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- ↑ "Hoover Nature Trail". Iowa Trails. Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
- ↑ press-citizen.com | Local News
- ↑ Joseph P. Schwietertman, West Branch, Iowa (2,188), When the Railroad Leaves Town Truman State University Press, 2004; pages 140-144.
