History and stories of Nebraska . d name, whichstuck to it for fifty years. Upon the map prepared for Ma-jor Long appears the words Great Desert stretching fromthe Platte valley to the Red River in Texas. In his report MAJOR LONGS EXPEDITION 49 upon the country, Major Long said: It is almost whollyunfit for cultivation and of course uninhabitable for people1 depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. QUESTIONS 1. Was Big Elks reasoning correct in regard to the white men and the Indian land? 2. What do you think of Petalesharus character from his speech? 3. What did Major Longs expeditio
History and stories of Nebraska . d name, whichstuck to it for fifty years. Upon the map prepared for Ma-jor Long appears the words Great Desert stretching fromthe Platte valley to the Red River in Texas. In his report MAJOR LONGS EXPEDITION 49 upon the country, Major Long said: It is almost whollyunfit for cultivation and of course uninhabitable for people1 depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. QUESTIONS 1. Was Big Elks reasoning correct in regard to the white men and the Indian land? 2. What do you think of Petalesharus character from his speech? 3. What did Major Longs expedition do for Nebraska? OLD FORT ATKINSON ON the site of the Council Bluff where Lewis and Clarkfirst held council with the Indians, once stood Old FortAtkinson, built in the year 1819, the first United States fortin Nebraska. The Rifle regiment and the Sixth Infantrywere here. It was a large, strong fort with fifteen cannonand several hundred soldiers. Besides the soldiers therewere teamsters, laborers, traders, hunters, trappers and. Plan of Fort Atkinson, Nebraska, 1819-1827. {Drawing by MissMartha Turner.) Indians, making a town of nearly a thousand people. Theyhad a brick yard and a lime kiln. Rock was quarried fromthe ledges along the river. A saw mill and a grist mill werekept busy. Hundreds of acres of rich Nebraska land werefarmed and thousands of bushels of grain raised. Roadsran in all directions from this fort on the Council came to it from all parts of the West for it was themost western army post in the United States. From far-off SO OLD FORT ATKINSON 51 Santa Fe Mexicans came here to meet the Pawnee Indiansand make peace with them. White women were were marriages and births. Children played aboutthe bluff and probably the first school in Nebraska wastaught here. Fort Atkinson was the largest town of earlyNebraska and the only town in Nebraska at that time. To this fort in the summer of 1823 came the news that aparty of American trappers had be
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