Iowa, United States (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year."

"I go to college at the University of Iowa because the school has a great English program, and after graduation I stay in Iowa City at my first real “grown-up job” for six years."

"Did they slave so long just to go to an occasional Iowa picnic? What else is there?"

"The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores"

"He was born in Iowa in 1909, the younger of two sons, but the family soon moved to North Dakota, to Washington State, and then to Eastend, Saskatchewan."

"An afternoon of Iowa, …"

"In the novel that marked his literary debut, Stegner depicts the dramatic, moving story of an Iowa farm wife whose spirit is tested by a series of events as cruel and inevitable as the endless prairie winters."

"…from those other places they had learned to call home—Iowa, Chicago, Massachusetts."