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Palimpsest (Iowa)

Index of Articles in Issues that I have the TEXT ONLY.

This publication is by the Iowa Historical Society.

1920-1939-----------------1940-1964

Click here for Issues that I have the full issues.

Newspaper History / August 1920
Editorial Dialogue / August 1920
Three Men and a Press / August 1920
Romance of the Forties / September 1920
Benjamin Stone Roberts / September 1920
Execution of O'Connor / September 1920
Father Mazzuchelli / October 1920
A Few Martial Memories / October 1920
A Geological Palimpsest / November 1920
Through European Eyes / November 1920
Crossing the Mississippi / December 1920
Clint Parkhurst / December 1920
Lost in an Iowa Blizzard / January 1921
Early Cabins in Iowa / January 1921
Old Military Road / February 1921
Phantoms on the Old Road / February 1921
Along the Old Military Road / February 1921
Bradford - a Prairie Village / March 1921
Little Brown Church / March 1921
English Community in Iowa / March 1921
Icaria & The Icarians / April 1921
The Ripple / April 1921
A Reminiscence / April 1921
Underground Railroad in Iowa / May 1921
Big Game Hunting in Iowa / May 1921
Michel Aco - Squaw-Man / June 1921
A Colored Convention / June 1921
Pacific City Fight / June 1921
Amana / July 1921
Perils of a Pioneer Editor / August 1921
Coming of the Railroad / August 1921
River Trip in 1833 / August 1921
Cardiff Giant / September 1921
Pike's Hill / September 1921
Magnolia / September 1921
The Way to Iowa / October 1921
From New York to Iowa / October 1921
Study in Heads / October 1921
Old Fort Atkinson / November 1921
Beginnings of Burlington / November 1921
Race Riot on the Mississippi / December 1921
An Indian Ceremony / December 1921
Augustus Caesar Dodge / December 1921
The M. and M. Railroad / January 1922
Letters of a Railroad Builder / January 1922
Moving the Winnebago / February 1922
With the First Iowa Infantry / February 1922
Paying the First Iowa / February 1922
Our First View of Vicksburg / March 1922
Lake of the Taensa / March 1922
Wedding of James Harlan / April 1922
In the Neutral Ground / April 1922
Visit to Dubuque's Grave / April 1922
First Mississippi Bridge / May 1922
Lincoln and the Bridge Case / May 1922
Hummer's Bell / May 1922
Attack on Corinth / June 1922
A Letter / June 1922
Liquor and the Indians / July 1922
The Handcart Expeditions / July 1922
The Passing of a Slave / July 1922
Robert Lucas / August 1922
Iowa in the Days of Lucas / August 1922
Three Early Taverns / August 1922
Iowa Abbey - New Melleray / September 1922
Sioux City Corn Palaces / October 1922
Blue Grass Palace / October 1922
Ottumwa Coal Palace / October 1922
That 1900 Football Team / November 1922
World's Series of 1891 / November 1922
Adrian C. Anson / November 1922
The Passing of Homer / December 1922
Pilot Grove / December 1922
Siege of Corinth / January 1923
The Iowa Thespians / January 1923
Pleasant Hill Dramatics / January 1923
A Confederate Spy / February 1923
Ventures in Wheat / February 1923
A Man of Vision / March 1923
A Contested Election / March 1923
Legislative Episodes / March 1923
The Iowa / April 1923
Winter of Eighty-One / April 1923
Tesson's Apple Orchard / April 1923
The First Iowa Field Day / May 1923
The Capital on Wheels / May 1923
Bob" Burdete - Humorist / June 1923
Grasshopper Times / June 1923
Pointing the Way to Iowa / July 1923
Discovery of Iowa / July 1923
Father Marquette / July 1923
Louis Joliet / July 1923
Restorer of Iowa Palimpsests / August 1923
An Iowa Doone Band / August 1923
The Early Iowans / September 1923
A Pioneer Journey / September 1923
Bridging the Cedar / September 1923
Kelly's Army / October 1923
