Book/Printed Material A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit Lake massacre, and the Indian troubles on the northwestern frontier ...
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Image 1 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 7 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... A HISTORY OF Dickinson County, Iowa TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF The Spirit Lake Massacre, and the Indian Troubles on the Northwestern Frontier. ILLUSTRATED ByR. A.SMITH Des Moines: The Kenyon Printing Mfg....
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 8 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... THE LIBRARY or CONGRESS, Two CopUi Racalvad JUL t6 f909 Capyright Kfltty ^k t- r 3 LASS- i?u XXo. N«. (p 5 5 COPY A. Cb Entered according to Act of Congress...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 9 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... INTRODUCTION. There has for some time existed a feeling that a comiected account of the Indian trouble on the northwestern border of Iowa should be given to the public, or i-ather that...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 10 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... CHAPTER XII Effect of the Massacre Elsewhere— Attractiou of Emigrants— The Howe and Wheelock Party— J. S. Prescott and His Party— Geo. E. Spencer and the Newton I arty CHAPTER XIII 1^2...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 11 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... CHAPTER XXII 276 Expeditions Against tlie Indians— Sully s Expedition— His Force Leaves Sioux t lty and Follow Up tlie Missouri— Expect to Form a Junction With Sibley s Forces at Api...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 12 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... The Dickinson County Herald— Civic Societies CHAPTER XXXVII A. IV^v, .^u.^-iV Tlie Eailv Churclies— M. E. Pastors— Baptists— First Churcli BuUd- ins in the Countv-Rov. J. L. Coppoc-Subsequent Pastors-Con- jrregationalists-Lutherans-Tlic Catholics-Tlie Evergreen...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 13 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... IIAPIKK 1. DICKINSON cor XTY— LOCATION AM) I llYSlCAL FEATURKS TIIK T-AKKS INDIANS OF IOWA RKl IJKSK.NT TWO DISTINCT HACKS ALCiONQUIXS AND DACOTAIIS ALGONQUIN TRIBES, SA(^S AM) KOXES^ POTTAWATTAMIES^ ILLINOIS AM MUSCATINES...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 14 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... IQ DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA The lakes of our region lie almost all in Dickinson County. Not that Osceola is destitute of similar topographic features, but for some reason the peculiar conditions that...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 15 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... THE LAKES PROF. MC BRIDE 11 at least, have ever been inucli dt cpcr tluiii at present. TIr outlet valley is largely constructional and while there has In-en erosion, considerable in the...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 16 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 12 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA VIEW OX SPIRIT LAKE. lliaii four miles, in Iowa. The extreme width is aljout the same, but owing to irregularity of contour the area is not more than...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 17 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... SPIRIT LAKE 13 estimate and explanation of the reniai kahle phenomenon. It seems probable, however, that Snnken Lake is as old as any of the others, and whiU a most remarkable bit...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 18 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 14 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA PW ^iL 1^1 ^i^lBHi^^^ T^^^MB^HiSSSflBK^ i WEST OKOBOJI. represent an ice bowlder this seems more probable since its walls are steejD, unbroken on every side. South of Spirit...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 19 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... LAKE OKOBO.Il 15 There seems no reason to cloul)t that there are many places where the depth is at least one hundred feet, but soundings of two or three times that depth...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 20 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 16 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA MIXKE WASHTA. (lis])lay uf bowlders, notable not so much perhaps for their position as for their variety and beantv. Here are bowlders of limestone, bowlders of o ranite...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 21 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... INDIANS OF IOWA 17 Great Lakes, and eventually to \hv Mk^iAs i])]n jind even bevond. Tliev were divided into a lariic number of trihcs hav- ing their separate interests, but speaking a...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 22 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 18 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA Fulton gives a list of one hundred and fifty-^even names of members of this tribe copied from the daybook of one of the old traders. In 1845 and...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 23 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... THE ALGONQUIN TRIBKS 19 in Iowa without encountering a single native. After lanfling he followed the trail inland to an Indian village, and found to his great delight that the savages there...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 24 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 20 DICKINSOX COUNTY IOWA tlie least provocation and on the flimsiest pretext tliev rushed into tlie most deadly and destructive warfare with each other. They fought for the love of fighting. Entire...