Did you know there was once a life-changing line running up the center of Iowa? Many people don’t. This line ran north from the Painted Rocks bluffs of what is now Lake Red Rock into Hardin County by Steamboat Rock. The line may not have created a physical barrier, but it did leave an unfortunate mark on American history, effectively dividing Iowa’s inhabitants in the mid-1800s into two separate groups: Native Americans and pioneers. Iowa’s pioneer settlers were not the original inhabitants...