Keokuk

• “Nicknaming — a prominent feature of core-group membership for Digger women and men — served a century earlier in Keokuk to create a jocular sociability between men of sharply different class positions, ethnicities, migration strategies, and regional origins.”

  Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83

• “A similar conviviality also figured prominently in Keokuk's masculine subcultures.”

  Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83

• “In the mid 1850s, Samuel Clemens, twenty-one years old and living in Keokuk, Iowa, read Lieutenant Lewis Herndon’s account of his exploration of the Amazon River for the U.S. Navy.”

  The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876

• “People who do not have access to the Internet should call the Keokuk or Fort Madison police departments or Lee County Sheriff's Office and register their telephone numbers.”

  News from www.dailygate.com

• “Close at hand two buoys marked the spots where the monitors "Keokuk" and "Weehawken" were sunk; and lashed to a mast-head of the latter, still visible above the water, was a small American flag floating in the breeze.”

  The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative

• “Charlestown Bar in May, 1862, and delivered her and his services to the commander of the United States blockading squadron; was appointed pilot in the United States navy, and served in that capacity on the monitor "Keokuk" in the attack on Fort Sumter; served as pilot in the quartermaster's department, and was promoted as captain for gallant and meritorious conduct December 1, 1863, and placed in command of”

  History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

• “Again, after a fierce battle with the fort, the Federal fleet drew off, leaving the "Keokuk" monitor sunk; only to concentrate troops and build heavy batteries, for persistent attempt to reduce the devoted city.”

  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

• “There were eight turreted ironclads, including the boasted double-turreted "Keokuk" and an immense plated frigate known as the Ironsides.”

  The Civil War in America

• “Harris and Col. Graham, seem to leave no doubt of the sinking of the "Keokuk" between nine and ten yesterday morning.”

  Journal of the Senate of South Carolina: Being the Session of 1862.

• “Is this one of those crazy laws you read about in Reader's Digest, like "It is illegal to walk a salamander after dark in Keokuk, Iowa"?”

  Fictionaut: Entering Massachusetts: Please Don't Hug the Republicans

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