Lieutenant Jefferson Davis / October 1923
Over the Rapids / November 1923
Scotch Grove Trail / November 1923
Scrap-Books of a Quiet Little Lady with Silvery Hair / December 1923
Grandmother's Story / January 1924
Grandfather's Adventure / January 1924
An Old Settler's Story / January 1924
Old O'Brien / January 1924
Tribune of the People / February 1924
Two District Conventions / February 1924
Master of Oratory / February 1924
Judge Joseph Williams / March 1924
Justice in Early Iowa / March 1924
Des Moines Rapids Canal / April 1924
Birds of Early Iowa / April 1924
Pen Knife Quarrel / April 1924
Hard Times in Early Iowa / May 1924
Peter in the Pumpkin / May 1924
Stagecoach Days / May 1924
Home Guards / June 1924
George W. Matsell / July 1924
In Quest of a Prairie Home / July 1924
In Retrospect / July 1924
The Majors War / July 1924
A Journalist of Purpose / August 1924
Man He Was / August 1924
Two Lay Sermons / August 1924
Henry Clay Dean / September 1924
Iowa at the Centennial / September 1924
Honey War / September 1924
Iowa in the Beginning / October 1924
Indians of Iowa / October 1924
Explorations of Iowa / October 1924
Naming of Iowa / October 1924
Pronunciation of Iowa / October 1924
Great Seals of Iowa / October 1924
Mottoes and Slogans of Iowa / October 1924
Songs of Iowa / October 1924
Iowa Banner / October 1924
First Iowa School / November 1924
At the Opera House / November 1924
John Johns of Webster County / November 1924
With the Flying Artillery / December 1924
School on Yellow River / December 1924
Manuel Lisa / January 1925
Fur Trade in Early Iowa / January 1925
Life Among the Fur Traders / January 1925
Kate Shelley / February 1925
The Eclipse of 1869 / February 1925
Iowa at the New Orleans Fair / March 1925
Boyd Wilkinson Case / March 1925
Lincoln Pole Raising / April 1925
When Iowa Was Young / April 1925
Voyage of the Omaha / April 1925
In Honor of the Flag / May 1925
Iowa at the World's Fair / May 1925
An Ioway Village / May 1925
51st Iowa / June 1925
Camp McKinley / June 1925
Prospecting for a New Home / July 1925
Journey Out West / July 1925
Gleanings of an Editor / July 1925
A Diligent Public Servant / August 1925
Presidential Hopes / August 1925
Young Men for Old / August 1925
Great Council of 1825 / September 1925
Old Pottawattamie Mill / September 1925
A.J. Whisman, Pioneer / October 1925
Trials of a Homesteader / October 1925
Vigilance Committees / October 1925
Telegraph Pioneering / November 1925
In the Battle of Winchester / November 1925
At the End of Their Rope / December 1925
Grant's Des Moines Speech / December 1925
First Church in Iowa / January 1926
Indian Jim / January 1926
Two Connecticut Yankees / January 1926
The Case of Ralph / February 1926
The Tama Indians / February 1926
Boundaries of Iowa / February 1926
Career of Energy / March 1926
In the Name of Free Soil / March 1926
Constitution Making in 1857 / March 1926
Wisaka / April 1926
That Good Old Man / April 1926
Wanted - A Servant Girl / April 1926
Washed Loyal / April 1926
Same as Oct. 1924 / May 1926
Rantchewaime / June 1926
The Pomeroy Cyclone / June 1926
A Missionary Enterprise / June 1926
The Jones County Calf Case / July 1926
Fourth of July in 1860 / July 1926
Boyhood on the Frontier / July 1926
From Coast to Coast / August 1926
Across the Prairies of Iowa / August 1926
In Line with Progress / August 1926
Emerson at Davenport / September 1926
For Value Received / September 1926
Landscapes of Early Iowa / September 1926
Seward and Douglas in Iowa / October 1926
Seventh Iowa State Fair / October 1926
Campaign of 1883 / October 1926
Grave of Sergeant Floyd / November 1926
On the Upper Mississippi / November 1926
Lead Mines of Dubuque / November 1926
Visit to Keokuk's Village / November 1926
