councils
  101. Early Indian School in Iowa
  102. Establishing an Indian Agency
  103. Canoe Trip Down the Des Moines River
  104. Early Steamboat Travel
  105. Frontier Land Claim Associations
  106. Case of Ralph
  107. Hanging of Patrick O’Connor
  108. Religious Meetings in Early Iowa
  109. Election to Determine a County Seat
  110. Mormon Brigade
  111. Politics in Early Iowa
  112. Constitution is Written
  113. Iowa’s First Militia
  114. Effie Afton and the Davenport Bridge
  115. Calico Railroad
  116. Icarians
  117. Story of Old O’Brien
  118. Telegraph Reaches Iowa
  119. Little Brown Church in the Vale
  120. Civil War Fighting on Iowa Soil
  121. Wittenmyer Diet Kitchens
  122. Troubles of Early Northwest Iowa
  123. Two Iowa Naval Boats
  124. Camp Dodge During World War

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