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Keokuk: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born 1790? ā€¢ near Rock Island ā€¢ Illinois
Died 1848? ā€¢ Kansas

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Keokuk, Sauk chief; painting by J.O. Lewis done at the signing of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1825.
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