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CHAPTER I
THE RICH GIFTS OF NATURE
NORTHWESTERN IOWA THE PRODUCT OF GLACIAL DRIFTS
- ONLY A CORNER OF THE STATE DRIFTLESS - THE
ICE FIELDS FROM THE NORTH - TRACINGS OF THEIR EDGES OR
MORAINES - THE THREE GLACIERS WHICH INVADED NORTHWESTERN
IOWA - THE NEBRASKA DRIFT -EXPOSURES OF THE
BED ROCKS IN THE BIG SIOUX AND MISSOURI VALLEYS - THE
SIOUX QUARTZITE - THE CRETACEOUS ROCKS OF THE GREAT
PLAINS - HOW THE NEBRASKAN ICE SHEET GATHERED ITS
TILL - THE WISCONSIN GLACIAL EPOCH
- AREA COVERED BY THE ICE FIELD - HOW IT
MOLDED THE EASTERN SECTION OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA -
DIVERTS THE DRAINAGE OF THE LAND WESTWARD - THE GREAT
MISSISSIPPI-MISSOURI DIVIDE FIXED - THE KANSAN DRIFT
COVERS A LARGE PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA - THE RICH,
BUT IRREGULAR LAYER OF LOESS - THE GREAT AREA OF THE
KANSAN DRIFT REGION - DEPOSITS OF GRAVEL IN VALLEYS AND
HILLS - THE RIVERS AND DRAINAGE OF NORTHWESTERN
IOWA - ITS LAKES - ALTITUDES OF VARIOUS
LOCALITIES - PITCH OF THE REGION WHERE ALL VALLEYS MERGE
INTO THE MISSOURI - WHY SOIL, RAINFALL, TOPOGRAPHY AND
CLIMATE MADE NORTHWESTERN IOWA THE LAND OF PLENTY...
CHAPTER II
THE EVOLUTION OF IOWA
EARLY
EXPLORATIONS IN AMERICA - THE "RIGHT OF DISCOVERY"
- MARQUETTE AND JOLIET - LA SALLE'S
EXPEDITIONS - CONFLICTING INTERESTS -
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR - GEN. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
- LOUISIANA PURCHASE - TREATY OF PARIS
- IOWA UNDER VARIOUS JURISDICTIONS -
TERRITORY OF IOWA - THE FIGHT FOR ADMISSION
- ORGANIZATION OF COUNTIES
CHAPTER III
EARLY EXPLORATIONS
THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION IN IOWA
- DEATH OF SERGEANT FLOYD - FIRST RECORD OF
A WHITE MAN'S BURIAL IN IOWA - PIKE'S
EXPEDITION - THE FUR TRADERS -
ANOTHER TRIBUTE TO SERGEANT FLOYD - THE FIRST FORT
MADISON - KEARNY'S EXPEDITION FROM THE MISSOURI TO THE
MISSISSIPPI - CATLIN AND MAXIMILIAN AT FLOYD'S GRAVE -
THE ALLEN-SCHOOLCRAFT EXPEDITION - KEARNY BUILDS FIRST
FORT DES MOINES - TROOPERS FIGHT SIOUX IN NORTHWESTERN
IOWA - LEA'S "NOTES ON WISCONSIN
TERRITORY" - CAPTAIN ALLEN ENCIRCLES NORTHWESTERN
IOWA - ESTABLISHES FINAL FORT DES MOINES
- THE CAPTAIN STARTS ON HIS EXPEDITION -
TRAVELS UP THE DES MOINES INTO THE LAKE COUNTRY -
FLOUNDERS AMONG "INTERMINABLE LAKES" - SEEKS
HEADWATERS OF THE DES MOINES AND MINNESOTA - SIOUX FALLS
AND THE SIOUX QUARTZITE - DOWN THE VALLEY OF THE BIG
SIOUX - WHERE THE BIG SIOUX AND THE MISSOURI
JOIN - THE SHORT CUT TO FORT DES MOINES...
CHAPTER IV
INDIAN OCCUPATION
ORIGIN OF THE NAME "INDIAN"
- THE MOUND BUILDERS - MOUNDS IN
IOWA - THE INDIANS - THE
IOWA - THE SAC AND THE FOX -
KEOKUK AND BLACK HAWK - METANEQUA, THEIR LAST WAR
CHIEF - THE POTAWATTOMI - THE
WINNEBAGO - THE SIOUX -
ACQUISITION OF THE INDIAN LANDS - TREATIES OF 1804 AND
1816 - THE HALF-BREED TRACT
- TREATY OF 1825 - THE NEUTRAL
GROUND - THE BLACK HAWK PURCHASE
- TREATY OF CHICAGO - TREATY OF
1837 - TREATY OF 1842 - LAST OF
THE TREATIES AFFECTING IOWA LANDS - INDIAN PROBLEM IN
IOWA NOT SETTLED - THE SIOUX THE LAST TO
LEAVE - FORT DODGE ESTABLISHED AND ABANDONED
- INDIAN DEPREDATIONS RENEWED - HENRY LOTT
AND THE MURDER OF THE SIOUX CHIEF, SIDOMINADOTA -
SETTLERS MOVE UP THE DES MOINES AND LITTLE SIOUX RIVERS
- THEY INVADE THE LAKE REGION, THE TRADITIONAL HOME OF THE
SIOUX - INKPADUTA'S BAND OF BAD SIOUX PASS UP THE LITTLE
SIOUX - THE TERRIBLE MASSACRE AROUND THE SHORES OF THE
OKOBOJI LAKES - CAPTURE OF FOUR WOMEN AND THEIR AWFUL
JOURNEY INTO DAKOTA - DEATH OF mRS. THATCHER AND MRS.