Adventures in a Bark Canoe / November 1926
Course of Empire / November 1926
River Towns / December 1926
A Transient County Seat / December 1926
Iowa Pioneers / January 1927
A Capital in Name Only / February 1927
Flashlights on Vicksburg / February 1927
Trip to the Bad Lands / March 1927
One More River to Cross / March 1927
Rafting on the Mississippi / April 1927
In This Neglected Spot / April 1927
The Battle of Athens / April 1927
The Desire for Freedom / May 1927
Early Iowa Camp-Meetings / May 1927
High Water in Western Iowa / May 1927
Baseball in 1867 / May 1927
Prehistoric Indians of Iowa / June 1927
Siam Gold / July 1927
Minor Prophet in Iowa / July 1927
Jim Jackson's Raid / August 1927
Rivers of Iowa / August 1927
Poweshiek / September 1927
Implacable Foes / September 1927
Talk of Peace / September 1927
Baseball Beginnings / October 1927
Biography of a Newspaper / October 1927
Due Process of Marriage / October 1927
Mahaska / November 1927
The Missouri Slope / November 1927
Amana Meteor / November 1927
Hairy Nation / December 1927
When Barnum Came to Iowa / December 1927
Wapello / January 1928
Birth of the Territory / January 1928
Indians of Iowa / February 1928
The People's Theater / March 1928
Proximity / March 1928
Keokuk / April 1928
Voyages of the Black Hawk / May 1928
The Nicollet Boundaries / May 1928
Pathfinding in Iowa / May 1928
Nicholas Fejervary / June 1928
On the Frontier in 1845 / June 1928
Bowen's Prairie / June 1928
The Lay of the Land / July 1928
The Coming of the Quakers / July 1928
The Inner Light / July 1928
Dusky Lading / July 1928
John Brown's Band / July 1928
Scattergood Seminary / July 1928
Bert Hoover / July 1928
Boyhood in Iowa / July 1928
Community Clubs / July 1928
Furrows / August 1928
Battle of Wilson's Creek / August 1928
One Who Dissented / August 1928
Estherville Meteor / September 1928
Great Snake Hunt / September 1928
Indians at Boston / September 1928
A Convention Stampeded / October 1928
Hungry Indians / October 1928
Campaigning with Jackson / October 1928
Springdale Recruits - Coppoc Boys / November 1928
At Harper's Ferry / November 1928
The Escape / November 1928
Rendition Foiled / November 1928
Lowell / December 1928
Literary Place Names / December 1928
First Day of the Century / January 1929
Fashions in the Fifties / January 1929
Play-Party Games - Past at Play / February 1929
School-Day Games / February 1929
Old Square Dances / February 1929
Some Songs of Long Ago / March 1929
The Varsity Whirl / March 1929
Captain Joseph Throckmorton / April 1929
Forest City Meteor / April 1929
Indian Affairs - New Purchase / May 1929
Making the Treaty of 1842 / May 1929
Westward / May 1929
The Promised Land / May 1929
Council Bluffs in 1865 / June 1929
The C.B. and St. Joe / June 1929
The North Western / June 1929
The Rock Island / June 1929
The Final Ties / June 1929
The Rockdale Flood / July 1929
Captives in Dixie / July 1929
Signs of the Times: Iowa State Fair / August 1929
John D. Dillon / September 1929
Academy of Music / September 1929
Estes House Hospital / September 1929
Tradition, The / October 1929
Molly Clemens's Note Book / October 1929
Literary Apprenticeship / October 1929
Adrift for Heresy / October 1929
The Closing Years / October 1929
United by Rail / November 1929
Steamboats Dubuque / November 1929
Through English Eyes / November 1929
Whittier College Days / December 1929
The Name of Odebolt / December 1929
Iowa and the Nation / January 1930
On the Floor of the Senate / January 1930
In the House / January 1930
On the Bench / January 1930
In the Cabinet / January 1930
Near Foreign Chancelleries / January 1930
The Writer's Iowa / February 1930
Exponents of the Pioneers / February 1930
