Frederick Feikema Manfred was an American writer of Westerns, very much connected to his native region: the American Midwest, and the prairies of the West. He named the area where the borders of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska meet "Siouxland."
Manfred's house outside Luverne, Minnesota, now the Blue Mounds State Park interpretive center
Doon is a city in Lyon County, Iowa, United States, along the Rock River. The population was 619 at the time of the 2020 census. The BNSF Railway passes through Doon.
Main Street of Doon, Iowa in 2013
Main Street in 1922