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Author:

Buchan, Don.

Title:

Potpourri : a collection of stories, yarns, historical facts and personality sketches, mostly about Iowa and Iowans / by Don Buchan.

Publisher:

s.n.,

Copyright Date:

1977

Description:

126 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Iowa--Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.--Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
Iowa--Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.--Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.

Contents:

First settlers reached Iowa Great Lakes in 1852 -- Iowa remembers Frank Gotch -- The Hawarden script or stamp money -- An Iowa mystery [Villisca] -- The Orton Bros. Circus -- TV's "Mrs. Olson" is really Iowa's Virginia Christine -- U.F.O. yarns, past and present -- The "Plain people" left their mark -- Coal at Linn Grove; mining at Peterson; oil boom at Sioux Rapids -- Horny people -- The case of the mysterious Mulatto -- Clarence Birdseye, "inventor" of frozen foods? Not so... -- Looking back... at the Lindbergh case -- Here is yesterday... wolves! -- The eighth wonder of the world -- Remember Walt Mason... at New Years? -- If you consider the greatest of all time, don't overlook Li'l Arthur -- The one time eighth wonder of the world, the Cardiff giant -- In the roaring twenties -- Early Indian problems in area related to Spirit Lake Massacre -- Remember the "Toby" tent shows... ? -- Folks dated time from the Pomeroy cyclone -- You can look it up... ! -- UFO's of 1879 and 1890 in Iowa -- Iowa had a real live "Batman" -- How the word "blizzard" was coined -- Remember Armistice Day... ? -- Acoholic: I had to do something.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)3639766

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)