A Novelist of the Unsung / February 1930
The Younger School / February 1930
Iowa Literary Magazines / February 1930
Federated Music Clubs / March 1930
Cornell Music Festival / March 1930
Dvorak at Spillville / March 1930
High School Festival / March 1930
Samuel Ryan Curtis / April 1930
Francis Jay Herron / April 1930
Frederick Steele / April 1930
Grenville Mellen Dodge / April 1930
George Windle Read / April 1930
Hanson Edward Ely / April 1930
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs / May 1930
Iowa Academy of Science / May 1930
A Unique Survey / May 1930
The Iowa Homestead / June 1930
Wallaces' Farmer / June 1930
The Meredith Publications / June 1930
The Civilization of Corn / July 1930
The Passing of the Herds / July 1930
The Coming of the Legumes / July 1930
Hogs to Feed / July 1930
Immigrants from Russia / July 1930
First Bishop of Iowa / August 1930
Wilson Seeley Lewis / August 1930
Billy Sunday / August 1930
The Iowa Band / August 1930
Billy Robinson, Bird-Man / September 1930
Destination-Unknown / September 1930
Good News / September 1930
Iowa City Municipal Airport / September 1930
Many Foundations - Colleges / October 1930
Iowa Wesleyan College / October 1930
Courses of Study / October 1930
Mason City Junior College / October 1930
From Plastic Clay / November 1930
George H. Yewell / November 1930
J.N. Ding / November 1930
Susan Glaspell / December 1930
Buffalo Bill, Showman / December 1930
The Giard Tract / January 1931
The McGregor Estate / January 1931
A Metropolis of the Fifties / January 1931
Horse Railways / January 1931
Misrepresentative Fiction / February 1931
To Market with Hogs / February 1931
The First" Locomotive / February 1931
Ioway to Iowa / March 1931
The Rising Sun / March 1931
Iowaland / March 1931
The Red Barrier / March 1931
The Star of Empire / March 1931
The White Tide / March 1931
The Prairie / March 1931
Epic of the Towns / March 1931
Corn / March 1931
The Bible / March 1931
Birds That Have Vanished / April 1931
Country Fit for Princes / April 1931
Erik Kjyten / April 1931
An American Lady / May 1931
La Follette Wins / May 1931
Old Flower Gardens / May 1931
Historical and Memorial Parks / June 1931
The Enchantment of the Lakes / June 1931
Scenes of Rare Beauty / June 1931
The Hobo Convention / July 1931
Ian Maclaren / July 1931
Stephen Watts Kearny - Kearny in Iowa / August 1931
Trailmaking on the Frontier / August 1931
Up the Missouri with Atkinson / August 1931
Across the Prairies of Iowa / August 1931
Wittenmyer Diet Kitchens / September 1931
The Harlan Home / September 1931
Famous War Horse / September 1931
Sheldall School / September 1931
Last Horse Robbery / October 1931
The Old Mill / October 1931
Perrot's Mines / November 1931
Jean Marie Cardinal / November 1931
Julien Dubuque / November 1931
Chouteau v. Molony / November 1931
A Pioneer Home / December 1931
Mount Hope Church / December 1931
Founding the Normal School - Iowa State Normal School / January 1932
James Cleland Gilchrist / January 1932
The First Decade / January 1932
Moses Willard Bartlett / January 1932
Chief of the Sauks - Black Hawk / February 1932
Futile Defiance / February 1932
The Terms of Peace / February 1932
An Adventure in Faith / March 1932
Prospect of Fort Dodge / March 1932
Matter of Gauge / April 1932
Iowa and the Narrow Gauge / April 1932
Widening the Narrow Gauge / April 1932
From Bellevue to Cascade / April 1932
First in the Mile Relay / May 1932
Roasted Eggs / May 1932
Riverside Band / May 1932
John Van Fleet Crum / June 1932
For Harrison and Reid / June 1932
Who Was Nagelsen / July 1932
Old Zion Church / July 1932
A Mass Convention / July 1932
Voyage of the Virginia / August 1932
Chance / August 1932
