German Button Maker Searched Rivers of American Midwest for Valuable Shells

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German Button Maker Searched Rivers of American Midwest for Valuable Shells

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How One German Button Maker Searched the Rivers of the American Midwest for the Shells That Could Make Him a Fortune

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John Boepple settled in Muscatine, Iowa, where he produced pearl buttons made from freshwater mussel shells. His innovations brought economic prosperity to the town—and disaster to the local mussel populations

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