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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Co.,
Springfield, Ill: 1884


  280-281
                              CHAPTER VI
          REMINISCENSES, INCIDENTS AND PERSONAL RECOLLECTONS

                       FROM AN OLD SETTLERS DIARY

        May 6, 1861.— S. M. HOLLADAY, now a resident of Massena township,
     left his home in Winterset, Madison county, for a trip to the moun-
     tains, by wagon. He kept a diary of the trip, and kindly allows
     the following extract, regarding Cass county to be taken therefrom :
        "May 8, 1861, we had a very pleasant day. The wind had layed, and
     it was not very hot. Our brother campers having several of the female
     sex along, complained very much about profane language that was used
     by our company. We camped in a small town called Whitneyville. We met
     with our friend, FRANK WHITNEY, who invited us to supper, and intro-
     duced us to his wife, and treated us to the whisky. After supper was
     over we chatted by the fire and happened to see our cattle starting
     off down the road toward home. We started after them, and were obliged
     to follow them about six miles before we could overtake them.
        "The morning of May 9, brought a pleasant day, and a pleasant
     night's rest was finished. After breakfast we had the pleasure of
     seeing two hundred United States troops pass in uniform and marching
     order. They were from Fort Randall, Dakota Territory. About the middle
     of the day we had a rain, which was steady for about four hours, but
     not very hard. Our things were not very wet. At night we arrived at
     the Nishnabotna, in Cass county, and camped in the bottom north of
     town. There were several wagons camped in the bottom. We had consi-
     derable fun swimming the cattle across the river to grass, and had
     some music of violins and songs in the evening after supper. We had
     boiled one of our pigs, of which I partook of so freely that I was
     sick for some time afterward.
        "On the morning of May 10, the roads being soft after the rain, and
     the weather rather cool, we made a very good day's drive. We took what
     is called the right hand, or ridge road from Lewis, and left our
     fellow-travelers. In the afternoon I shot a prairie chicken and had a
     good old time cooking it, as it was older than Noah himself. In the
     evening we camped upon the west fork of the Nishnabotna, a beautiful
     valley, surrounded on all sides by timber."

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