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The long awaited reprinting of the book ‘The Story of Sioux County’ by Charles Dyke in 1942 is about to become a reality!

This book will be a great acquisition for your early Sioux County Iowa heritage.  It is a descriptive picture of early mid-west development and is very informative and colorful reading even if you don’t have any direct Sioux County family ties.

Well over 700 pages bring to life this unique history from 1860’s to 1942, relating the beginning of Sioux County as told by Charles Dyke from interviews with early settlers and from early recorded county history.  The human interest stories are delightful and give insight to just what life was like on the prairie and early villages.

In the back of the book there is a 70 page old settlers photo album, and well as contents pages and an every name index.  Following are a few excerpts from the book.

 p. 35  The dugout consisted of an excavation about five feet deep.  It had a peaked roof of poles or lumber which was covered with strips of sod laid on like shingles, on a bed of saw grass. …

p. 49  At one time D. Van Den Bos, when about to cross the West Branch with his yoke of oxen, saw a stampede herd of elk coming for the ford….

p. 51  As many of the Dutch pioneers could talk only Dutch and the storekeepers in LeMars could speak only English, it was sometimes difficult to make their wants known, ..When Uncle Gerrit Vande Brake wanted a dozen eggs and had exhausted his vocabulary and ordinary sign language in vain to procure them, he squatted down like a chicken,…then standing up began to cackle.  He got his eggs with uproarious laughter and applause of everyone in the store.

p. 62  The Floyd river was then a gem of purest water on the immaculate bosom of mother earth.  It was ten feet deep, or even deeper in places and the water was so clear that when we dropped a white bean in it we could see it settle on the sand and gravel bottom.  It abounded with game fish like pike and pickerel, sun fish and bullheads, and the most delicious of all, the brook trout.  The beavers dammed it at certain distances…

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