A History of Dickinson County, Iowa: Together with an Account of the Spirit Lake Massacre, and the Indian Troubles on the Northwestern Frontier ...Kenyon printing & mfg. Company, 1902 - 598 pages A scarce Iowa county history, important for its quite detailed account of Indian wars along the northwestern border of Iowa in the 1850s. A model of local history, with much relating to the Indian tribes of the region, white pioneers, an account of the Spirit Lake Massacre, Sully's expedition against the Indians, as well as on the eventual stability and development of Dickinson County. Includes an account of the captivity of Abigail Gardner. |
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... Towns - The Fuel Question - Burning Hay- Burning Corn - The Sod Shanty CHAPTER XXVI The Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad - The Building of the Milford Mills - Several Controversies - The Level of the ... Town of Spirit Lake - Selection of.
... Towns - The Fuel Question - Burning Hay- Burning Corn - The Sod Shanty CHAPTER XXVI The Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad - The Building of the Milford Mills - Several Controversies - The Level of the ... Town of Spirit Lake - Selection of.
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... Town Site Was Obtained - The Enter- prise Abandoned by the Original Promoters and the Land Proved Up as a Private Claim - Life in the Town During the War CHAPTER XXXV ... Spirit Lake Town Continued - The Early Merchants - The Early ...
... Town Site Was Obtained - The Enter- prise Abandoned by the Original Promoters and the Land Proved Up as a Private Claim - Life in the Town During the War CHAPTER XXXV ... Spirit Lake Town Continued - The Early Merchants - The Early ...
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... town- ship , there are two small lakes even nearer the principal lake than in the case we have just considered and similarly walled off from the greater body of water by a pile of drift . Similar situations on a small scale may be ...
... town- ship , there are two small lakes even nearer the principal lake than in the case we have just considered and similarly walled off from the greater body of water by a pile of drift . Similar situations on a small scale may be ...
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... town of Jackson now stands . They called their settlement Springfield . It was about fourteen miles from Marble's , and about twenty miles from the balance of the lake settlements . In Emmet County George Granger had built a good sized ...
... town of Jackson now stands . They called their settlement Springfield . It was about fourteen miles from Marble's , and about twenty miles from the balance of the lake settlements . In Emmet County George Granger had built a good sized ...
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... town , thus leaving the country through which the expedi- tion must necessarily pass practically uninhabited , and those who remained were so destitute that they could furnish noth- ing for the expedition . The meeting at Fort Dodge was ...
... town , thus leaving the country through which the expedi- tion must necessarily pass practically uninhabited , and those who remained were so destitute that they could furnish noth- ing for the expedition . The meeting at Fort Dodge was ...
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afterwards arrival Barkman Beacon boat boys buffalo building built cabin camp Captain Church claim Clay County command commenced courthouse Dickinson County Dodge early east election Emmet County erected Estherville expedition feet fish Flandrau force Fort Dodge frontier Gardner Governor grasshopper Grove hundred Indians interest John Judge Fulton killed Kingman known land Lieutenant Little Sioux Little Sioux River located lodge Major Williams massacre ment miles Milford mill Minnesota Missouri Missouri River Moines River morning moved night northwestern Iowa officers organized Osceola County party Pillsbury pioneer prairie preemption law Prescott R. A. Smith railroad reached Ridgley savages schoolhouse settlement settlers shore side Sioux City snow soon Spirit Lake spring started succeeded summer Thatcher tion took town township tribes trip troops wagon West Okoboji West Okoboji Lake Wheelock winter
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Page 575 - I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh...
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Page 122 - The country between the Minnesota River at Ridgley and Spirit Lake was, at that day, an utter wilderness, without an inhabitant. In fact, none of us knew where Spirit Lake was, except that it lay about due south of the fort at a distance of from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five miles.
Page 565 - Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: " 'Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes hereinafter provided.
Page 585 - For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse the rider was lost; for want of a rider, the battle was lost ; for the want of a battle, the Kingdom was lost; and all for the want of a horseshoe nail !" The same sort of story might be written about physical defects.
Page 133 - Inkpadutah the instant we could get word as to the safety of the white women. The colonel entered into the spirit of the matter with zeal. He had four or five companies at the fort and proposed to put them into the field, so as to approach Skunk Lake, where Inkpadutah had his camp, from several different directions and insure his destruction.
Page 102 - Richmond. These campaigns were made under southern suns and in the cold rains and not infrequent snow storms of southern winters. They were sometimes continued without intermission three or four days and nights in succession with only an occasional halt to give weary, footsore soldiers a chance to boil a cup of coffee. But I never in those weary years experienced a conflict with the elements that could be compared with the two nights and one day on the bank of Cylinder Creek.
Page 130 - I was engaged in devising plans for the rescue of the captives and the punishment of the Indians in connection with Colonel Alexander of the Tenth Infantry, but had found it very difficult to settle upon any course which would not endanger the safety of the prisoners. We knew that any hostile demonstration would be sure to result in the destruction of the women, and were without means to fit out an expedition for their ransom.
Page 266 - State, of not less than five hundred mounted men, and such other force as he may deem necessary, to be mustered into service by a person to be appointed by the Governor, at such place as he may designate, to be stationed at various points in the North-Western counties of said State, in such numbers in a body as he may deem best for the protection of that portion of the State from hostile Indians, at the earliest possible moment.
Page 45 - Their cabins stood upon what is now the right of way of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, about half way between the lake shore and the depot.