- He is considered the first white settler in Iowa. He recieved permission from the Mexican government and native Americans to locate here. He was a miner and eventually a city was named after him.
Your answer:
Dewitt Clinton
George Davenport
Julien Dubuque
Antoine Le Claire
- He spoke three languages and 13 Indian dialects. He explored and traded along the Mississippi. The Indians with whom he traded gave him land and subsequently an Iowa town was named after him.
Your answer:
George Davenport
Julien Dubuque
Dewitt Clinton
Antoine Le Claire
- He was a famous westerner and frontiersman, who was born in the Iowa town of LeClaire along the Mississippi river. He had books written about is exploits. He traveled and was well known in the United States as well as Europe.
Your answer:
Albert Lea
James Butler Hickock
Meriweather Lewis
Buffalow Bill Cody
- He was born in Pella Iowa and he and his brothers became western lawmen. He died of old age in California, where he had retired after his adventurous life.
Your answer:
Wild Bill Hickock
Wyatt Earp
Bat Masterson
Chris Madsen
- One of the first missionaries in Iowa was a Catholic priest, who had been based in St. Louis. Over the years of his work he began many of the Catholic churches built along the Mississippi river.
Your answer:
Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli
Fr. Jacques Marquette
Fr. Matthias Loras
Fr. Sebastian Menke
- He was a powerful war chief of the Sauk. A county, a city, a park and a war have been named after him.
Your answer:
Chief Black Hawk
Chief Keokuk
Chief Poweshiek
Chief Mahaska
- Although not born in the state he was probably the one most responsible for it being called Iowa. He traveled through Iowa on an exploratory expedition and later wrote a book in which he labeled the area the Iowa district.
Your answer:
Lt. Albert Lea
Capt Merriweather Lewis
Lt Col. Stephen W. Kearney
Lt Zebulon Pike
- For the longest time the city, who's location he picked for the Territorial legislature to be it's new capital had nothing named after him. He is often credited with building the first capital for the territory. He was ...?
Your answer:
Gov. James Grimes
Chauncy Swann
Gov. Robert Lucas
John Gilbert
- This Iowa governor was an ardent abolitionist. Later during his career as a US senator from Iowa he voted against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.
Your answer:
Gov. William Milo Stone
Gov. James Grimes
Gov. Samuel Kirkwood
Gov. Robert Lucas
- What railroad builder, engineer and surveyor, who served as a Civil War general, built a mansion in Council Bluffs?
Your answer:
William Belknap
S.R. Curtis
Grenville M. Dodge
David Henderson