NOBLE - RANSOM OF MRS. MARBLE AND ABBIE
GARDNER - THE AFTER LIFE OF INKPADUTA
- THE SIOUX FINALLY MOVED FROM MINNESOTA TO DAKOTA TERRITORY.....
CHAPTER V
ADVANCE OF THE NORTHWESTERN FRONTIER
BONDS BETWEEN THE FLOYDS AND CLARKS -
FLOYD'S BLUFF - BUILDING OF THE FLOYD
MEMORIAL - THE FIRST SETTLER OF WOODBURY
COUNTY - ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY
- THE LAST OF THOMPSON - THEOPHILE BRUGUIER
AND WAR EAGLE - JOSEPH LEONAIS PURCHASES OF BRUGUIER
- DIES AS A GENTLEMAN FARMER - THE FOUNDING
OF SIOUX CITY - HOW THE SITE OF THE CITY WAS
SAVED - THE MORMON SETTLEMENTS OF 1849-53-SMITHVILLE,
WOODBURY COUNTY - FIRST SETTLERS IN CRAWFORD
COUNTY - DELOIT AND DOW CITY -
MORMONS STILL ACTIVELY ORGANIZED - THE FOUNDING OF
DENSION - MORMON SETTLEMENT AT PREPARATION, MONONA
COUNTY - TWO SETTLERS PRECEDE THE MORMONS
- THE WHITING SETTLEMENT FOUNDED - EARLY
SETTLEMENT OF CALHOUN COUNTY - SETTLEMENT AT WEST BEND,
PALO ALTO COUNTY - THE IRISH COLONY
- THE NORTHWESTERN FRONTIER STILL ADVANCING
- CRITICAL END OF THE PIONEER PERIOD...
CHAPTER VI
PIONEER LIFE AND CUSTOMS
BEGINNING OF ANOTHER ERA - THE CIVIL
WAR AND RAILROADS CLOSE THE ERA - PIONEERING IN
NORTHWESTERN IOWA - MUSKRAT PELTS FOR MONEY
- PRAIRIE BLIZZARDS AND FIRES - THE BURNING
OF CORN FOR FUEL - EARLY CABINS, OUTSIDE AND
INSIDE - FIRST HOMES FOR MERE PROTECTION
- THE CLAIM CABINS MORE FINISHED - DOORS,
WINDOWS AND THE CHIMNEY - THE SOUND OF THE NAIL HAMMER
NOT HEARD - ROOMS AND FURNISHINGS
- BREAKING PRAIRIE - OUTFIT FOR
PRAIRIE-BREAKING - PRAIRIE-BREAKING BRIGADES
- SAD PASSING OF THE OLD TIMES - WILD GAME
FOR FOOD AND SPORT - CLOTHING OF THE
PIONEERS - RECREATIONS AND AMUSEMENTS...
CHAPTER VII
AGRICULTURE AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES
THE GRAIN TRADE AS THE NATION'S MAIN EXPANDING
FORCE - COMPARATIVE VALUE OF WHEAT AND CORN
- DRAWBACKS AND EXPANSIONS IN NORTHWESTERN IOWA
- THE GRASSHOPPER AND CHINCH BUG PLAGUES -
THE GRASSHOPPER INVASION OF 1873 AND 1874 - RELIEF OF
GRASSHOPPER-STRICKEN DISTRICTS - THE CHINCH BUG ALSO
FIGHTS THE WHEAT FARMERS - CHANGING
CONDITIONS - GOLDEN BELT OF NORTHWESTERN
IOWA - PLYMOUTH AND WOODBURY COUNTIES
- CRAWFORD AND MONONA - SIOUX AND
LYON - THREE RICH INTERIOR COUNTIES
- IDA, CARROLL AND GREENE COUNTIES -
CHEROKEE AND BUENA VISTA - HALF A DOZEN REPRESENTATIVE
NORTHERN COUNTIES - EMMET AND DICKINSON
- OSCEOLA - THE MAIN DEDUCTION...
