Frank Nicholas, 1st Native Son
1
Indian massacre of 1864
2
Laura Roper rescued
3
William Plucknett's cattle
4
Wild turkeys along the Blue
5
George Hunt and John Barratt in Indian Raid
6
The Van
Cleve's arrived in 1859
7
Families
harassed
by Indians
8
Wild Bill Hickock on the scene
9
Wild Bill, rough and ready
10
Wild Bill and Mr. Wickam
11
Mr. Snell and Mr. Nicholas bought 1st corn planter
12
Prairie fire
13
Fearful blizzard of 1874
13
Oxen and early cattle industry
14
C.
B.
Q. stockyards at DeWitt
15
1st threshing machine
15
1st self binder
16
Prof. and Mrs. Blake conduct DeWitt school
16
1st Dropper owned by George Grant Sr.
17
First white person buried in DeWitt Oak Grove Cemetery
17
Mr. Grant made black walnut coffins
17
Emigrants arrived from Benton County, Iowa
18
Alfred Snell and his trials to earn a bride
18
Worst Hail Storm
20
Grasshopper visitation, July, 1874
21
Cattle stampede
22
Robert Plucknett Sr. experience in the stampede
23
Wild game of the period
24
Barrel
of wood ashes used for home made soap
25
Other wild game
27
Many birds
28
Catfish, Buffalo, Pike fish
29
Fish in the Big Draw
30
Earthquake 1860's
31
Sheep from Wisconsin
31
Thomas Wheeler walked to Brownsville
32
First bridges
32
Mrs. Emily Hood and family arrive
32
Prairie dog towns
33
Clay County divided between Lancaster and Gage
33
Gage County School District 13
34
Henry Richardson introduces bees
36
Joseph Suiter arrives at Dan
Freeman's
36
George Grant-1st sorghum mill
37
1st brickyard, H. Hollingworth
38
Suiter Brothers built first mill
38
1849 auction sale bill
39
Government surveyors in this area 1855 |
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40
1st grist mill at Swan City
40
Saline County organized, 18 Feb 1867
40
Highlights of Swan City
41
Officials of Saline County
41
Swan City when a Real Town
42
Early mail service
42
Organization of Saline County schools
43
1870 District 6 school census
44
Ira Waldo one of earliest blacksmiths
45
Ed Cartwright's breaking plow
45
Pleasant Hill became Saline County Seat
45
Dennison or DeWitt est. 1872 with RR
45
John Dunbar had driving team of elk
46
1874 County jail burned killing 4 persons
46
Henry Burden,
Negro
homesteader
47
Revolting murder
47
Wes Cox on Swan City schools
48
1871 prairie fire
49
Prairie fire kills school children
50
Jim Whitewater, Otoe Indian
50
Fred Elliott, more on children killed in fire
52
Wm Remington house, later Norton, Wm
Wohenburg
53
Abe Cox hunts elk
53
1870 Dist. 6 school census
54
DeWitt Dist. 6 school teachers
55-58
School graded in 1886
58
11th grade added 1896
58
12th grade added 1914
58
John Dunbar and his circus
59 Henry Biggs and the blizzard
59
Wes Cox letter-buffalo hunt
60
Wm Burgess 81st birthday
61
Blue River Valley productive
62
History of RR through Gage and Saline
63
1884 branch line from DeWitt to Tobias
63
Train meets train
64
Naming of RR towns
65
Kansas City Wyandotte and Northwestern RR
65
Rock Island RR
66
Austin Boyer hack line
67
Yankee Robinson Circus
67
Daring train stories
68
Story of Artist family
69
John Gilbert and Frank P. Baker
69
Frank P. Baker stage coach tales
70
Joseph Suiter
70
Henry Biggs, Robert Nicholas' cousin
71
Story of Wm Pierce and family
71
Drowning of Wm Pierce
72
Jewell,
Rathbun,
Griffith,
Green,
Pike families |
