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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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bridges peoplecrossed as they could. At the first election the boys from thenorth side of the straits swam over and those who couldntswim, paddled themselves across on poles or chunks of wood.)\(ost of the teaming at that time was done by ox teams andmany of them soon learned as soon as they reached the waterto strike for the other side without anv hesitation. iWlierethe couplings of the wagon were properly secureil and the boxlashed to the running gear, if the box was reasonably .tight andthe driver level headed, a team that understood theiji- businesswould cross and make a landing on the opposite side withoutdanger of accident. The distance they had to swim was about *Pronounced O-chee-dan ; Nicollet has this to say: Otcheyedan —a namederived from a small hill, the literal meaning of which is the spot where they cry;alluding to the custom of the Indians to repair to elevated situations to weep overtheir dead relatives.—Nicollet, Report of the Upper Mississippi River, etc., p. 2.
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H Pio -A o s oo 1-1 Q o pqo o K H a 35 HCO DES MOINES BEACH 537 thirty feet. The strait was something over two hundred feetwide, but was fordable except the thirty feet in the center. The first bridge was .a footbridge, made of small logs flat-tened on one side and laid on trestles. After this was one withtrestles strong enough to bear a team. On these were laidstringers and these stringers covered with ten foot plank. Inthe fall of 1860 came the county bridge. In 1873 M. J. Smitherected a dwelling house afterwards pretty well known asSniitir.s C(;ttage. At this time nobody comprehended what the summer resortbusiness was to be in the near futurei, and everyone plannedhis building to suit his own taste or convenience, regardlessof what the public might demand hereafter, and Smiths Cot-tage was planned and built without any thought of its beingopened as a summer resort, but the convenience of the location,together with its natural attractions, early made it a favoritestopping place for

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