CHAPTER VIII
TRANSPORTATION BY LAND AND WATER
SIOUX CITY AS A STEAMBOAT TOWN -
SIOUX CITY IN 1868 - THE COMING AND GOING OF A RIVER
STEAMBOAT - STEAMBOAT TRAFFIC -
ATTEMPTED NAVIGATION OF THE DES MOINES RIVER - THE
SAWYER WAGON ROADS TO THE MONTANA GOLD FIELDS -
RAILROADS OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA - CONGRESS ENCOURAGES
RAILROAD BUILDING, 1850-55 - FOUR IOWA RAILROADS
PROJECTED - IOWA LINES TO CONNECT WITH THE UNION
PACIFIC - SIOUX CITY & ST. PAUL RAILROAD
- THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL -
SECTION OF THE NORTHWESTERN BUILT - JOHN I. BLAIR,
FATHER OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA RAILROADS - IOWA FALL &
SIOUX CITY RAILROAD - CEDAR RAPIDS & MISSOURI RIVER
RAILROAD, 1866-68 - COMPLETION OF IOWA FALLS & SIOUX
CITY RAILROAD - ABSORPTIONS BY PRESENT-DAY
RAILROADS - HOW BLAIR NEARLY GOT CONTROL OF THE DAKOTA
SOUTHERN - DES MOINES RIVER GRANT REVERTS TO RAILROAD
PROJECTS - STIMULATING VALUE OF RAILROADS
IMMEASURABLE - THE AUTOMOBILE, A NEW PROBLEM
- ELECTRIC AND AUTO-BUS LINES - IMPROVEMENT
OF IOWA'S PUBLIC HIGHWAYS - THE FUTURE OF THE GOOD ROADS
MOVEMENT...
CHAPTER IX
NORTHWESTERN BORDER INDIAN WARFARE
PROTECTING THE NORTHWESTERN FRONTIER
- THE MINUTE MEN - THE FRONTIER
GUARDS - THE SIOUX CITY CAVALRY
- THE SIXTH AND SEVENTH IOWA CAVALRY REGIMENTS
- THE BATTLE OF WHITE STONE HILL - NORTHERN
BORDER BRIGADE - FORT DEFIANCE, ESTHERVILLE
- LAST MILITARY FORCE ON THE IOWA BORDER...
CHAPTER X
THEY DID THEIR PART
IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - VICTIMS
OF TYPHOID FEVER - THE FIFTY-FIRST REGIMENT OF
INFANTRY - THE FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT
- TROOPS FOR THE MEXICAN BORDER
CHAPTER XI
NORTHWESTERN IOWA IN THE WORLD WAR
IOWA PROMPTLY SUPPORTS CONGRESS - ONE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHTH U. S. REGIMENT OFF FOR FRANCE -
STATE FLAG PRESENTED TO THE "OLD THIRD" -
IDENTITY OF STATE REGIMENTS LOST - PREPARATIONS FOR
BATTLE - AT THE BATTLE FRONT -
SOME HEROES OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA - GERMANS CHECKED AT
THE MARNE - LIEUTENANT LAURENS C. SHULL
- AMERICAN ARMY DRIVES GERMANS BEYOND THE MEUSE
- CLEARING THE ARGONNE FOREST OF GERMANS -
IOWA TROOPS SEIZE THE HEIGHTS OF SEDAN - NORTHWESTERN
IOWA SOLDIERS HONORED - THE GOLD STARS FROM TWENTY
COUNTIES - NORTHWESTERN IOWA IN WELFARE WORK...
CHAPTER XII
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM BASED ON TOWNSHIPS
- CHANGES IN SCHOOL GOVERNMENT - REVISION OF
SCHOOL LAWS - COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS - THE COMING OF THE INSTITUTES
- BOARDS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS -
SCHOOLS IN THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD - IN THE LATE
'60S - EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN THE '70S
- COUNTY SUPERINTENDENCY OPENED TO WOMEN -
COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE - RISE OF THE SCHOOL LIBRARY
IDEA - NORTHWESTERN IOWA ACADEMIES AND
COLLEGES - NORTHWESTERN NORMAL SCHOOL AND BUSINESS
COLLEGE - THE BUENA VISTA COLLEGE
- MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE - COUNTY UNIFORMITY OF
TEXT BOOKS - ASSOCIATIONS OF TEACHERS
- LONG STEP TOWARD EDUCATIONAL DEMOCRACY -
TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOLS - THE VALUE OF SCHOOL
LIBRARIES - CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS
- THE NORMAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOLS - THE
STANDARDIZED RURAL SCHOOLS - A BUSY GENERAL
ASSEMBLY - TEACHERS' MINIMUM WAGES
- POST-WAR LEGISLATION - PART-TIME
SCHOOLS - LATE LEGISLATION AND PRESENT LAWS
- VOCATIONAL EDUCATION - ENROLLMENT AND A AVERAGE
DAILY ATTENDANCE...
