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Title: Sioux City illustrated : the pioneer period and an authentic sketch of the Sioux City of today ...
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Heizer, E. P. (Edward P.)
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Publisher: Sioux City : D.C. Dunbar & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the promise was fulfilled. A more entertaining and significaut presentment ofhistoric fact would have been ditlicult to devise, and both to surviving pioneers of the Northwest whosememories retain the experiences of jtrimitive life, ami to the younger generatinu and to the visitors fromthe east to wiiom the hardships of early westt>rn days were known only by tradition, this opening displaywas, (jerliaps, the most interesting one shown during the festival. The parade moved at 10 f/clock a. m., a plattwn of police clearing the way, and after them, a band nfmusicians. Then came a band of Indians from the reservation—Omahas, Sioux and Winnebagos—number- SIOUX CITY ILLUSTRATED. ing two hundred and fifty. Seventy-five of the Indians were mounted, being in full war-paiut and feather,and clad with the skins of wild animals, bright colored j)rints and gaudy cloths. Uttering suppressedwar-whoops and brandishing weapons as they moved along, there lacked nothing to ))aint the picture which
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WOODBURY COUNTY COUUT HOUSE. in 1854 was one of terror to the adventurous settlers of the Northwest. At some distance behind the troopof mounted warriors, which went through all the evolutions of Indian warfare—charging with piercingwhoops, breaking in disorder, reforming with the precision of regular cavalry—there followed theremainder of the band in the motley vehicles and equipages which are only to be seen on an Indian SIOUX CITY ILLUSTRATED. reflervatifni. The Ht)unwH ftiul ;)u;>oBe8 were ileckfnl out in the gaudient of savage fancy, anJ they gayA^iat tlie HightH at every hand in wunderment etiaal to tliat with which they were theiuselves regarde<i hy themultitude. As the Indian l)and spetl on and ))a8.sed out of view, there came, most ap;jro;)riat*ly in the realisticpanorama, the signs of advancing civilization, the representatives of the vanguard of the mighty armywhich drove out the red man and made his hunting ground a cornfield. The pack-train followed hard

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