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Hawkeye State - A History for Home and School

 by Thomas P. Christensen

Iowa City: Athens Press, 1956

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Table of Contents

Iowa Before the Coming of the White Men
Marquette and Joliet Discover Iowa
Other Explorers of Iowa
Fur Traders
Dubuque Lead Mines
Early Iowa Forts
Black Hawk War
Civilizing the Iowa Indians
How the Indians Lost Iowa
Settling the Sac and Fox Purchases
Iowa as a Territory
Iowa Becomes a State
Democrats, Whigs and Republicans
Pioneer Farming
Schools Before 1857
Early Churches
Home Life of the Pioneers
Transportation Before the Railroad
Underground Railroad
Regulators
Iowa in the Civil War
Railroads
Grangers, Greenbackers, and Populists
Some Foreign Groups
Improvements in Farming
Manufacturing and Mining
Labor Organizes
Graded Schools, High Schools, Colleges, and Special Schools
Growth of the Churches
Temperance Movement
Woman’s Movement
Peace, War and Prosperity
Iowa in Five Wars
Business and Banking
Towns and Cities
Governors of Iowa