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LAST INDIAN TROUBLES IN IOWA.
Pages 318 - 333.....Threatening Attitude of Indians in 1861 --Depredations in Northern Iowa--State Adopts Measures for Defense--Caleb Baldwin Authorized to Organize the Citizens--His Circular--G. M. Dodge, Acting Adjutant--Frontier Guards--Captain Tripp--Lieutenants Smith and Millard--Melbourne Mounted Rangers --Captain Morton--Mills County Mounted Minute-men--Captain Tubbs--Lieutenants Baldwin and Bosbyshell--Expedition of Minute-men to Sioux City--Hostile Raids of Indians--Movements of Frontier Guards--Skirmish--Murder of Roberts and Cordua --Unsuccessful Pursuit of Indians--Military Correspondence--Captain Mitchell Raises a Company of Cavalry at Des Moines--Lieutenants Miller and Bush--Sergeant Gregg--Operations of Mitchell's Cavalry on the Frontier--Indian Killed--Indian Outrages in Minnesota, in 1862 --Excitement on the Frontier--State and Local Measures for Defense--Erection of Stockades at Spirit Lake, Cherokee and Estherville--Captain Millard--Indian Hostilities in Dakota--Appeal of Governor Jayne--General Sibley--Capture and Execution of Leaders of the Minnesota Massacre--The Sioux City Cavalry.
Pages 334 - 361.....Julian Dubuque--Antoine Le Claire--Dr. Samuel C. Muir--Felix St. Vrain--Col. George Davenport--Gen. Joseph M. Street--Major John Beach--Jonathan Emerson Fletcher--Josiah Smart--John Gilbert--James Lyon Langworthy--Traders with the Sacs and Foxes--P. Choteau, Jr., & Co.--S. S. & Wiliam Phelps --W. G. & G. W. Ewing--J.P. Eddy--Wharton McPherson--James H. Jordan--John H. Mikesell--Employes of the Sac and Fox Agency --Richard Kerr--Charles H. Withington--Mr. Baker--Harvey Sturdevant--Jeremiah Smith--Peter Wood--John Goodell--Frank Labashure.
Pages 362 - 404.....A Trader's Indian Wife--Montrose Apple Trees--A Pledge of Honor--"Wild Cat Wilson"--Rescuing a Drowning Man--Three Women--A Heroine--An Indian Woman's Revenge--Origin of Indian Names--Competine's Gun--Chivalry--Respect for the Cloth--Black Hawk and Keokuk--A Dog Feast--A Highly Seasoned Kettle of Soup--Death of an Indian Child--Offerings for the Dead--Indians and Mormons --Indian Honor--Indian Friendship--Fort Robinson--A Trader's Fate--A False Alarm--Panic in Ringgold County--A Sabbath Sensation--Early Days of Sioux City--Bruigher and his Indian Wives--War Eagle--Indian Scare in Boone county--"Old Tom"--The Three Trappers--Che-wa-lis-ki Man-i-ton Se-po--Ka-la-we-quois--Toney and his Whisky--Murder of Rev. Oliver Atwood--Black Hawk and Gen. Scott--A "Big Drunk"--Indian Rites at the Grave of Col. Davenport--Indian Strategy--Indian Raids in Western Iowa.
Contents, page 15 (Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24)
Contents, page 16 ( Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 1 and 2)
Contents, page 17 (Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 3, 4, 5)
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