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 25 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... THE DACOTAII TKIBKS 2\ sovereignty of the l)es ^loiiies Valley from tlic Towns t tlu Sacs and Foxes. The decisive hattle in which the Towas were so signally defeated hy the Sacs...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 26 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 22 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA pied the western i)art of Wisconsin, the northern part of Iowa, the great ir part of ^linnesota, the whole of Xorth and Sonth Dakota, and much of the...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 27 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... THE SIOUX 23 The tribes they found inhal)itiii_i the country now embraced in northern Iowa and the state of ]\finnesota wore those belonging to the great Dacotah grou]) or nation. AVIiih* en-...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 28 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 24 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA ])revioiis to its purchase and settlement by the whites. Author- ities seem to agree, however, that a band of Yankton-Sioux, known as tlie Wahpekutahs, occupied the country of...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 29 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... THE NEUTRAL GROUND 25 kept up to a greater or less extent until 1845, when the Sacs and Foxes were removed from the state. The last hostile meeting between the Sioux an...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 30 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 26 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA Sioux, two tliousaud dollars; to the Yankton and Santee bands of Sioux, three thousand dollars; to the Omahas, two thousand five hundred dollars and to the Otoe and...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 31 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... CHAPTER II. TKKATY OF 1851 .MINNESOTA RK8KKVATIOX UPPER AND I.0WP:R AGENCIES THE WAIIPEKUTAII SIOUX WAMDISAPPl AND TlIK OITLAW BAND LEAVE THE MAIN TRIBE AT WAM DISAPPl s DEATH SIDOMINADOTAK BECOMES CHIEF HAS...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 32 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 28 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA about three miles from its mouth. Two bands received their annuities at the Lower and two at the Upper Agency. The Wahpekutahs, the band with which the history...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 33 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... LOTT AND SIDOMINADOTAH 29 approached would unite themselves with the Agency Indians for the purpose of sharing in the annuities. .Vmong the followers of Wamdisappi was a chief known as Sidominadotah, or...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 34 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 30 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA step-son from homo, carrvini! things with a high hand generally. After Lott and his step-son had left the honse, a younger boy, Milton Lott, a lad of about...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 35 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... MILITARY rOSTS 31 and liis stop-son loaded what tli(\v could of their ]iortal)les into a wagon and the balance they piled up in their cabin and set it on fire, then hitching-...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 36 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 32 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA of him. He says Sidominadotab was a man about five feet ten in height, stout and well formed, very active, had a pierc- ing black eye, broad face...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 37 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... SCRAPS OF EARLY HISTORY 33 Des Moines region. ]\[ajor Williams was associated intimately with all the stirring events along the entire frontier. During the ;years of occupancy of the fort, INIajor Williams...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 38 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 34 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA It was after the abandonment of the fort that the outrages most intimately associated with our early history v» ere perpetrated. Of those, by far the most important...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 39 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... UNFRIENDLY RELATIONS 35 1)1111(1 back to the main trihe. At anv rate tlic numerical strength of the band became rapidly depleted. AVhat had been a tribe of respectable strength was soon reduced...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
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Image 40 of A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit ... 36 DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA and the settlers, aiul the cause thereof. This may be true, but it is the experience of the writer that many of the tourists who visit the lakes...
- Contributor: Smith, Roderick A.
- Date: 1902
About this Item
Title
- A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit Lake massacre, and the Indian troubles on the northwestern frontier ...
Names
- Smith, Roderick A., 1831-1918.
Created / Published
- Des Moines, The Kenyon printing & mfg. co., 1902.
Headings
- - Dickinson County (Iowa)--History
- - Spirit Lake Massacre, Iowa, 1857
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 598 p. front. (port.) illus. (incl. ports.) 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F627.D5 S6
Library of Congress Control Number
- 03021008
OCLC Number
- 3487893
Online Format
- image
- online text