CHAPTER XIII
THE PRESS OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA
NEWSPAPERDOM GETS FOOTHOLD IN NORTHWESTERN IOWA
- THE SIOUX CITY JOURNAL AND GEORGE D. PERKINS
- THE SIOUX CITY TRIBUNE - OTHER PAPERS
PUBLISHED IN WOODBURY COUNTY - NEWSPAPER EXPANSION FROM
THE SOUTHEAST - THE BOYER VALLEY RECORD, OF
DENISON - THE DENISON REVIEW -
THE DENISON BULLETIN - OUTSIDE OF DENISON
- THE CARROLL HERALD - THE CARROLL
TIMES - NEWSPAPERS OUTSIDE THE COUNTY SEAT
- GREENE COUNTY NEWSPAPERS - ESTHERVILLE
VINDICATOR AND REPUBLICAN - FRONTIER
JOURNALISM - THE ESTHERVILLE DEMOCRAT AND ESTHERVILLE
ENTERPRISE - OTHER NEWSPAPERS OF THE COUNTY
- FRONTIER JOURNALISM OF THE '70S - THE
SPIRIT LAKE BEACON - CLAY COUNTY'S
NEWSPAPERS - PRESS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY
- THE SECOND CHEROKEE CHIEF - A STIRRING
SENTINEL - SC AND MONONA COUNTIES
- O'BRIEN A PIONEER NEWSPAPER COUNTY -
NEWSPAPER KING OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA - OSCEOLA COUNTY
NEWSPAPERS - LYON COUNTY'S FIRST EDITOR
- PRESS OF IDA AND SIOUX COUNTIES - INTERIOR
NEWSPAPER COUNTIES - THE STORM LAKE PILOT
- FIRST CALHOUN COUNTY NEWSPAPERS -
JOURNALISTIC SPIRIT APPEARS IN PALO ALTO COUNTY - PIONEER
NEWSPAPER CONVENIENCES - FONDA TIMES, POCAHONTAS
COUNTY - REPRESENTATIVE WESTERN JOURNALISM...
CHAPTER XIV
THE JUDGES AND LAWYERS
PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NORTHWESTERN IOWA
- BIRTH OF JURISPRUDENCE AND PRACTICE - NEW
ENGLAND DIGNITY SHOCKED - JUDGES MOORE AND
HUBBARD - EPOCH IN NORTHWESTERN JUDICATURE
- A JUDICIAL CONTRAST - CIRCUIT COURTS
CREATED - ADDISON OLIVER - OTHER
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES - JUDGES OF THE THREE
DISTRICT COURTS SINCE 1887 - LOT THOMAS
- JAMES P. CONNER - SUPREME COURT JUDGES
FROM NORTHWESTERN IOWA - GIFFORD S. ROBINSON, SCOTT M.
LADD AND FRANK R. GAYNOR - LESLIE M. SHAW, A NATIONAL
CHARACTER - NORTHWESTERN IOWA
LAWYER-CONGRESSMEN - ISAAC S. STRUBLE, ELBERT H. HUBBARD
AND WILLIAM D. BOIES...
CHAPTER XV
MEDICAL HISTORY
BY DR. J. N. WARREN
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY -
PIONEER DOCTORS - SIOUX CITY PHYSICIANS
- SIOUX CITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - SIOUX
VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION - SIOUX CITY
HOSPITALS - PRACTITIONERS IN WOODBURY COUNTY
- PICAHONTAS COUNTY (NOTES BY DR. A. W. PATTERSON)
- THE PROFESSION IN BUENA VISTA COUNTY -
MEDICAL MEN OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY - CLAY COUNTY
- PRACTITIONERS OF THE O'BRIEN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
- CARROLL COUNTY MEDICAL ME - PALO ALTO
COUNTY - MEDICAL HISTORY OF OSCEOLA COUNTY
- ITS PRACTITIONERS - DICKINSON COUNTY
(NOTES BY DR. C. S. SHULTZ) - SIOUX COUNTY
PHYSICIANS - DICKINSON COUNTY PHYSICIANS,
1886-1926 - DOCTORS OF EMMET COUNTY
- MEDICAL HISTORY OF SAC COUNTY - MONONA
COUNTY - MEDICAL HISTORY OF IDA COUNTY (NOTES BY DR. G.
