Pipestone County, Minnesota - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 1 of those read), 1911

Kenneth, Steen, Ashcreek, Bruce, Kanaranzi, Etc

Kenneth - Tlie Youngest Town - Railroad Reaches Site - Founding - Naming - Survey - Early Business Houses - Failure to Incorporate - School and Church History - Steen - As Virginia - Town Established - Pioneer Business Men - Postoffice - Fire - Churches - Ashcreek - Old Postoffice - Selecting the Name - Railroad Station - Colonel Grey's Operations - Town Appears - Later History - Bruce - Prospects at Pounding - Surrender to Hills - Kjergaard Holds the Fort - Present Standing - Kanaranzi - Station Established - Town Founded - Us History - Manley - A "HasBeen" Town - The Boom - The Bursti n g - I'resent Stat u s - Warner - Mound - Denver - Handy^Martin - Clinton - Kongsberg - Meadow - Pleasant Valley 203

Descriptive

Richest County in United States - Location - Boundaries - Area - Surface - Effects of Glacial Action - Geological E.\amination - Soil Composition - Products - Elevation.s - Drainage - Rock River - Its Tributaries - Timber - Beaver Creek - Split Rock - Kanaranzi - Rock Outcrops - The Mounds - A Conspicuous Landmark - Building Stone - Transportation Facilities - Telephone Lines - Mail Routes 217

The Newspapers Reminiscent

Prairie Fires - Terrors of the Prairie - Methods of Fighting - Game in Early Days - First County Fair - The Awards - Squatting on Railroad Lands - Borrowed the County's Cash - The James Boys' Visit - Ten Dollar Land - When Rock County Soil was Cheap - Didn't Buy the Calves - An Experience in Borrowing Money - Hawking Coimty Orders - Sympathized With the County - Tramp Visits the Old Court House - A Prophecy - Early Mention of Building Stone - Signs of the Times - Illustrations of Early I^ay Conditions 231

In The Reign Of Gitche Manitou

Place of Antiquity - The Indians' Garden of Eden - Where the Red Race was Born - Geological Age - Pipestone Quarried by Mound Builders - Hieroglyphics - The Pictograph Collection - White Explorers Hear of the Quarries - Indications ol" Indian Villages - Struggles for Possession - Battle Fields of Pipestone County - Neutral Ground - George Catlin's Statement - The Sioux Take Possession - Legends - Creation of the Red Race - The Peace Pipe - The Flood - The "Three Maidens" - Interview with St rikethe-Ree - Early Explorers in Minnesota - The ('oteau des Pralines - Long - Keating - Featherstonehaugh - Catlin Plans a Visit - Possibility of Earlier White Visitation 243

First White Man Readies Pipestone County - George Catlin's Expedition - Arrested by tlie Sioux - Incidents of the Journey - The Country in 1837 - On Classic Ground - Catlin's Narrative - Nicollet's Expedition - His Route - Description - Opens a New Quarry with Gunpowder - First Initials (Carved on the Rocks - General Fremont's Letter - Places Visited - Captain Allen's Explorations - Game P^ound - Rev. Ravoux Passes Through - Judge Swan's Visit - Women Captives at the Quarries - Pipestone County Created - Original Boundaries - The Yankton Treaty - Quarries Given to that Tribe - Reservation Surveyed - Strike-the-Ree - County Re-Created - Surveyed - Sioux War - Visit of Dr. Hayden - Dr. White - The Gore Party - -Chased by Indians-!- Legislative Enactments - Surveying Section Lines - Quarries Homesteaded - Patents Annulled 251

Settlers Pass By Pipestone County - Nearby Settlements - Fear of the Sioux - Trappers' Operations - C. H. Bennett Visits the Quarries - Selects Townsite - The Rock Rapids Promoters - Visit Pipestone County - First Claims Filed - First Building Erected - D. E. Sweet and John Lowry First Settlers - Sweet's Cabin - Dr. Taylor Arrives - First Breaking - Postoftice Established - A Lonesome Winter - Events of 1875 - New Arrivals - First Crop Sown - One Family Remains During Winter - Abortive Attempt to Organize County - Arrivals of 1876 - First Public Meeting - Townsite Surveyed - First Religious Services - Grasshoppers - New Comers Desert - Plan to Obliterate County - Permanent Homes Established - First Election - First Births - Boom in 1878

Steps to Organize County - Public Meeting - Electors Vote Favorably - Legislature Acts - The Bill - Organization - Selecting County Seat - Townships Organize - Sweet - Embraces Whole County - First Officers - Homesteaders - Osborne - Early History - Naming - Burke - Organized as Erip - First Town Meeting - Grange - Formerly Blaine - Fountain Prairie - First Named Upton - Rock - Early Settlers - Gray - First Officers - Elmer - Selecting the Name - Eden - Why So Named - First Officers - Troy - Named After a Cook Stove - Pioneers - Altona - The Homesteaders - Aetna - Last Precinct Organized 271

