Identifier: whattoseeinameri00john Title: What to see in America Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: ular summer resort.Okoboji Lake near by is also attractive. Down toward the Iowa 275 southwest corner of the state is Council Bluffs, on the mainroute of the Union Pacific to California. Its namememorializes a council held with the Indians in the vicinityby the explorers, Lewis and Clark, in August, 1804. Aninteresting experiment in the city is the use of Boy Police-men to supplement the regular force. At Amana, in eastern Iowa, twenty miles southwest ofCedar Rapids, is the largest and most prosperous communisticsettlement in the country. The members of the society hereare 1800 Germans who style themselves Inspirationists.They cultivate 25,000 acres of land, keep flocks and herds,have sawmills and gristmills, and produce woolen and cottonfabrics. In their four churches, all under one roof, are heldquaint religious services. The roads in this section of Iowaare very bad in wet weather on account of gumbo, apeculiar soil that attains the limit of slippery stickinesswhen wet. ^.*sr^»eft

Text Appearing After Image: Quoits in the ViLLAdK W hkhe M.\iiK Twain Was Born XXX Missouri When Father Marquette and his companions came downthe Mississippi in 1673 their frail canoes were almost over-whelmed at the mouth of the Missouri, whose yellow torrentswept masses of driftwood, including entire uprooted trees,into the main stream with great violence. Marquette wasinterested to note that the clear water of the river from thenorth and the muddy torrent from the west continued sideby side without mixing for many miles. The Missouribears an Indian name, which means Big Muddy. It is2908 miles long, while the Mississippi above their point ofmeeting is only 1330 miles. The former contributes thelarger amount of water to the joint stream. It is subject totwo annual floods, one in May caused by the melting of snowon the lowland prairies, the other in June caused by themelting of the mountain snows. The earliest Missouri settlement was St. Genevieve, fifty 276 Missouri 277 miles down the Mississippi from St. Louis

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