The meat-packing industry changed significantly during the late 20th century and questions over profit, labor, and the byproducts of industry played out in Council Bluffs, Iowa after the opening of Beefland International. Beefland was the first, but not last, name the facility operated under while core contentions continued.
The meat-packing industry changed significantly during the late 20th century and questions over profit, labor, and the byproducts of industry played o...
The park in the heart of Council Bluffs was meant for a courthouse that was never built. The surrounding homes of the city's elite where Abe Lincoln once ate lunch were gradually replaced by commerce as the public space provided a platform for Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, and many more.
The park in the heart of Council Bluffs was meant for a courthouse that was never built. The surrounding homes of the city's elite where Abe Lincoln o...
Missouri River floods washed Peter Sarpy out of Traders Point, the old fur trade outpost from the days of Spanish Louisiana. Sarpy instead found the only dry crossing on that stretch of the river and established St. Mary. Sarpy's new town boomed with the steamboats from St. Louis and Nebraska's first town of Bellevue right across the river. By the end of the Civil War the river had washed away St. Mary and nothing of the town remains today.
Missouri River floods washed Peter Sarpy out of Traders Point, the old fur trade outpost from the days of Spanish Louisiana. Sarpy instead found the o...
