MAPS AND
ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER ONE -
EARLY DAYS AT
COUNCIL BLUFFS: Longitude and Latitude ; First Occupancy ;
Origin of Name ; Hart 's Cut-Off;
Hart's Bluff; Bloomer and Gue Histories; De Smet's Letter to Jones;
Hart's Trapping Station; Who was Hart ? Pottawattamie Indians Arrive ;
Old Blockhouse ; Billy Caldwell's Village ; Jesuit Mission ; Fort
Croghan; Camp Kearney; Mormons; Miller's Hollow ; Kanesville ; Colonel
Kane ; Mormon Church Reorganization; President Chosen; General G. M.
Dodge; United States Land Office; First "Gentile" Church Edifice; Named
Council Bluffs; City Incorporation ; Townsite Entry ; Survey of
Townsite ; Newspapers ; First Dram.atic Performance
CHAPTER TWO - POTTAWATTAMIE
INDIANS: United States Acquire Land in Iowa and Missouri ;
Indian Cessions in Illinois and Indiana; Removal of Pottawattamies ;
Erroneously Located; Platte
Purchase; Arrival in Iowa; Number Removed; Blockhouse Erected; Dr.
Edwin James ; Iowa Lands Described ; Father De Smet ; His Mission;
Early Writers Err; Old Indian (Wicks) Mill; Historical Works; Colonel
Kearney; SubAgency Locations; Camp Fenwick; Fort Croghan;
Pottawattamies Relinquish Iowa Lands; Indian and Mormon Co-Occupancy;
Departure of Pottawattamies
CHAPTER THREE - THE OLD
BLOCKHOUSE: Subject of Surmise; Writer's Memory Concerning ;
Bloomer 's Description ; Gue 's History; Field and Reed History; H. H.
Field's Personal Recollection ;
Spencer Smith 's Memory ; Ephraim Huntington's Remembrance; Henry De
Long's Description ; Appearance in
1846 ; Fort Croghan 's Relation; De Smet's Barometric Reading;
Nicollett and Fremont's Visit; Camp Kearney; War Department Memorandum;
Official Records; When Erected; Jesuit Mission Establislied ; Mission
Abandoned ; Comment on Memory
CHAPER FOUR - FORT CROGHAN:
When Established; By Whom Established ; Camp Fenwiek ; Name Changed ;
Log Cantonment;
Flooded by Missouri; Removal to Highlands; Scope of Name; Original
Site; Where Removed; Bloomer's Statements; Hardin's Testimony; Section
10; Casady's Farm; Council Point; Casady's Town House; Duck Hollow; De
Smet's Reply to Inquiry; Log of Steamer ' ' Omega" ; Audubon 's Visit ;
Audubon Returns ; Abandonment of Fort ; Writer's Deductions ; General
Comment
CHAPTER FIVE - THE MORMONS
: Arrive at Missouri River ; Civil Government ; Whither Were They Going
? Camps of Israel ; The Stakes of Zion; Enlistment of Battalion; Its
Rendezvous; Farewell
Ball; Change of Emigration Plans ; Semi-Permanent Encampment ; Winter
Quarters; Municipal Government Established; Miller's Hollow;
Kanesville; President of the Church Appointed; Abandonment of Winter
Quarters; Post-offices Established; Frontier Guardian; Peter A. Sarpy;
Dagger's Mill; The Bugle; Orson Hyde and His People Depart
CHAPTER SIX - POTTAWATTAMIE
COUNTY: Temporary Organization Authorized;
Organization Effected; Boundaries Changed and Area Reduced; Seat of
Justice to be Selected; Election for Seat of Justice and Officials;
Date and Result of Election
