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Title: A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit Lake massacre, and the Indian troubles on the northwestern frontier ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Roderick A., 1831-1918
Subjects: Massacres -- Iowa Spirit Lake Dickinson County (Iowa) -- History
Publisher: Des Moines, The Kenyon printing & mfg. co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e county judge ofWoodbury County. He issued an order for holding theelection, which was held accordingly. The first ofiicers 170 DICKINSON COUNTY - IOWA elected were as follows: (). (. Howe, Coiiiity Judge;B. F. Jarineiiter, Proseciitiiiii Attorney; M. A. Blan-chard. Treasurer and Ret-nrder; K, A. Suiirli, (Ifrk of tli;-Distrier Courr; (. F. Hill, Sheriff; Alfred AVilkius, (..uut\Surveyor; W. B. Browu, Coruiicr. R. IJ. Wlieelock and li.A. Smith wvYc elected Justices of the Peace. After the elec-tion it was necessary that the returns he sent to Sioux City,and that either the county Iudiie, district attorney or clerkof the district court elect go before the judge of Woo(ll)nrvConnty .and give honds for his aj^proval and lie swum in in dnef(u-ni. This journey fell to tlie lot of the clerk of the districtcourt. These trips to Sioux City were no holiday affairs. Theronte by which they were made was to strike out in a westerlydirection to the head (d tlic Fhivd and foll<iw-that stream to
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NATURAL TERRACE ON WEST OKOBOJI. hills visit to SIOUX CITY 171 Sioux City. There were no settlements on the route untilwithin eight miles of the city. The time required for mak-ing the trip was seven days; the distance one hundred andtwentv miles each wav, or two hundred and f(ntv mihs in all.Let a person imagine himself taking a trip that distance aloneon horseback, drinking from the streams he might chance tocross, eating a dry lunch from his portnuniteau, at night roll-ing up in a saddle l)lanket with the saddle under his head asa pillow, his horse ))icket(d l)y his side, and with no prol)a-bilitv of seeinp- a human being for the next three davs, andhe can form some idea of what those trips were. Add to thisthe ever-present danger that roving bands of Indianswere continually hovering along the border ready at any mo-ment to waylay any luckless adventurer who may have venturedbevond the line of the settlements, and it will l)e understoodthat no slight amount of courage and hardihood

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