Iowa History Project

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OUR IOWA

ITS BEGINNINGS

AND GROWTH

BY

HUBERT L. MOELLER

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, SOMERS, IOWA

AUTHER OF "IOWA HISTORY STORIES" IN DES MOINES REGISTER

AND

HUGH C. MUELLER

IOWA STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE

Co-author, "Personal Problems in School Management," "Rural School Management,"

"Teaching History by the Problem Method"

NEWSON & COMPANY

NEW YORK AND CHICAGO

1938

EXCERPTS

Transcribed by Debbie Gerischer & Kaylee Bopp

The Indians of Iowa

· Blackhawk and Keokuk

· Other Indian Chiefs of Iowa

· Indian Agents and Agencies

· Iowa Lost by the Indians

· Iowa’s Indian Massacres

Discovery and Exploration, or the First Men in Iowa

· The Discovery of Iowa

· Dubuque's Settlement

· With Lewis and Clark on the Mississippi

· Lieutenant Pike on the Mississippi

· Other Early Explorers and Settlers

Pioneer Life in Iowa

• Fort Madison - Iowa's First Fort
• Other Iowa Forts
• Early Settlers' Homes
• Hardships of Early Farmers
• Our First Schools
• Travel on the Rivers
• Early Roads
• Iowa's First Churches

Early Governments

• Iowa Owned by Europeans
• Iowa Bought by Uncle Sam
• Iowa as a Territory
• Iowa's Struggle to Become a State
• Iowa's Capitals
• Early Iowa Counties
• Early Iowa Politics

Iowa in War

• The "Honey War"
• Iowa and John Brown
• Iowa and the Slavery Question
• Our Soldiers in the Civil War
• In Iowa During The Civil War
• Iowa in Recent Wars

Interesting People and Groups of People

• Iowa and the Mormons
• Religious Colonists in Iowa
• Iowa's Immigrants
• Lincoln and Grant in Iowa
• Political Leaders of National Importance
• Other Important Iowans

Iowa Grows Up

• Building A Great Railroad System
• Development of Newspapers
• Iowa's Manufacturing
• Care of our Unfortunates
• Higher Education
• Politics Since the Civil War
• Iowa Today - A Great Agricultural State

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