Change Wrought in Five Years - Progress in 1879 - Last of the Grasshoppers- First School Districts - Building the Southern Minnesota Railroad - Its History - The Minnesota & Black Hills Road - Census of 1880 - Old Settlers Society - The October Blizzard - Historic Winter - Blockades - Out of Fuel and Provisions - Burning Lumber - Great Depth of Snow - Crop Failure- District Court Organized - Statistics for 1882 - Hail Storm - Cyclone - Close Bros. & Co.'s Operations - Era of Development - Events of 1883 - First County Fair - More Railroads - Omaha Branch Extends - The Burlington Builds - Bonds Voted - The First Train - Bonds for "Duluth" Road - Its Failure - Lands Sold in 1884 - Prosperity -279

Passing of Pioneer Days - Census of 188.5 - Real Estate Sales - Rapid Settlement - The 1888 Blizzard - Adventures in the Storm - Willmar & Sioux Falls Railroad - Bonds Voted - Celebration - Road Built - Towns Founded - Era of Prosxii TABLE OF CONTENTS.

perlty - Census Returns - By Precincts - Last Railroad Built - The Panic- Cyclone - Mrs. Hicks Killed - The Damage - Crop Failures - Seed Grain Loans - Jail Building - Spanisli-Anierican War - The Pipestone County Company - Roster - The Losses - Return of Prosperous Times - Population in 1900 - Make- Shift Court Houses - Abortive Attempt to Build in 1894 - Success in 1901 - Vote on Bonds - Hail Storm of 1903 - Crop Damages - Late Census Figures 291

Chaptee Xxiii

First Political Convention - Only Three Men in the County Participate - Second Convention - Pipestone Delegate in State Convention - First Election - Poll List - Voters - Local Officers Chosen - Organization - First County Officers - Election of 1879 - Contests in 1880 - Democrats Organize in 1884 - Results in 1886 and 1888 - Farmers Alliance Enters Politics - .\nd Makes Clean Sweep - The Peoples Party - Dominates Politics - Bryan Carries County in 1896 - Republicans Win in 1898- Big Vote in 1900 - The Primary Law - Later Elections - Voting Strength of Precincts - Election of 1910 303

Ancient Pipestone - A Place of Antiquity - Location - Railroad Center - Selecting Site for Modern City - The Promoters - First Building - First Residents - Postoffice History - John Lowry Establishes Store - Townsite Platted - Additions - Slow Growth - Pioneer Hotel - Enterprises in 1878 - In 1879 - Railroad Comes - Early Business Directory - Census of 1880 - A Town of Sixty-four Buildings - Incorporation - The License Question - Village Officers - Boom of 1883 - Close Bros. & Co.'s Operations - Buildings Erected - Marvelous Growth in 1884 - Improvements Itemized - Directory of 1885 - Calumet Hotel Burns - *Electric Lights - Progress in 1892 - City Hall - A Prosperous Era - Under City Government - Officers - Census Figures - Later History 319

Pipestone'S Institutions Jasper And Edgerton

Jasper - Location - The Quarries - First Rumor of Town - Jasper Improvement Company - Its Operations - Townsite Platted - West Jasper - Founding the Town - First Business Houses - Postoft'ice - First Birth - Coming of Railroad - Improvements in 1888 - E^arly Business Directory - Petitions for Incorporation - Beginning Municipal Life - License Question - Officers - Improvements in 1889 - Second Railroad - Census Figures - Fires - School - Churches - Lodges - Fire Department - Banks - Edgerton - First Settler on Site - Founding - First Buildings - Platted - Osborne Postoft'ice - Change to Edgerton - Railroad Comes - Lively Times - Pioneer Business Men - Incorporation - License Question - Village Officers - Current Events - Disastrous Fire - Water Works - - School - Church History - Lodges - Fire Department - Bank 347

Holland And Ruthton

Holland - Founded by Moore & Sherman - Selecting the Site - The Name - Surveyed - First Lot Sold - First Building - Pioneer Business Men - Postoffice History - Slow Growth - Later Development - In 1898 - Incorporation - Village Officers - Census Statistics - The School - Churches - German Lutheran - Presbyterian - German Baptist - Lodges - Fire Department - The Bank - Ruthton - Location - The Founding - Name - Surveyed - Early Business Houses - Postoffice Established - The Boom - Early Day Business Directory - Incorporated - License Question - Roster of Officers - Fire - Population - Public Improvements - The School - Churches - Danish Lutheran - Norwegian Lutheran - - Methodist - Lodge History - Fire Department - Bank History 365