Charles W Williams / September 1932
Axtell / September 1932
Allerton / September 1932
Rush Park / September 1932
Theodore Roosevelt in Iowa / October 1932
Great Ridge Road / October 1932
Gunda's Coffee Pot / October 1932
With Sword - S. H. M. Byers / November 1932
And Pen / November 1932
Iowa / November 1932
Argonauts of the Mississippi / December 1932
Thieves Beware / December 1932
Wise Time to Be Born - James Depew Edmundson / January 1933
The Full Tide / January 1933
Medicine for the Soul / January 1933
Hearthstone / January 1933
National Scene - Settlers come / February 1933
To the Land of Black Hawk / February 1933
The Half-breed Tract / February 1933
Squatter Settlements / February 1933
Pioneers in Person / February 1933
Life Insurance / March 1933
Camanche Tornado / April 1933
Caught in a Blizzard / April 1933
Earthquakes in Iowa / April 1933
Conception and Design / May 1933
Construction and Launching / May 1933
In Line of Battle / May 1933
Liquor Merry-Go-Round / June 1933
George C. Haddock / June 1933
Robert G. Cousins / July 1933
Wildcat Currency / July 1933
The Rock Island Comes / August 1933
Grand Excursion of 1854 / August 1933
The North Western Comes / September 1933
Potter Christ / September 1933
In the Bicycle Era / October 1933
Illinois Central Comes / October 1933
Burlington Comes / November 1933
Scientific Tour / November 1933
Restless Farmers / November 1933
The Milwaukee Comes / December 1933
Hope Glenn / January 1934
Across the Mississippi / January 1934
Harlan's Defense of Grant / January 1934
Iowa in Louisiana - Establishment of Civil Gvt. in Iowa / February 1934
Iowa in Michigan / February 1934
Michigan Personalities / February 1934
Government Comes to Iowa / February 1934
Creation of a commonwealth / March 1934
President for the University / April 1934
Julien Theater / April 1934
Man, The - Thomas Huston Mcacbride / May 1934
The Scholar / May 1934
As He Thinketh / May 1934
Called to Iowa / June 1934
The Flood of 1851 / June 1934
Indians at Gray's Ford / June 1934
A Port for Pioneers / July 1934
The Hub of Politics / July 1934
Land, Elixir, and Staples / July 1934
Historic Iowa / August 1934
Webster City Lyceum / August 1934
Come to Hamilton County / August 1934
Genesis of Planking - Plank Road Fever / September 1934
The Boom in Iowa / September 1934
Planked in Places / September 1934
The Background / October 1934
Federal Project 1047 / October 1934
In the Day's Work / October 1934
The Iowa Dairy Association / November 1934
Old Songs for New / December 1934
Similarities and Contrasts - Early Iowa governors / January 1935
Territorial Governors / January 1935
Early State Governors / January 1935
Civil War Governors / January 1935
Buffalo Hunting with Keokuk / February 1935
Prairie Fires / February 1935
Albert Miller Lea - A Century Ago / March 1935
The Naming of Iowa / March 1935
Iowa in 1835 / March 1935
Records of the March - Expedition of 1835 / April 1935
Official Letters / April 1935
A Memoir / April 1935
Pioneer Learning - Rise of Education / May 1935
The Academy / May 1935
The High School / May 1935
Vanished Hosts / June 1935
The College of the Pioneer / June 1935
Excelsior / June 1935
Chinch Bugs Rampant / July 1935
Iowa Pioneer Phalanx / July 1935
Fourth at Webster City / July 1935
Iowa in 1834 / August 1935
A Plan That Failed / September 1935
The Switzerland of Iowa / September 1935
A Winnebago Encampment / September 1935
Burlington Westward / October 1935
Planked from Burlington / October 1935
From Planks to Rails / October 1935
For Peace and Freedom / November 1935
Reuben Dorland / November 1935
Coming of D. Sands - Wright / November 1935
Christmas in Iowa / December 1935
The Iten Christmas Display / December 1935
