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And we return to our American stories.

And up next, a story about when our 33rd president made an all-important visit to a small town in Iowa.

Here's our own Monty Montgomery with a story.

Dexter, Iowa is a small town with a lot of heart, and even though its population has never

exceeded a thousand people, there's a lot of history there.

The Barrow gang had a famous shootout there.

They hosted an amusement park at one point, and it was also once a presidential campaign

stop.

The presidential campaign stop for that election cycle.

Here's Rod Stanley with more on that.

September, 1948, President Truman came to Dexter, Iowa,

for the National Plowing Match.

And it was a big deal. The National Plowing Match. It was a big deal.

The national plowing match was a big, big deal.

But what exactly is a plowing match?

Roughly put, it's a competition to see who's the best farmer.

They judged them on, I mean, they judged them on different things.

They brought their tractors and their plowsows and there were judges that judged how well you plowed

the field, how straight it was, how open it was.

They had some other like conservation, like making a pond, they made a pond on my uncle's

farm.

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