Joseph Nicollet's 1843 map of the upper Mississippi basin covers northern Iowa, with the Des Moines and Iowa rivers drawn from his own survey work.
The Meskwaki Nation bought land near Tama in 1857 and has lived there since. What sources describe the routes Meskwaki and Sauk people used through the Iowa river valleys?
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