{"id":6681,"date":"2015-10-19T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6681"},"modified":"2015-10-19T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T05:18:03","slug":"more-about-iowas-northern-and-western-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/more-about-iowas-northern-and-western-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Iowa’s northern and western borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, I wrote about my research into the back-and-forth of the 1830s and 1840s in creating the shape of the state of Iowa<\/a>. I mentioned that I had never seen any proposal of a northern border of 45\u00b0 from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River, including the southern third of Minnesota and all of eastern South Dakota.<\/p>\n

However, as part of an “Iowa 101” course co-sponsored by The Des Moines Register<\/em>, DMACC, and Graceland University, a foray into the history of Iowa’s northern and western borders<\/a> that relies almost exclusively on research into Minnesota’s borders does indicate that a straight line that far north was considered at least at one point.<\/p>\n

In the end, all the future inhabitants of the land between 43\u00b030′ and 45\u00b0 N were deprived of their chance to be Iowans, while those east of the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers were spared the horror of becoming Nebraskans.<\/p>\n

The lesson has a curt dismissal of\u00a0“how far the future Iowa would extend to the south” and I must point out that this certainly wasn’t settled easily, and is among the more famous border disputes in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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