C. MOORHEAD)...
CHAPTER XVI
CHURCH LIFE OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA
WOODBURY COUNTY AS A RELIGIOUS CENTER
- PIONEER PROTESTANT CHURCHES OF SIOUX CITY
- METHODIST EPISCOPAL - THE ASSASSINATION OF
DR. HADDOCK - OTHER METHODIST CHURCHES
- THE METHODIST HOSPITAL - EARLY
PRESBYTERIANISM - CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
- THE EPISCOPALIANS - BAPTISTS
ESTABLISHED - CATHOLICITY IN SIOUX CITY
- ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL - ST. BENEDICT'S
YOUNG LADIES' HOME - CONVENT OF THE GOOD
SHEPHERD - THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHES
- THE THRIFTY LUTHERANS - THE LUTHERAN
GENERAL HOSPITAL - THE BAPTIST ORGANIZATIONS
- DISCIPLES OF CHRIST AND OTHERS - SIOUX
CITY'S AFFILIATED CHARITIES - EARLY CHURCHES OF MONONA
COUNTY - THE METHODISTS OF CRAWFORD COUNTY
- THE LUTHERANS IN THE COUNTY - PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES - THE EPISCOPALIANS OBTAIN A
FOOTHOLD - THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CRAWFORD
COUNTY - THE CATHOLICS OF MOUNT CARMEL
- EXPANSION TO CARROLL AND ELSEWHERE -
PIONEER PROTESTANT CHURCHES - THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH - TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
- OTHER METHODIST CHURCHES IN CALHOUN COUNTY
- THE CONGREGATIONALISTS AND LUTHERANS - THE
PRESBYTERIANS AND BAPTISTS - THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST - THE CATHOLICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY
- CHURCH PIONEERING IN CLAY COUNTY -
"LONG TODD" AND "SHORT TODD" -
RELIGIOUS OUTPOSTS OF NORTHWESTERN IOWA - ESTHERVILLE
AND EMMET COUNTY - PIONEER METHODISM IN O'BRIEN
COUNTY - OTHER METHODIST CHURCHES
- THE CONGREGATIONALISTS AND FRIENDS IN O'BRIEN COUNTY
- THE LUTHERANS AND ALLIED SECTARIANS - HOW
PRESBYTERIANISM IS REPRESENTED IN O'BRIEN COUNTY - THE
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE COUNTY - OTHER
CHURCHES - FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN PALO ALTO
COUNTY - THE COMING OF THE METHODISTS TO
SIBLEY - CATHOLICS ALSO PIONEERS IN OSCEOLA
COUNTY - OTHER CHURCHES AT SIBLEY
- THE GOSPEL IN LYON COUNTY - PRESBYTERIANS,
PIONEER PROTESTANTS - THE LIZARD CATHOLICS
- THE METHODISTS OF ROLFE - OTHER
CHURCHES - UPRISING OF BUENA VISTA CHURCHES
- METHODISTS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS IN CHEROKEE
- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN THE COUNTY - THE
CATHOLICS - EVANGELICAL, LUTHERAN AND OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS - SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE
- PLYMOUTH COUNTY CHURCHES...
CHAPTER XVII
THE BACKGROUND OF THE COUNTIES
THE CREATION OF COUNTIES - SIZE AND
BOUNDARIES - CHANGING BOUNDARIES AND NAMING
COUNTIES - DATE OF ORGANIZING ACT AND FIRST
ELECTIONS - SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
- POPULATION AND LAND AREA - MORE BACKGROUND
OF THE COUNTIES
CHAPTER XVIII
BUENA VISTA COUNTY
NATURAL FEATURES - ORGANIZED UNDER
THE COUNTY JUDGE SYSTEM - THOSE WHO SETTLED PRIOR TO
COUNTY ORGANIZATION - THE UNIQUE ABNER BELL
- THE INDIAN RAID OF 1857 - SIOUX RAPIDS OF
1858 - THE COUNTY ORGANIZED -
THE FIRST COUNTY SEAT - ISOLATION OF THE
SETTLERS - THE DARK DAYS OF THE '60S
- TRIUMPH OF GOOD GOVERNMENT - W. S. LEE AND
ABNER BELL - FIRST SETTLEMENT AT STORM LAKE
- COUNTY SHAPING ITSELF - A RAILROAD AND
THREE NEW TOWNS - NEWELL, STORM LAKE AND
ALTA - SIOUX RAPIDS AND THE COUNTY SEAT
CONTESTS - OTHER TOWNS - THE
COUNTY AS A WHOLE...
CHAPTER XIX
CALHOUN COUNTY
DRAINAGE OF THE COUNTY - STEPS TOWARD
COUNTY ORGANIZATION - FIRST SETTLERS OF CALHOUN
COUNTY - ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY
- THE TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY - CALHOUN,
LINCOLN, JACKSON, CEDAR, GREENFIELD, WILLIAMS, SHERMAN, CENTER, BUTLER, READING,
ELM GROVE, TWIN LAKES, UNION, LOGAN, LAKE CREEK, AND GARFIELD
- LAKE CITY - POMEROY
- MANSON - ROCKWELL CITY
- THREE COURTHOUSES ERECTED IN ROCKWELL CITY
- THE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN - LOHRWILLE...
CHAPTER XX
CARROLL COUNTY
FORTY-NINE COUNTIES CREATED - STEPS
TOWARD CARROLL COUNTY'S ORGANIZATION - A JUMPER AND A
PERMANENT SETTLER - CARROLL COUNTY ORGANIZED
- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COUNTY SEAT -
POPULATION OF THE COUNTY, 1856 - THE CITY OF
CARROLL - THE TOWN OF MANNING -
O. E. DUTTON AND D. W. SUTHERLAND - COON
RAPIDS - GLIDDEN - OTHER TOWNS
AND STATIONS...
CHAPTER XXI
CHEROKEE COUNTY
FIRST SETTLERS - THE MILFORD (MASS.)
