Download or read book From Ackley to Zwingle written by Harold E. Dilts and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The towns of Iowa have been named for railroad magnates and saloon owners, poets and politicians, bulls and dogs, rivers and trees--and almost anything else that someone could dream up. This fascinating collection gives an account of the colorful, often humorous, and sometimes bizarre origins of over 1,200 Iowa place names.