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Paperback Des Moines: 1845-1920 Book

ISBN: 0738540730

ISBN13: 9780738540733

Des Moines: 1845-1920

(Part of the Images of America: Iowa Series)

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Founded at the fork of two wilderness rivers, Fort Des Moines (which narrowly escaped being named Fort Raccoon) was a temporary garrison of dragoons to keep the peace between Native Americans and settlers until the area could be organized into a territory. After the soldiers left in 1845, pioneers and squatters moved into the abandoned cabins of the stockade, and the city of Des Moines was born. Its central location between the Mississippi and Missouri...

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