WESTERN EMIGRATION SOCIETY - FOUNDING OF ORIGINAL
CHEROKEE - BLAIR CITY AND NEW CHEROKEE
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY ORGANIZATION -
FIRST BRIDGE AND FERRY IN THE COUNTY - EXIT OF THE
COUNTY JUDGE GOVERNMENT - THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
GOVERNMENT - FIRST COURTHOUSE -
THE FORMATION OF TOWNSHIPS - CHEROKEE, PILOT, WILLOW, SPRING,
AFTON, CEDAR, PITCHER, AMHERST, LIBERTY, SHERIDAN, SILVER, TILDEN, DIAMOND,
MARCUS, ROCK AND GRAND MEADOW TOWNSHIPS - CITY OF
CHEROKEE - TOWN OF MARCUS...
CHAPTER XXII
CLAY COUNTY
THE COUNTY ORGANIZED - THE PIONEERS
OF CLAY COUNTY - THE COUNTY SEAT AND THE
COURTHOUSES - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CLAY COUNTY
- PETERSON - THE CITY OF SPENCER...
CHAPTER XXIII
CRAWFORD COUNTY
STEPS IN COUNTY ORGANIZATION -
FLITTING SETTLERS AND PERMANENT - THE MORMON
IMMIGRATION - DELOIT AND DOW CITY
- THE CITY OF DENISON - REGULAR COUNTY
OFFICERS AND COUNTY SEAT - RAILROADS AND
STATIONS - THE SWEDES OF OTTER CREEK VALLEY
- KIRON - SCHLESWIG AND THE
GERMANS - MANILLA - CHARTER OAK,
VAIL AND WEST SIDE - FORMATION OF THE TOWNSHIPS...
CHAPTER XXIV
DICKINSON COUNTY
EARLY SETTLEMENTS - THE MASSACRE AND
ITS MEMORIALS - MRS. SHARP'S DEATH AND THE GARDNER
CABIN - SETTLEMENT AFTER THE MASSACRE
- SETTLERS STILL UNEASY - DICKINSON COUNTY
ORGANIZED UNDER DIFFICULTIES - STARE AND JUDICIAL
REPRESENTATIVES - THE LAYING OF TITLES
- THE MILL CONTROVERSY - FOUNDING OF SPIRIT
LAKE - THE COURTHOUSES - SPIRIT
LAKE OF TODAY - MILFORD AND LAKE PARK
- OTHER TOWNS - FORMATION OF TOWNSHIPS...
CHAPTER XXV
EMMET COUNTY
LAKES AND RIVERS - THOSE WHO CAME
FIRST - EMMET COUNTY ORGANIZED -
ESTHERVILLE, THE COUNTY SEAT - ADOLPHUS JENKINS AND
ROBERT E. RIDLEY - THE FIRST COURTHOUSE
- THE BUILDING OF FORT DEFIANCE - COUNTY
SEAT SHIFTS BETWEEN SWAN LAKE AND ESTHERVILLE - COUNTY
SEAT A FIXTURE - PROGRESS AND PRESENT STATUS OF
ESTHERVILLE - ARMSTRONG AND RINGSTED
- OTHER TOWNS AND RAILROAD STATIONS - THE
TOWNSHIPS OF EMMET COUNTY...
CHAPTER XXVI
GREENE AND SAC COUNTIES
DRAINAGE AND NATURAL FEATURES OF GREENE COUNTY
- SETTLEMENT BEFORE ORGANIZATION - EVOLUTION
OF GREENE COUNTY - GREENE COUNTY ORGANIZED
- JEFFERSON, THE COUNTY SEAT - HOLDING
OF FIRST DISTRICT COURT - GREENE COUNTY
TOWNSHIPS - THE TOWN OF JEFFERSON
- GRAND JUNCTION - OTHER TOWNS
- SAC COUNTY CLOSELY CONNECTED WITH GREENE - PRIOR TO
SEPARATE ORGANIZATION - FIRST SETTLERS OF THE
COUNTY - COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND COUNTY SEAT
- SAC CITY - THE TOWN OF OBEBOLT
- OTHER COUNTY TOWNS...
CHAPTER XXVII
IDA COUNTY
THE PIONEER SETTLERS - COUNTY AND
TOWNSHIPS ORGANIZED - THE COUNTY SEAT
LOCATED - FIXING OF THE NAME IDA
- THE COMING OF THE MOOREHEAD FAMILY - FIRST
SURGICAL OPERATION - TOWN SITE SURVEYED
- WILD GAME OF ALL KINDS - FIRST TEACHERS
AND MARRIAGES - FIRST MINISTER AND FIRST
DEATH - ADDITIONS TO SETTLEMENT
- VILLAGE OF IDA AND TOWN OF IDA GROVE -
TOWN OF BATTLE CREEK - GALVA FOUNDED
- TOWN OF HOLSTEIN - ARTHUR, THE GREAT
POPCORN CENTER...
CHAPTER XXVIII
LYON AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES
NATURAL DRAINAGE OF LYON COUNTY - AS
BUNCOMBE COUNTY - DEATH BY SAVAGE AND FLOOD
- PERMANENT SETTLERS COME - BELOIT
FOUNDED - DOON FOUNDED AT THE FORKS
- ROCK RAPIDS OF THE NORTH - LYON COUNTY
ORGANIZED - COUNTY SEAT PERMANENTLY LOCATED
- DEVELOPMENT OF ROCK RAPIDS - OTHER
TOWNS - PHYSICAL FEATURES OF OSCEOLA COUNTY
- DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY - SEPARATE
POLITICAL ORGANIZATION - SIBLEY, THE COUNTY
SEAT - OTHER TOWNS...
