Fort Dodge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Dodge write by Roger B. Natte. This book was released on 2008. Fort Dodge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fort Dodge was founded in 1850 as a military post to police the Iowa frontier. A subsequent land boom created fortunes that were reinvested in the local economy. The town soon earned the nickname "Mineral City" because of the extensive deposits of coal, gypsum, limestone, and clay. By 1900, the city was a rail center and the world's largest producer of gypsum products. With a highly diversified economy, the city prospered and by World War I was able to claim to have more skyscrapers per capita than any other city in the Midwest and beautiful public buildings designed by some of the nation's leading architects. Between 1900 and 1925, Fort Dodge enjoyed the role as an important political center and the home of two U.S. senators, the director of the U.S. Mint, the solicitor of the Department of the Treasury, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and the first presidential press secretary and speechwriter. Sons and daughters of the community went on to establish national reputations in art, music, literature, science, and journalism. Images used in this volume come primarily from the archives of the Webster County Historical Society and were chosen to represent the changing character of the community from 1850 to 1970.
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Dodge write by Megan A. Bygness. This book was released on 2012. Fort Dodge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In November 1850, at the juncture of the Des Moines River and the Lizard River, the US Territorial Army established a post named Fort Clarke. The following year, it was renamed Fort Dodge in honor of US senator Henry Dodge of Wisconsin. After the troops were disbanded in 1854, Maj. William Williams purchased the existing buildings and infrastructure from the US government and platted the city. Over the course of the 19th century, Fort Dodge developed into a booming city known as the leading industrial and cultural center of northern Iowa. The images in this book illustrate the world of 19th and 20th century Fort Dodge, presenting the strange and astonishing beauty of a bygone era and the incredible progress we have inherited.
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Dodge write by Roger B. Natte. This book was released on 2008-10-27. Fort Dodge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fort Dodge was founded in 1850 as a military post to police the Iowa frontier. A subsequent land boom created fortunes that were reinvested in the local economy. The town soon earned the nickname Mineral City because of the extensive deposits of coal, gypsum, limestone, and clay. By 1900, the city was a rail center and the worlds largest producer of gypsum products. With a highly diversified economy, the city prospered and by World War I was able to claim to have more skyscrapers per capita than any other city in the Midwest and beautiful public buildings designed by some of the nations leading architects. Between 1900 and 1925, Fort Dodge enjoyed the role as an important political center and the home of two U.S. senators, the director of the U.S. Mint, the solicitor of the Department of the Treasury, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and the first presidential press secretary and speechwriter. Sons and daughters of the community went on to establish national reputations in art, music, literature, science, and journalism. Images used in this volume come primarily from the archives of the Webster County Historical Society and were chosen to represent the changing character of the community from 1850 to 1970.
Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Dodge write by Alan Nelson. This book was released on 2018-06-14. Fort Dodge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonel Richard Irving Dodge write by Wayne R. Kime. This book was released on 2006. Colonel Richard Irving Dodge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Best known today as the author of The Plains of North American and Their Inhabitants (1877), Dodge recorded his observations and thoughts in volumes of journals, letters, and reports, as well as three popular published books. In this first biography of the soldier-author, Wayne R. Kime describes Dodge's early years, experiences as a writer, and forty-three-year career as an infantry officer in the U.s. Army, and sets his life in a rich historical context.
