Acknowledgements

This exhibit was made possible through the generosity of The Roy J. Carver Trust, William B. Quarton, The Herbert Hoover Foundation of Iowa, The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, and over 60 lenders!

Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Abraham Lincoln Museum
Ash Lawn-Highland, Home of James Monroe
Andy Ball
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
Center for Faulkner Studies, Southeast Missouri State University
Clinton Showboat
Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Delta Blues Museum
Des Moines County Historical Society
Effigy Mounds National Monument, National Park Service
Galena State Historic Sites, Ulysses S. Grant Home
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
George M. Verity Riverboat Museum
Maureen Harding
Hermitage, Home of Andrew Jackson
James Hicks
Tom and Jane Hildreth
Historic New Orleans Collection
John Deere Archives
John James Audubon Museum
John Koza
James Leonardo
Lincoln Museum
Louis Armstrong House and Archives
Mark Twain Cave
Mark Twain Home and Museum
Mark Twain House
Mark Twain Papers and Project, University of California at Berkeley
Minnesota Historical Society
Mississippi River Visitor Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Missouri Historical Society Library
Garrett Moffett
Muscatine Art Center
My Old Kentucky Home State Park
National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium
New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, Ltd.
Old Fort Madison
Paul Bunyan Logging Camp
Pearl Button Museum
Chuck Pietscher
Charles Pope
Chad Pregracke, Living Lands and Waters
Putnam Museum of History and Science
Floyd Risvold
Rock Island Arsenal Museum
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Matt Schaefer
Barbara Skerry
Lynn Smith
State Historical Society of Iowa
Bill Street
Dave Thomson
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Voodoo Spiritual Temple of New Orleans
Washington Community Theater
Margaret Wolf
Virginia Woods
Michael Zahs
and last but not least, a lender who wishes to remain anonymous

Early Exploration and Development

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