History of Emmet County and Dickinson County, Iowa
Table of Contents
VOLUME I
CHAPTER I.
PHYSICAL FEATURES, GEOLOGY, ETC 1
CHAPTER II.
THE FIRST INHABITANTS 15
CHAPTER III.
THE PERIOD OF PREPARATION 35
CHAPTER IV.
MILITARY HISTORY 61
CHAPTER V.
SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION 80
CHAPTER VI.
PIONEERS AND THEIR WORK 95
CHAPTER VII.
TOWNSHIP HISTORY 108
CHAPTER VIII.
CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES 123
CHAPTER IX.
FINANCE AND INDUSTRY 141
CHAPTER X.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 160
CHAPTER XI.
EDUCATION IN EMMET COUNTY
THE PRESS AND THE LIBRARY 176
CHAPTER XII.
LAW AND MEDICINE 184
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CHURCHES OF EMMET COUNTY 194
CHAPTER XIV.
SOCIETIES AND FRATERNITIES 203
CHAPTER XV.
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS 217
CHAPTER XVI.
MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY 222
CHAPTER XVII.
STATISTICAL REVIEW 234
CHAPTER XVIII.
EARLY SETTLEMENT OF DICKINSON COUNTY 247
CHAPTER XIX.
ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT OF DICKINSON COUNTY 270
CHAPTER XX.
DICKINSON COUNTY TOWNSHIPS 282
CHAPTER XXI.
THE SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE
THE MASSACRE AND THE EVENTS WHICH LED UP TO IT 289
CHAPTER XXII.
THE SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE (Continued)
AFTERMATH OF THE MASSACRE AND THE EXPEDITION 304
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE (Continued)
DEPREDATIONS IN MINNESOTA AND THE FATE OF THE CAPTIVES DISAPPEARANCE OF THE INDIANS 321
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE CITY OF SPIRIT LAKE 340
CHAPTER XXV.
LAKE PARK, MILFORD, SUPERIOR, TERRILL AND OTHER TOWNS 349
CHAPTER XXVI.
TRANSPORTATION 356
CHAPTER XXVII.
EDUCATION IN DICKINSON COUNTY
THE PRESS 361
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHURCHES OF DICKINSON COUNTY 372
CHAPTER XXIX.
DICKINSON COUNTY SOCIETIES 379
CHAPTER XXX.
MEDICINE, LAW AND COURTS 385
CHAPTER XXXI.
DICKINSON COUNTY RESORTS 388
CHAPTER XXXII.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 395
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY 419
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Emmet and Dickinson Counties are situated in the northern tier of Iowa counties. They are about midway between the forty-third and forty-fourth parallels of north latitude, and the ninety-fifth meridian of longitude west of Greenwich passes through the latter county, about five miles west of the line dividing it from Emmet. Between Dickinson County and the western boundary of the state lie the counties of Osceola and Lyon.
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