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A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names (Bur Oak Guide)
Tom Savage
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Description for A Dictionary of Iowa Place-Names (Bur Oak Guide)
Paperback. Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State's inhabitants. This work includes information about the state's name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of vanished counties and towns. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; GBC; GBGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin - Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State's inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa ... Read more
Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin - Iowa's place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State's inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781587295317
SKU
V9781587295317
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Ref
99-3
About Tom Savage
Native Iowan Tom Savage was born in Mt. Pleasant in 1945. He received his BS in psychology and his MA in college student personnel from the University of Iowa. He was a counselor for Muscatine Community College from 1978 until retirement in 2004; currently he is co-owner of Muscatine Books and More in Muscatine, Iowa. Loren Horton recently retired as ... Read more
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