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I·o·wa 1

 (ī′ə-wə)
n. pl. Iowa or I·o·was
1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of Iowa and southwest Minnesota, with present-day populations in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
2. The Siouan language of the Iowa.
[From French ayoés, ultimately from Dakota ayúxba.]
I′o·wa adj.

I·o·wa 2

 (ī′ə-wə) Abbr. IA or Ia.
A state of the north-central United States. It was admitted as the 29th state in 1846. Part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, Iowa was organized as a separate territory in 1838. The Mound Builders lived in the area in prehistoric times. Des Moines is the capital and the largest city.
I′o·wan adj.
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LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden--Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West.
During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had known long ago and whom both of us admired.
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An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler who had obtained permission to pass the night at his house.
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"I think he got aboard at Elexandria, up on the Iowa line."
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The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon.
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Yes; and it might be in a prohibition state, such as Iowa was in
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He was born on an Iowa farm, and his father had emigrated to eastern Oregon, in which mining country Elam's boyhood was lived.
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It was not as much as the value of the eggs laid during the last twelve months by the hens of Iowa.
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Louis paper of the '4th, we notice a terrible outrage at Burlington, Iowa. A Mr.
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