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There has for some time existed a feeling that a connected
account of the Indian trouble on the northwestern border of
Iowa should be given to the public, or rather that what facts are
preserved should be so grouped that a person reading them could
form a reasonably intelligent idea of them. Any person following this line of investigation will soon come face to face
with the fact that the sources of information are extremely
limited. The writer has endeavored to give as correct and concise an idea of the points treated as was possible under the circumstances, and it seems appropriate to combine them with
the early history of Dickinson County, inasmuch as that was
the storm center around which, so far as Iowa is concerned,
these events seemed to culminate.
' In doing this work he has quoted freely from such sources
as were accessible and known to be reliable, and notably so
from the writings of Hon. C. E. Flandrau, Hon. Harvey Ingham, Hon. A. R. Fulton and Mrs. Abbie Gardner Sharp, giving at all times the proper credit. The writer was a member of
the Relief Expedition in 1857, and assisted in ...
A History of Dickinson County, Iowa, Together With an Account of the Spirit Lake Massacre, and the Indian Troubles on the Northwestern Frontier ..