CHAPTER XXIX
O'BRIEN AND SIOUX COUNTIES
DRAINAGE OF O'BRIEN COUNTY - ITS
POLITICAL BIRTH - THE FIRST CITIZEN AND HIS
FAMILY - COUNTY SEATS AND COURTHOUSES
- COUNTY SEAT MOVED TO THE PRAIRIE (PRIMGHAR)
- FOUNDING OF SHELDON - SANBORN
FOUNDED - A TRIANGULAR COUNTY SEAT CONTEST
- FOURTH COUNTY SEAT CONTEST - THE CITY OF
SHELDON - THE TOWN OF SANBORN -
THE TOWN OF HARTLEY - PAULLINA AND OTHER
TOWNS - SIOUX COUNTY - HOW
OBTAINED FROM THE INDIANS - THE COUNTY'S POLITICAL
DEVELOPMENT - FIRST COUNTY SEAT, CALLIOPE
- BUTCH COLONIZATION AND ORANGE CITY - THE
CITY OF HAWARDEN - THE TOWN OF ALTON
- SIOUX CENTER AND ROCK VALLEY - HULL,
IRETON AND OTHER TOWNS...
CHAPTER XXX
PLYMOUTH AND MONONA COUNTIES
DRAINAGE AND TOPOGRAPHY OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY
- A COUNTY BEFORE HAVING SETTLERS - EARLY
SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY - COUNTY SEATS AND TOWN SITES
PROJECTED - PLYMOUTH COUNTY ORGANIZED
- CITY OF LEMARS, THE COUNTY SEAT - COUNTY
SEATS AND COURTHOUSES - THE ENGLISH COLONY AT LEMARS
- THE TOWN OF AKRON - REMSEN AND KENGSLEY
- OTHER TOWNS - NATURAL FEATURES OF MONONA
COUNTY - HOW OBTAINED AND POLITICALLY
CREATED - PERMANENT SETTLEMENT AND POLITICAL
ESTABLISHMENT - SHIFTING OF COUNTY SEAT
- FIXING OF THE COUNTY BOUNDARIES - THE CITY
OF ONAWA - THE TOWN OF MAPLETON
- THE WHITING PIONEERS - THE TOWN OF
WHITING - TOWN OF UTE -
OTHER TOWNS...
CHAPTER XXXI
POCAHONTAS AND PALO ALTO COUNTIES
PICAHONTAS COUNTY IN GENERAL -
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COUNTY - EVENTS PRECEDING COUNTY
ORGANIZATION - LAST INDIAN BATTLE IN POCAHONTAS
COUNTY - FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN COUNTY
- LIZARD AND DES MOINES SETTLEMENTS -
POCAHONTAS COUNTY ORGANIZED - OLE ROLFE
- BUILDING OF COURTHOUSE AND BRIDGE -
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTY SEAT - THE NEW COUNTY SEAT,
POCAHONTAS - TOWN OF ROLFE -
TOWN OF FONDA - GILMORE CITY AND LAURENS
- OTHER TOWNS IN THE COUNTY - PHYSICAL AND
POLITICAL SKETCH OF PALO ALTO COUNTY - WEST BEND AND
EMMETSBURG BORN - ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY
- PAOLI, THE FIRST COUNTY SEAT - OLD AND NEW
EMMETSBURG - OTHER TOWNS IN PALO ALTO COUNTY...
CHAPTER XXXII
WOODBURY COUNTY AND SIOUX CITY
THE COUNTY'S PHYSICAL OUTLOOK -
SETTLERS AND OTHERWISE, 1839-54 - EVOLUTION OF WOODBURY
COUNTY - LOCATION OF COUNTY SEAT
- STRIVINGS AFTER A COURTHOUSE - MONUMENTAL
PILE OF TODAY - GROWTH OF SIOUX CITY
- RAILROAD CONNECTION AT LAST - THE FIRST
BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION - BRIDGES FINALLY
BUILT - THE CORN PALACE CITY -
PROGRESS OF THE MUNICIPALITY - SIOUX CITY OF THE
PRESENT - WHAT THE CITY HAS TO OFFER
- ORIGIN OF THE CITY'S GREATEST INDUSTRY -
PROTECTORS OF COMMERCE, TRADE AND THE INDUSTRIES - A
CITY OF HOMES AND HEALTHFUL PLEASURES - THE PARKS OF THE
CITY - THE OFFERINGS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
- THE UPLIFTING PUBLIC LIBRARY -
CORRECTIONVILLE AND OTHER TOWNS...
