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Iowa Past to Present The People and the Prairie, Revised Third Edition
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In Iowa Past to Present, originally published in 1989, Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their extensive knowledge of Iowa's history with years of experience addressing the...
In Iowa Past to Present, originally published in 1989, Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen combine their extensive knowledge of Iowa's history with years of experience addressing the educational needs of elementary and middle-school students. Their skillful and accessible narrative brings alive the people and events that populate Iowa's rich heritage. This revised edition brings the story into the twenty-first century and makes a paperback edition available for the first time. Beginning with Iowa's changing geological landforms, the authors pr
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- 3rd ed
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2003
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- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1587295512
- OCLC
- ocn773567028
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- Contents; The Study of History; 1. The Changing Land; 2. American Indians: The Earliest People in Iowa; 3. Many Flags over Iowa; 4. Pioneers on the Prairie; 5. Pioneer Life on the Prairie; 6. Rivers, Trails, and Train Tracks: Transportation in the 1800s; 7. A Nation Divided; 8. Settlers from Many Lands; 9. Providing a Government; 10. Schools for a New State; 11. Keeping the Faith on the Frontier; 12. Experiments in Community Living; 13. Life on the Farm-Iowa Style; 14. New Inventions Bring Change 221; 15. Business and Industry in Iowa; 16. World War I and Hard Times After
- 17. Depression, Changing Times, and World War II18. A Time of Many Changes; 19. Iowa in the World; Index