The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . e. And this may mean that he neverset foot on Nebraska soil, and again, that he advanced some distance intothe state. In the twenty-five years since Judge Savaee presented his paper agreat deal of new light has been shed on the subject. The route of(Joronado has been minutely studied. It has been established beyondquestion that the Quivera Indians were the Wichitas,—they being the onlyIndians in all that region who built grass houses. A great river which GLIMPSES OF STATE HISTORY 47 Coronado crossed on his way to Quivera has bee
The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . e. And this may mean that he neverset foot on Nebraska soil, and again, that he advanced some distance intothe state. In the twenty-five years since Judge Savaee presented his paper agreat deal of new light has been shed on the subject. The route of(Joronado has been minutely studied. It has been established beyondquestion that the Quivera Indians were the Wichitas,—they being the onlyIndians in all that region who built grass houses. A great river which GLIMPSES OF STATE HISTORY 47 Coronado crossed on his way to Quivera has been very closely identified asthe Arkansas. With these two points conceded it is not hard to fix thevalley of the Kansas river in the vicinity of Fort Rily as the true site ofQuivera. Here are the remains of a vast former Indian population,—acresof rough flint axes, knives and arrow heads, and at a distance of a few milesother remains of a finer flint workmanship mixed with thousands of frag-ments of pottery. Exploration begun in 1896 on this site by Mr J. Quivera Monument, Junction City, Kansas, Brower of Minnesota, culiminated in the declaration by him that he hadrediscovered Quivera.—A. E. Sheldon in Semi-Centennial History ofNebraska, Lincoln. 1904. It is surprising how often even really great scholars will overreachthemselves in their zealous endeavors to substantiate their claims and toprove their contentions. Much eager credulity is too often displayed inattempts to prove ones pet theory. And in this respect it seems to me, our 48 THE TRAIL OF THE LOUP esteemed friend, Jugde Savage, was no exception. He states in a noteto his paper that the engineer of the new branch of the Union PacificRailway, now building northward along one of the forks of the Loup, reportnumerous ancient mounds along their route, and many evidences of oncepopulous cities. Specimens of the ancient pottery, with the shards of whichthe ground is thickly strewn, are almost identical with those s
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