History and stories of Nebraska . thanat any other post on the river. The smooth valley of thePlatte made a natural pathway; the rock foundation of thehills sloping to the riverside made a natural landing place forboats; wood and water were at hand; and the beautiful viewdown the valley where the Platte and Missouri mingle theirwaters among forested islands added to the other the soldiers abandoned Fort Atkinson in 1827 andmarched away, Bellevue became the chief post and the oldest 65 56 STORIES OF NEBRASKA town in fact as well as in story of the Nebraska first of
History and stories of Nebraska . thanat any other post on the river. The smooth valley of thePlatte made a natural pathway; the rock foundation of thehills sloping to the riverside made a natural landing place forboats; wood and water were at hand; and the beautiful viewdown the valley where the Platte and Missouri mingle theirwaters among forested islands added to the other the soldiers abandoned Fort Atkinson in 1827 andmarched away, Bellevue became the chief post and the oldest 65 56 STORIES OF NEBRASKA town in fact as well as in story of the Nebraska first of these honors she retained through all the furtrading years and the second remains hers to-day. Bellevue was the stopping place of the early adventurers,trappers, travelers, missionaries and soldiers who came tothis region. The early names in our annals cluster aboutBellevue. Peter A. Sarpy, Henry Fontenelle, Prince Maxi-milian, George Catlin, John C. Fremont, Professor Hayden,J. Sterling Morton, Brigham Young, each halted at this. Bellevue in 1833. {From Thwailess Early Western Travels. Co., Cleveland, Ohio.) hospitable lodge in the wilderness. The Indians of thePlatte valley brought hither their furs. Missionaries madehere their first attempt to civilize and Christianize steamboats began to make regular trips up theMissouri, Bellevue was one of the principal landing 1846 the Presbyterian Church fixed on Bellevue as thesite of its principal mission to the western Indians and in BELLEVUE 57 1848 the old mission building standing to-day was came the first governor to the Nebraska territory in1854 and here the first newspaper, the Nebraska Palladium,was printed. All the signs then pointed to Bellevue as afuture great metropolis of the Platte valley. Then came disaster after disaster to Bellevues fond hopes
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