OK, so now we had a name, but we also had a question: Why would an area in Iowa be named for a Missouri senator? One reason ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

But, beginning in the 1880s, railroads opened up the Bootheel to logging. 1905, Little River Drainage District constructed elaborate ditches, canals, and levees to drain the swamp land. As a result, ...