Davenport: Jewel of the Mississippi

by David R. Collins, Mary Louise Speer, Rich Johnson, et al.

Book Overview

The city of Davenport traces its beginnings to an
1832 treaty signed by Chief Keokuk of the Sauk
Indians, which transferred a fifty-mile strip of land along the Mississippi River from the Yellow River in the north to the Des Moines River in the south. Over the past 168 years, the resultant city has evolved from a frontier outpost to a premier gateway to the West, a commercial powerhouse on a prime river location to a Midwestern banking and financial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738507288
• ISBN13: 9780738507286
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"