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TABLE OF CONTENTS
V O L U M E O N E
| Chapter | Contents | Pages |
| I | How Science Reveals the History of the Past—Geology Unfolds the Mysteries of Earth’s Formation—Comparative Antiquity of the Continents—Animal Life Evolved—Submerged Iowa—Slow Formation of Rocks—Ancient Rivers, Lakes, Forests and Animals—Once a Tropical Climate—Coming of the Ice Age—Return of Heat and Life—How Soils Were Formed—Theories as to the Origin of the Prairies | 1-14 |
| II | The First Inhabitants of Iowa—The “Mound Builders”—Spanish Adventurers in America—Narvaez’ Disastrous Expedition—Fernando De Soto’s Army of Freebooters—Attempts to Enslave and Subdue the Indians—Fierce Resistance—Wanderings of the Army of Invasion—Retribution Visited Upon the Freebooters—Discovery of the Mississippi River—Crossing the Prairie Regions of Arkansas and Kansas—Retreat, Sickness and Death—De Soto Finds a Grave in the Mississippi—Fate of the Survivors | 15-27 |
| III | Father Jacques Marquette, The French Missionary—Louis Joliet, the French Explorer—Their Expedition to the Far West—Discover the Upper Mississippi and Iowa—Voyage Down the Unexplored River—Along the Eastern Boundary of Iowa—Land and Discover the Des Moines River—Iowa as it Was in 1673—The Indians of that Period—Exploring the Lower Mississippi River—The Return Voyage—Records Lost by Wreck | 29-38 |
| IV | Cavalier de La Salle—Exploration of the Mississippi Valley—Louis Hennepin’s Voyages in 1679-80—Names the Country Louisiana—La Salle’s Voyage in 1682—Naming the River—Fate of the Explorer and his Colony—De Iberville’s Colony in 1699—Lesueur Expedition—Governor Bienville Founds the City of New |
