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Making of Iowa

by Henry Sabin.

Chicago: A. Flanigan, 1900

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Table of Contents

How Iowa Changed Ownership
Birth of a Territory
Birth of a State
Iowa Indians
How the Indians Lost Iowa
What Black Hawk Did
Keokuk, Friend of the Whites
Other Indian Chiefs
Indian Battle Grounds
First White Alien in Iowa
First White Settlers
More Early Settlers
With Pike up the Mississippi in 1805
How Lewis and Clark Fared
A Few Romances
Trading Posts and Indian Agencies
Fighting Indians at Fort Madison
Other Iowa Forts
Rush for Land in Iowa
Making a Living in Early Iowa
Life Among the Settlers
Teachers and Preachers
Law and Medicine
Locating a Capital
A Little Border War
March of the Mormons
Some Rather Extraordinary Colonies
From Canoe to Railroad
Iowa’s Indian Massacre
Iowa and Slavery
Old John Brown
Some Iowa War Scenes
Battle of Athens