Collection of Nebraska pioneer reminiscences . amily;the other three were supposed to be occupied by bacheloi^. We arranged with Mi-. Davis for a bed in an upper room ofone of the vacant houses. We were tenderfeet from the Eastand therefore rather suspicious of the surroundings, there beingno lock on the lower door. To avoid being surprised we piledeverything we could find against the door. About midnight wewere awakened by a terrible noise; our fortifications had fallenand we heard the tramp of feet below. Some of the preemptorshad been out on section 37 for wood and the lower room waawhere t
Collection of Nebraska pioneer reminiscences . amily;the other three were supposed to be occupied by bacheloi^. We arranged with Mi-. Davis for a bed in an upper room ofone of the vacant houses. We were tenderfeet from the Eastand therefore rather suspicious of the surroundings, there beingno lock on the lower door. To avoid being surprised we piledeverything we could find against the door. About midnight wewere awakened by a terrible noise; our fortifications had fallenand we heard the tramp of feet below. Some of the preemptorshad been out on section 37 for wood and the lower room waawhere they kept the horse feed. The next morning we paid our lodging and resumed the jour-ney west. Twelve miles from Han-ard we found four morehouses placed by the Burlington. The village was called Inlandand was on the east line of Adams county but has since beenjnoved east into Clay county. Just before reaching Inland wemet a man coming from the west with a load of buffalo meat andat Inland we found C. S. Jaynes, one of the preemptors, sitting 18. Oregon Trail Mon-ument ON Nebraska-Wyoming State Line Erected by the Sons andDaughters of the Ameri-can Kevolution of Ne-braska and April 4, $200 Monument on the OregonTrail Seven miles south of Hastings. Erected by Niobrara Chapter, Daughters of the American Eevo- lution at a cost of $100
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