. Iowa, the first free state in the Louisiana purchase : from its discovery to the admission of the state into the Union, 1673-1846. I* ■*%r T^ /^ 3t. ^. in the Louisiana Purchase 171 people built a log house in which BerrymanJennings taught a school in the winter of 1830-1831, the first in Iowa. Some of the half-breeds were traders, in-terpreters, and employes of the American FurCompany. Among such was Maurice Blon-deau, who had a trading-house at Flint Hills,and died and was buried there in 1829; hisname is preserved in that of one of the streetsin Keokuk. But most of the half-breeds re-tain
. Iowa, the first free state in the Louisiana purchase : from its discovery to the admission of the state into the Union, 1673-1846. I* ■*%r T^ /^ 3t. ^. in the Louisiana Purchase 171 people built a log house in which BerrymanJennings taught a school in the winter of 1830-1831, the first in Iowa. Some of the half-breeds were traders, in-terpreters, and employes of the American FurCompany. Among such was Maurice Blon-deau, who had a trading-house at Flint Hills,and died and was buried there in 1829; hisname is preserved in that of one of the streetsin Keokuk. But most of the half-breeds re-tained the habits of Indian life. In June, 1834,Congress relinquished the reversionary right ofthe United States in the tract to those whowere entitled to the same under the laws of theState of Missouri, with power to sell their sev-eral portions. Questions then arose as to whoand how many were the half-breeds, their re-spective claims, and as to the extent of thetract. Many of the half-breeds had scatteredand vanished. There were fraudulent claim-ants. The questions became entangled andconfused. They led to bitter disputes for years,and were not sett
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