Excerpt from History and Civil Government of Iowa: For the Use of Normal and Public Schools, Teachers Institutes, and Private Instruction The territory Obtained from the Indians by the Black Hawk Purchase extended along the Mississippi from the northern boundary Of Missouri to the mouth of the Upper Iowa River. The strip averaged about fifty miles in width and contained nearly Six millions of acres, or about one-sixth Of the present area of Iowa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.