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Definition of Keokuk
1. Noun. Sauk leader who aided the United States against Black Hawk (1790-1848).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keokuk
Literary usage of Keokuk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by University of the State of New York (1903)
"New York state museum memoir 2. 1898. p. 189, fig. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42. Keokuk beds
Crawfordsville and Indian Creek Ind. 152 ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Martha Joanna Lamb, Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, John Austin Stevens (1889)
"Keokuk was of medium height and somewhat stout, but graceful and commanding. ...
Keokuk accepted, and with a mounted escort of Indians appeared at Nauvoo. ..."
3. Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles by Nelson Appleton Miles, Marion Perry Maus (1896)
"Keokuk has been the cause of what I am, but I do not hate him. I love to look
upon the Mississippi. I have looked upon it from a child. ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"For some years prior to December 1, 1914, in- ^terstate passenger rates between St.
Louis 2 and Keokuk on the one hand and points in • Illinois on the other ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Keokuk, called the Power City and the Gate City, is served by five railroads and
several water transportation lines. The old single deck bridge at this ..."
6. Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Iowa, to the Thirteenth by Iowa Geological Survey, Charles Abiathar White (1870)
"The Keokuk limestone consists in Iowa of about fifty feet in maximum thickness of
... It is well developed and largely exposed at the city of Keokuk, ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"Keokuk, a SE county of Iowa, drained by Skunk river ; area, ... Keokuk, a city
of Lee co., Iowa, situated in the SE corner of the state, at the foot of the ..."