New book about Cook Ranch arrives for Creek Days

   Charles W. Cook purchased about 12 square miles of prairie land from the Iowa Railroad Land Company in 1873.
   Cook would turn the land, located 3.5 miles north of Odebolt, into the largest contiguous farm under sole management in the history of Iowa.
   Cook named the ranch “Brookmont Farm” because he believed (incorrectly) that its brooks marked the divide between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.