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THE HAWKEYE STATE
A History for Home
and School

by

Dr. T. P. Christensen

Transcribed by Beverly Gerdts, August 2023
With assistancce from Lynn McCleary, Muscatine Co IAGenWeb CC.

Page 7 & 8

Table of Contents

Chapter		Page
	Cover
	Forward	5
1	Iowa before the Coming of the White Men	9
2	Marquette and Joliet discover Iowa	13
3	Other Explorers of Iowa	16
4	The Fur Traders	19
5	The Dubuque Lead Mines	21
6	Early Iowa Forts	23
7	The Black Hawk War	26
8	Civilizing the Iowa Indians	29
9	How the Indians Lost Iowa	32
10	Settling the Sac and Fox Purchases	34
11	Iowa as a Territory	37
12	Iowa Becomes a State	41
13	Democrats, Whigs and Republicans	43
14	Pioneer Farming	45
15	The Schools before 1857	47
16	The Early Churches	51
17	Home life of the Pioneers	53
18	Transportation before the Railroads	57
19	The Underground Railroad	59
20	The Regulators	62
21	Iowa in the Civil War	64
22	The Railroads	68
23	Grangers, Greenbackers, and Populists	73
24	Some Foreign Groups	76
25	Improvements in Farming	85
26	Manufacturing and Mining	91
27	Labor Organizes	97
28	Graded Schools, High Schools, Colleges, and Special Schools	99
29	Growth of the Churches	106
30	The Temperance Movement	110
31	The Women's Movement	113
32	Peace, War, and Prosperity	116
33	Iowa in Five Wars	119
34	Business and Banking	123
35	Towns and Cities	126
36	Governors of Iowa	131
37	Apendix
	a. How the Indian Boys Played War	132
	b. Dance in Honor of the Slain Warrior	132
	c. Early Iowa Swarming with Life	133
	d. Prairie Fires	133
	e. Breaking the Prairie	134
	f. A Fourth of July Celebration in 1838	134
	g. Keokuk in 1851	135
	h. Early Days	136
	i. The Short Dress	137
	j. Excerpts from a Speech by Stephen A. Douglas	137
	k. George Catlin at Sergeant Charles Floyd's Grave	138
	l. The Beginnings of Sioux City	140
38	Index	131