An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . tity of driftwood, that when thewater went down, the drift settling upon the coach crushed it topieces.
An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . tity of driftwood, that when thewater went down, the drift settling upon the coach crushed it topieces. At Iowaville, the wide, beautiful bottom prairies were one vastsheet of water; the flood reached from bluff to bluff; the riverwas a mile wide; all the buildings which stood near the banks ofthe river were raised from their foundations and floated down thestream, and several families, when the flood abated, found them-selves without a home. The waters of the river, when theywere at their highest stage, as they rushed along in their madcareer, presented a most singular appearance. The surface of theliver was oval; being several feet higher in the middle of the cur-rent than at the banks; so much so, that a person of ordinaryght standing at the waters edge, could not see the bank onthe opposite side. This flood surpassed anything that had ever been known in thehistory of the country, within the memory of the oldest inhabi-tant, or that of the native who resided here before the country. 212 Tuttles History of Iowa. in a few hours would breathe their last. When one of a familybecame sick, another and another would be attacked, till oftenwhole families in a few hours would be taken away. Neighbor-hoods became alarmed, and many left their homes, and frequentlyit was difficult to get any one to take care of the sick or bury thedead. The flood, the failure of the crops and the sickness in Iowa,made many dissatisfied and anxious to leave the country, andthose of them who could, dispose
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