KEOKUK MARE . M, STANDARDBRED, ~1848
| This mare was probably named KEOKUK or OLD KEOKUK >> Mr. Richard Johnson,
of Scott County, Kentucky, had business interests in Keokuk,
Iowa, in the early fifties, probably locating land warrants, and he
bought a pair of mares in Keokuk to travel over the prairies, and
when he was through with his work lis brought the team home
with him to Scott County. He knew nothing whatever of the
breeding of those mares, but they were a good pair of drivers
and one of them was quite a smart roadster that he called "Old
Keokuk." He bred this mare, Keokuk, in 1858 to Mambrino
Chief, and in 1859 she produced the colt called Bay Chief.
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