- Invitation to the Reader
- Iowa-a Personal Perspective
- 1. Iowa- The Land Unpossessed
- 2. We Occupy the Land and Organize It
- 3. We Proclaim the Land a State
- 4. We Come to the Land to Possess It
- 5. We Bring Our Ideals to the Land
- 6. We Fight for the Land
- 7. We Till the Land
- 8. We Build Our Towns on the Land
- 9. We Politick for the Land
- 10. We Enhance the Land with Learning and Art
- An Epilogue: The Land Still Unpossessed
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index