Hawkeye State bestow the name on a white scout who lived and hunted with them. In 1838, 12 years after the book was published, people in the territory of Iowa acquired the nickname, chiefly through the efforts of Judge David Rorer of Burlington and James G. Edwards of Fort Madison. Edwards, editor of the Fort Madison Patriot, moved his newspaper to Burlington in 1843 and renamed it the Burlington Hawkeye. The two men continued their campaign to popularize the name and were rewarded when territorial officials gave it their formal approval. The Hawkeye nickname gained a tangible symbol in 1948 when a
State highways deleted by the Utah State Legislature in 1969 2.3 miles. The number was reused in 1975, when it was used to renumber the spur of SR-85 in Brigham City, itself a bypassed routing of US-91. State Route 91 was established May 14, 1935, and ran from Fairview at SR-32 (now US-89) northerly to Milburn. It was deleted in 1969 and the route number was reused in 1977 as the legislative designation for US-91. The road is now known as the Fairview Milburn Highway. State Route 92 was established May 14, 1935, and ran from SR-155 to Elmo. The number was not reused until the 1977 renumbering, for former