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Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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From an old daguerreotype taken in 1855 at CouncilBluffs, Iowa, and given to the Nebraska State His-torical Society by J. Sterling Morton. Petkr A. Sarpy City was afterwards located, and on the LoupFork near the present site of Columbus. Hewas a man of peculiar temperament, kind atheart, but in the pursuit of his business enter-prises he spared no one. He was small and wiryin build, possessing great physical endurance.He loved the freedom of the West and was in-timately associated with the Indians, beinghonored with the title of white chief by theOmahas. He married, according to Indian cus-tom. Xi-co-mi, a woman of the Iowas, to whomhe was greatly attached, and whom he asgreatly feared. Ni-co-mi had been the wifeof Dr. John Gale, who had deserted her andtheir child. In 1854 Mr. Sarpy was a member 58 HISTl >RY I >!•• NEBRASKA
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Early Missouri River Sti vmboats The lower view represents a steamboat wreck on the Missouri river, copied from Early SteamboatNavigation on the Missouri River, Chittenden. The others are from photographs owned by the NebraskaState Historical Society. EARLY TRADERS 59 of the Old Town company which laid out thetown of Bellevue, and in company with Ste-phen Decatur and others laid out the town ofDecatur, where he had maintained a tradingpost In 1862, Ik- moved to Plattsmouth,where he died January 4, 1865. Sarpy countywas named in his honor. The St. Louis rela-tives of Colonel Sarpy deny that he left anyconsiderable estate. He provided, however,for the payment of an annuity of $200 to Ni-co-mi, his Indian wife, which amount was paidregularly until her death. Early Traders. A number of the hardytraders of the early days in the Plains countrydeserve special attention and, briefly sketched,their lives throw a ray of light into those earlydavs and present an understanding of theloneliness of

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