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Title: An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Tuttle, Charles R. (Charles Richard), b. 1848 Durrie, Daniel S. (Daniel Steele), 1819-1892
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: Chicago : Richard S. Peale & Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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somehesitation, Mr. Marsh concluded to proceed with his work. Hehad not proceeded more than three-fourths of a mile, to a pointabout half a mile south of the town plat of Fort Dodge, on thebench of land at the head of a large ravine, when the Indians sur-rounded them in force, and robbed them of everything, takingtheir horses, breaking up their wagons and instruments andforced them back across the river to find their way home the bestway they could. In the fall and winter of the same year, theseIndians attacked Henry Lott, Jacob Mericle, L. Mericle, and oneor two others who had ventured up to the Boon forks, and rob-bed them, and were constantly committing depredations on set-tlers who ventured up north or northwest of Fort Des Moines,becoming more bold after the troops left Fort Des Moines. Thedepredations and outrages committed by the Indians being repre-sented to the government, it was determined to establish a militarypost at some point on the northern frontier, for the purpose of
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216 Tutiles History of Iowa. keeping these Indians in check and protecting the frontier settlersthat might come into this section of country. Early in 1849, Brevet-Gen. Mason, colonel of the sixth regi-ment of United States infantry, was directed to select a site for afort as near as practicable to the northwest corner of the neutralground established by treaty between the Sac, Fox and Pottawat-tamie and the Sioux Indians, a strip of country reaching fromthe Des Moines river to the Mississippi. The north line of thisground is marked about three miles above Fort Dodge, where thepost stands marking the northwest corner on the east bank of theDes Moines river. The site where Fort Dodge now stands wasselected on the east bank of the river, a short distance below themouth of the Lizard river, which empties into the Des Moines onthe west side. At the same time great excitement prevailedamong the citizens of Iowa, Tama and Benton counties, owing toa large body of Sac and Fox Indians, seven o

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