Cedar County is the story of a newspaper reporter who quit his job in Seattle and went home to Iowa for a while. He lived alone for 13 months in Cedar County, a place where he had lived as a boy of 8 and returned to as a man of 52.

This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Cedar County, Iowa, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that.