Locke is a Louisville businessman who self-published his first book in 2009. He became the second writer this year to sell one million books on Amazon.com, through the company's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
The second commemorative quarter-dollar coin released in 2006 honors Nebraska, and is the 37th coin in the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters Â® Program. Nebraska, nicknamed the Cornhusker State, was admitted into the Union on March 1, 1867, becoming our Nation's 37th state.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The state nickname of Iowa is the Hawkeye State. It got this name from a newspaper that was called The Hawk-Eye which was named as a tribute to Chief Black Hawk.hare to: The term Hawkeye originally appeared in the book, The Last of the Mohicans, and was later used in its plural form to describe the people of Iowa.