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Allen, Arthur F. Frontispiece
Pilot Rock, Cherokee County 42
Floyd Monument 65
Monument Marking Camp-Site of Lewis and Clark Expedition, Onawa 65
Dr. Isaac H. Harriott 119
The Gardner Massacre 119
Views of Sioux City in 1864 137
The Sanborn & Follett Sawmill, Mouth of Perry Creek 137
Store of W. F. Faulkner & Co., Pearl Street 137
Northwestern Hotel, Second Street 137
Residential district 137
Balanger’s Boarding House in Early Sixties 143
Looking Northwest from Jackson and Seventh Streets, Sioux City, in 1866 143
Buildings of 1866, Sioux City 143
Early Settlers of Sioux City 149
Dr. John K. Cook, 1854, Founder 149
T. J. Stone, Early Banker 149
George W. Chamberlain, 1854 149
Mrs. George W. Chamberlain, 1854 149
William L. Joy, 1857, Attorney 149
L. D. Parmer, Early Merchant 149
Dr. A. M. Hunt, Founder of Hunt School 153
C. K. Poor, Contractor and Builder 153
George Weare, 1855 153
J. P. Allison, 1856 153
W. F. Faulkner, Pioneer Merchant 153
J. E. Booge, 1858, Wholesale Grocer and Founder of First Packing House 153
Sioux City, Looking North on Pearl Street from Second Street, August 1866
- Ten Buildings by Name 157
Sioux City, Looking Southwest from Jackson and Seventh Streets, 1866
- Nine Building Identified 157
Looking Southwest from Jackson and Seventh Streets, 1868 - Eight
Buildings Identified 161
Third Street between Pearl and Douglas Streets, 1869 - Nine Business
Places Named 161
The Levee in the Early Days, Sioux City 255
Hagy House and Hedges Store on the Levee, Early Sixties 255
The Levee, Early Seventies 255
Prairie Schooner 263
Fort Defiance, Estherville 295
Memorial Monument to Soldiers of Civil War, Onawa 298
Tablet in Iowa Historical, Memorial and Art Building, Sioux City, (World
War Memorial) 319
Bird’s-eye View of Ida Grove Schools 351
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Old Time Log Schoolhouse 351
Grade School, Rock Rapids 357
High School, Rock Rapids 357
Northwestern Classical Academy, Orange City 363
Buena Vista College, Storm Lake 363
Central High School, Sioux City 371
High School, Pocahontas 371
High School, Jefferson 377
High School, Lake City 377
High School, Whiting 383
High School, Spencer 383
Manning High School 389
New High School, Sheldon 389
George D. Perkins 395
Smith, Rev. J. J. 551
Storm Lake 593
High School, Storm Lake 593
Main Street, Looking North, Manson 615
Residence Scene, Manson 615
Calhoun County Courthouse, Rockwell City 619
View of Twin Lakes near Rockwell City 619
View of Coon River, Lake City 623
View of Business Section and Carroll County Courthouse, Carroll 627
Fifth Street, Carroll 633
Adams Street, North Carroll 633
State Hospital, Cherokee 659
Pavilion in Tourist Park, Cherokee 659
Carnegie Library, Spencer 669
Clay County Courthouse, Spencer 669
North Main Street, Spencer (2 views) 677
Fair Grounds, Spencer 681
Crawford County Courthouse 687
Street Scene, Denison 687
Tourist Park, Denison 696
Indian Massacre Monument, Arnold’s Park 699
Lake Okoboji, Arnold’s Park 699
Soldiers Monument, Spirit Lake 711
Across the Lake from Templar Park, Spirit Lake 711
Post Office, Estherville 721
Sixth Street, North, Estherville 721
The Monument at Estherville 727
High School, Estherville 727
Eureka Ridge, Jefferson 737
Greene County Courthouse, Jefferson 737
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xxi
American Legion Hall, Sac City 745
Sac County Courthouse, Sac City 745
Chautauqua Park, Sac City 748
Ida Grove Schools 751
A Street Scene, Ida Grove 751
Lyon County Courthouse, Rock Rapids 769
River View, Rock Rapids 769
Osceola County Courthouse, Sibley 777
Public Library, Sibley 777
Public Library, Sheldon 789
Country Club, Sheldon 789
Sioux County Courthouse, Orange City 797
City Park, Orange City 797
I. C. R. R. Depot and Eating House, LeMars, Burned in 1878 811
Methodist Church, LeMars 811
Old Plymouth County Courthouse and Jail, LeMars 815
Plymouth County Courthouse, LeMars 815
Monona County Courthouse, Onawa 823
Public Library, Onawa 823
Pocahontas County Courthouse, Pocahontas 845
Main Street, Pocahontas 845
East Shore, Medium Lake, Emmetsburg 853
Public Library, Emmetsburg 859
Broadway North from Tenth Street, Emmetsburg 859
Pearl Street, looking North and East, 1869, Sioux City 865
Woodbury County Courthouse, Sioux City 871
Public Library, Sioux City 877
An Artist’s Sketch of the First Corn Palace, Sioux City 877
Fourth Street, looking East from Douglas Street, Sioux City 883
Pierce Street, looking North from Third Street, Sioux City 883
Scene in Grand View Park, Sioux City 889
Scene in Stone Park, Sioux City 889
Sioux City Federal Building 895 |