Steam Sleighs for Steamboats / January 1936
Lytle City / January 1936
Glimpses of Iowa / January 1936
Elder Bowman / February 1936
The Adair Train Robbery / February 1936
Creation of the Territory - Wisconsin Territory / March 1936
Government in Iowa / March 1936
Times in Review / March 1936
Du Buque Visitor - Iowa Newspaper Centennial / April 1936
The First Five Years / April 1936
Some Prominent Editors / April 1936
Amana--In Transition / May 1936
Regulating the Lead Miners / June 1936
John P. Sheldon / June 1936
Jasons of 1860 / July 1936
Flood Time at Cascade / July 1936
Iowa in 1835 / August 1936
The Old Rustic Mill / September 1936
John McGraw in Iowa Baseball / September 1936
A Trip to Iowa in 1841 / October 1936
An Amish Migration / October 1936
Grand Concert / November 1936
The Mind and the Soil / November 1936
The Gathering of the Clan / December 1936
Sabbath in the Kirk / December 1936
A Beloved Dominie / December 1936
Aratus Kent - Beginning of Congregationalism / January 1937
Asa Turner and the Welsh / January 1937
Congregationalism in Iowa City / January 1937
The Marion Meteor / February 1937
Leonid Shower of 1867 / February 1937
Iowa in 1837 / March 1937
Apri; Life in the Iowa District / March 1937
The Farmer Supports All / March 1937
Shiftless Farmer / March 1937
The Hutchinson Singers / May 1937
Rivalry Among the River Towns / May 1937
Think of Faint Lillies" - Nincompoopiana / June 1937
Think of Faint Lillies" - Nincompoopiana / June 1937
Reformer in Knee Breaches / June 1937
By water Odyssey / July 1937
An Invitation to Immigrants / July 1937
Iowa Anecdote / July 1937
Iowa in 1838 / August 1937
Jennie Shrader / September 1937
Iowa Episode - Dead Cat Politics / September 1937
Iowa Anecdote / September 1937
Surveying the M. and M. / September 1937
Two Lost Boys / September 1937
The Career of a Pioneer / October 1937
In the Lifetime of a Bur Oak / October 1937
In the Lifetime of a Bur Oak / October 1937
Boyhood and Youth - Levi O. Leonard / November 1937
Railroads and the West / November 1937
Collector-Historian / November 1937
From the Durant Papers / November 1937
A Pioneer Christmas Tree / December 1937
Cheers for the D. & S. C. / December 1937
The National Scene in 1838 / January 1938
Iowa in 1838: Henry Dodge / February 1938
Iowa in 1838: On River & Highway / March 1938
Iowa in 1838: Sponsor of Iowa / April 1938
Iowa in 1838: Cultural Aspirations / May 1938
Iowa in 1838: The Organic Act / June 1938
Iowa in 1838 : The Birthday of the Territory / July 1938
Iowa in 1838: Governor’s Tour / August 1938
Iowa in 1838: Frontier Democracy / September 1938
Iowa in 1838: The Ioways Bid Farewell / October 1938
Iowa in 1838: A Question of Dignity / November 1938
Iowa in 1838: Homespun Amusements / December 1938
Ozro French / January 1939
First Territorial Assembly / February 1939
Parker for President / February 1939
A Town that Moved / February 1939
Guides to Iowa Territory / March 1939
In Defense of Claims / March 1939
Samuel H. McCrory / March 1939
County Evolution in 1839 / March 1939
The Abbe Pelamourgues / April 1939
Napoleon on the Frontier / April 1939
A Journey of a Journalist / April 1939
Capital at Iowa City / May 1939
Father Pierre Jean De Smet / June 1939
Supreme Court in Session / June 1939
St. Raphael's Seminary / June 1939
Iowa Anecdote / June 1939
Abner Kneeland-Pantheist / July 1939
What About the Weather / July 1939
Beginnings of Davenport / August 1939
Public School Beginnings / September 1939
The Bloomers in Iowa / September 1939
Iowa Anecdote / September 1939
Henry County Beginnings / October 1939
Beginnings of Muscatine / November 1939
James Clarke / December 1939
A Penitentiary for Iowa / December 1939