After the Louisiana Purchase a small tract was set up in southeastern Iowa called the halfbreed tract to accommodate the mixed bloods who were then important in this area. The tract included Keokuk. Montrose. and Fort Madison. Later the halfbreeds and their tract disappeared. swallowed up in the white tide of immigration from the east. In 1833 white settlement began in earnest and by 1838 there were enough white men in the area to organize the Iowa Territory. By the time of the admission of Iowa as a State in 1846 there was a swelling flood of immigration into this area. Most of these early pioneers came from Tennessee. Kentucky.
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