"A biography of Augustin Augustine Cooper including his ancestral immigrant story of coming to America onboard the Ark & Dove following Lord Baltimore, his childhood years in the Allegheny Mountains, migration to Iowa, hardships on the frontier, change of fortune on board a Mississippi River steamboat, final settlement in Dubuque, Iowa, to establish the largest 19th century wagon works west of the Mississippi. Chronicled also are details of his family...

"James, Lucius, Edward and Solon Langworthy arrived in the lead mining district of the Upper Midwest in the 1820s and made a lasting impression on what would become Dubuque. Their father, Dr. Stephen Langworthy, and their seventeen siblings soon joined in the wilderness adventure. Solon plowed the first fields, James built the first Methodist church and Lucius built the first road between Dubuque and Iowa City. Their ancestor James IV fought to secure...

"A new, full length biography of Julien Dubuque has been long overdue. Here, Dubuque author Robert F. Klein presents a fully researched and documented study of the life of this Iowa pioneer who deserves a much greater reputation than he has so far achieved. This first white settler in Iowa lived in harmony with his Native American neighbors in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, engaging in farming, lead mining, general trading at a time when the...