These articles about history in Iowa have been culled from old newspapers, local histories and biographies and were published in 1945 as a manuscript.
Notes About the Book
- 84 pages ; 20 cm
- No index
- Copyright not renewed as per Stanford database.
- Water damage on every page and both covers.
Table of Contents
- The stories have been culled from old newspapers, local histories and biographies.
- To our state flower, by Mrs. M.E. Clarke (1897)
- The greatness of Iowa, by James Wilson (1880)
- The Iowa farmer in 1840, by Poor Richard and his brother (1840)
- A true pioneer (1882)
- An Indian scare, by J.E. Burnside (1882)
- Fort Robinson, by Mrs. N. Sanford (1867)
- Land hunger, by Hawkins Taylor (1870)
- Hot land office business at 35° below zero, by the Rev. E. Adams (1869)
- The man from Bangor, Maine (1882)
- The Perkins-Flemming War, by O.H. Turrill (1857)
- The Dahlonega War, by Judge H.B. Hendershott (1874)
- The River Land war (1880)
- Pioneers, O Pioneers, by Willard Barrows (1863)
- Tough but fruitful and beautiful, by Joseph W. Cummins (1884)
- The hard winter, by a Dallas County pioneer (1879)
- The Three River County in early days, related by Mrs. Mary Alexander (1905)
- Wild hogs in early southwestern Iowa (1881)
- A successful farmer, by J. Phillips (1870)
- Ye olden days, by Mrs. Louisa Childs Choate (1912)
- Sharing pleasures and hardships, by Sarah J. Statler (1912)
- Those tough, rough, happy old days, by Mrs. G.W. Harlan (1884)
- The founding of Tabor College, by W.M. Brooks (1881)
- Beautiful shores, by Rev. John O. Foster (1910)
- By might and main (1892)
- The coming of the Hollanders, by Mrs. Semira A. Phillips (1900)
- Writing to the folks in Germany in 1851, by Wilhelm Fischer
- The currency riot, by J.M. Burrows (1888)
- Gip, Ed, and John, by G.W. Wilkinson (1914)
- Coming down a notch, by John F. Glover (1920)
- Strong and steady, by J.S. Horton (1914)
- The Clausen colony, by S.B. Chase (1884)
- Pioneer church going (1878)
- Pioneer religion in southeastern Iowa, by Hawkins Taylor (1870)
- Fire water bad for the Indians, by Will Ed Tucker (1883)
- Played with the Indian boys (1910)
- Fever and Ague, by W.W. Merritt, Sr. (1906)
- Pioneer surgery (1910)
- Indian medicine (1914)
- Civil War prisoners, by Mr. Winkless (1922)
- The engine America (1869)
- A brilliant affair (1869)
- The wheels of fortune (1887)
- Water power and mills (1883)
- The mill at Rock Falls (1883)
- Then and now, by Hon. M.P. Rosecrans (1883)
Source
Christensen, Thomas P., Sagas of the Hawkeyes: being stories and incidents of early Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa : Mercer Print. Co., 1945.