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Endless golden cornfields and neat grids of fertile farmland spread across the vast plains of Iowa, where small river towns join Dutch and Danish settlements that retain their Old World charm. Des Moines; situated at the confluence of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, Iowa's capital city is both a modern metropolis and a sleepy prairie town. Founded in the 1840's as a military outpost, the city's fortunes have risen and fallen with the waters, and the great flood of 1993-when residents went nearly a month without drinkable water-made Des Moines the object of national attention. the floodwaters have needed, but the message they sent remains: life on the prairie is still a rugged affair. International acclaimed for its design is the Des Moines Art Center, with a large permanent display of 19th and 20th-century . Elk Horn: the largest rural Danish settlement in the country, Elk Horn is so authentically Danish that it has its own Danish Windmill.
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