Side Trails

• The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative: A New Home

  When the pioneers reached their destinations, they build homes with the resources of the area. Log cabins and mud houses were among them.

  Source: The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative, a Web site by Courtney Danforth

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/hns/domwest/build.html

• The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative: Camping

  Camping on the journey west was a new way of living for many women pioneers as they cared for their families along the trail.

  Source: The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative, a Web site by Courtney Danforth

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/hns/domwest/camp.html

• The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative: Clothing

  Find out from the women who pioneered the west the care and kinds of clothing worn.

  Source: The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative, a Web site by Courtney Danforth

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/hns/domwest/cloth.html

• The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative: Food

  The staple of the Western diet was corn. This is a list of things made of corn that pioneer women made for their families.

  Source: The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative, a Web site by Courtney Danforth

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/hns/domwest/food.html

• The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative: Life on the Trail

  Life of a pioneer woman was difficult, and it all began with the difficult journey on the trail west.

  Source: The Domestic Frontier: The West in Women's Personal Narrative, a Web site by Courtney Danforth

  http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/hns/domwest/vehicle.html

• The Dubuque Lumber Reporter

  Here are some interesting articles and advertising in this 1880 publication. Check out the great photo of the planing mill on the last page!

  Source: Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa

  http://www.uni.edu/iowahist/Social_Economic/Dubuque_Lumber/New%20page%201%20test.htm

• The Eskimo Pie Corporation Records, 1921-1996

  So what was that thermal jug with dry ice that kept Eskimo Pies cold at newsstands in 1925?

  Source: Smithsonian National Museum of American History

  http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d8553.htm

• The Flatness of the Midwest

  Listen to KUNI's Voices of Humanities Iowa discuss what Michael Martune wrote about the Midwest landscape.

  Source: Humanities Iowa, KUNI radio, KMA radio and KWIT radio, Voices of Humanities in Iowa, http://www.kuniradio.org/audio_vault.htm

  http://mm1.uni.edu:8080/ramgen/1/kunirm/rossi041204.rm

• The Great River Bridge

  The Great River bridge over the Mississippi River at Burlington is one of several cable-stayed bridges constructed in the 1980s and 1990s.

  Source: Road Sign and Sights Gallery Web Site

  http://www.cosmos-monitor.com/road/sign/us/main/burlington-bridge.html

• The Hamilton Freeman Newspaper, Established in 1857

  The Hamilton Freeman, a local newspaper, was established in 1857 and is still published today.

  Source: Newspaper Articles by Ed Nass, 2000 for Daily Freeman-Journal

  http://showcase.netins.net/web/marjned/freeman.html

• The History of Amana -- Vergangenheit und Gegenwart

  Read more about the general history of Amana. Then read on to see the same article in German!

  Source: Amana Heritage Society

  http://www.amanaheritage.org/history.html

• The History of Liquor Legislation in Iowa: 1847-1861

  Follow the history of liquor legislation from 1847-1861.

  Source: Iowa History Project: Iowa Journal of History and Politics

  http://iagenweb.org/history/journal/jan1908.htm

• The History of Liquor Legislation in Iowa: 1861-1878

  Read more about the history of the attempts to regulate the manufacture and sale of liquors in Iowa from 1861-1878.

  Source: Iowa History Project: Iowa Journal of History and Politics

  http://iagenweb.org/history/journal/jul1908.htm

• The History of the Broom in the Amana Colonies

  Find out about Philip Griess, the blind broom-maker of the Colonies.

  Source: Broom & Basket Shop, West Amana

  http://www.broomandbasket.com/history.asp

• The History of the Flag of Iowa

  In 1918 Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt of Knoxville Iowa designed our current state flag.

  Source: Library of Congress, American Memory

  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.01905000

• The Honey War by John I. Campbell

  Read The Honey War, a poem by John I. Campbell.

  Source: Missouri Department of Natural Resources

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi25.htm

• The Impact of Refrigeration

  Imagine life without ice cream, fresh fruit, or frozen dinners.

  Source: from the Feb./Mar. issue of History Magazine

  http://www.history-magazine.com/refrig.html

• The Iowa Agriculturist: For the Farm, Garden and Household

  Read about post-Civil War technological advances in farm machinery such as plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, haying, threshing, and husking.

  Source: Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa

  http://www.uni.edu/iowahist/Social_Economic/IA_Agriculturist/iowa_agriculturist_for_the_farm.htm

• The Iowa Agriculturist: Harvesting: Small Grain

  Harvesting grain was important and difficult, but mechanized harvesters helped decrease the time and labor.

  Source: Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, Explorations in Iowa History Project, Price Laboratory School, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls

  http://www.campsilos.org/mod2/teachers/r1_part5.shtml

• The Iowa Farmstead: 1920

  Read about the scientific and technological advances of the first two decades of the twentieth century.

  Source: Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa

  http://www.uni.edu/iowahist/Social_Economic/Iowa%20Farmstead/IowaFarmstead_files/Farmstead_Masthead.htm

• The Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance

  Find a restored one-room schoolhouse near you with the Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance Directory of Iowa's Country Schools.

  Source: The Iowa Historic Preservation Alliance

  http://iowapreservation.org/schools.php

• The Iowa Housewife

  What was it like to be a 'housewife' in early Iowa?

  Source: Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa

  http://www.uni.edu/iowahist/Social_Economic/Iowa_Housewife/iowa_housewife_Masthead.htm

• The Making of Iowa: A Few Romances

  Far from being deadly foes, early White explorers and Indians often joined forces, intermarried, and sustained intimate relationships.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp15.htm

• The Making of Iowa: A Little Border War

  When Governor Lucas took office, he found a serious dispute on his hands, the issue of the southern boundary of Iowa, and the militia ready to battle over it.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi25.htm

• The Making of Iowa: Fighting Indians at Fort Madison

  Where the city of Fort Madison now is, once stood a small fort that experienced many stormy scenes.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi17.htm

• The Making of Iowa: From Canoe to Railroad

  The rivers, Iowa's first highways, brought other means of transportation.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi28.htm

• The Making of Iowa: How Iowa Changed Ownership

  No one knows the age of Iowa. But we know that it has changed ownership over many thousand years.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIC1.htm

• The Making of Iowa: How Lewis and Clarke Fared

  The Missouri River expedition in 1804 was in charge of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clarke.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp14.htm

• The Making of Iowa: How the Indians Lost Iowa

  The transfer of Iowa from the Native Americans was primarily made through a series of treaties.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp5.htm

• The Making of Iowa: In Closing

  Standing at the beginning of the 20th century, this author sends a message to the young Iowans of the next millennium who will be learning about the state.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp34.html

• The Making of Iowa: Indian Battle Grounds

  Indians fought each other as well as fighting the whites.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp9.htm

• The Making of Iowa: Iowa and Slavery

  Although Iowa was a Free State, the slavery question was a burning issue in Iowa politics.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi30.htm

• The Making of Iowa: Iowa's Indian Massacre

  Find out more about the battles involving Fort Madison.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/moi29.htm

• The Making of Iowa: Iowa's Indians

  Iowa's Native Peoples are many.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp4.htm

• The Making of Iowa: Keokuk, Friend of the Whites

  Although Keokuk was Black Hawk's rival, was not so great a warrior as Black Hawk, but he was a finer orator, and was shrewder.

  Source: The Making of Iowa, Iowa History Project

  http://iagenweb.org/history/moi/MOIChp7.htm