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Iowa's weirdest uprising: The great Cow War of 1931
It was the climax of the "Iowa Cow War," when 400 angry farmers armed with crude weapons faced off against 65 lawmen in a violent clash over the right to test cattle for tuberculosis. The ...
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Where did the moniker 'Florida Cracker' come from and what did it have to do with cows?
About 20 miles east of Lake Wales, just up the road from Highway 60, Lake Kissimmee State Park re-created an 1876 cow camp in the heart of Central Florida. A decade after the Civil War ...
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Quad-Cities filmmaker receives $40,000 Iowa Arts Council grant for documentary on Cow War
A state grant is helping a Quad-Cities filmmaker bring the Iowa Cow War to the screen. Stephen Folker received $40,000 through a Greenlight Grant from the Iowa Arts Council. Folker's film "Cow ...