Trail Tales: The Journal of Boone County History

[Pages:24]Issue Index

Trail Tales: The Journal of Boone County History

Published by the Boone County Historical Society

Issues 1-127(September 1969 ?Spring/Summer 2018)

Compiled by Suzanne S. Caswell

Copyrighted by Suzanne S. Caswell 2019

Trail Tales Index by Issue*

Compiled by Suzanne Caswell

No.

1

2 3

4

5 6

Date

September 1969

Jan./Feb. 1970

Apr./May 1970

July/Aug. 1970

Jan./Feb. 1971 June/July 1971

Title

Page

"Historical Fair to be Held"

1

BCHS Board Meeting Held (synopsis of minutes)

2-3

"City Hall Records" (Given to BCHS)

4

"Boonesboro Pottery" (Operated by John Franklin Hyten)

4-5

"Four Men Killed: Fast Mail Jumps Track Near River Bridge"

6-9

Boone County Democrat, August 4, 1899

"On Display" (Note about A. P. Olmstead, victim of crash into Honey Creek, July 6, 1881)

9

"The Strange Men at Fraser"

10-24

By A. P. Butts

"About this Booklet" (purpose of publication)

BC

Trail Tales (First issue so named)

IFC

"Report of Committee- 1903" (Early Settlers' Association)

1-8

"Mary Brown Crossing" (Ft. D. D. M. & So. RR)

8-9

"Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth" (Report on possible museum building)

9-10

"The Boone County Historical Fair"

10-13

"Life at the Moingona Depot"

13-14

Boone Illustrated "1896" (Insert)

Imprinted Seal of the Incline Railway & Coal Co.

1

"The Runaway on Fraser Hill" (Ft. D., D. M. & So. RR)

3-13

By A. P. Butts

"Report on March 18th Meeting" (Discusses the development of Kate Shelley site)

14

"Kate Shelley's Speech, 1888"

15-39

By Kate Shelley Poem: "Grove Mine No. 1"

(IBC)

By Mrs. J. M. (Goldy) Hughes

Boone Electric Co. Time Card June 26, 1911 (Insert)

"Boone Coal District, Jan. 12, 1908, C&NW RR (Insert)

"Steamboating on the Des Moines River" (Notes source for steamboat article)

(IFC)

"When Company `D' Marched Away"

1-2

By Mrs. Fred Schlicht

"Mackey's Grove Election"

6

By Glen Mackey

"Legislative Act to Provide Aid for Historical Purposes" (House File 663, 3-13-1970)

7-8

"Stereopticon Views Reproduced (1876)"

9-10, 12-13

"Indian Eloquence" (Speech by Indian Chief)

14

"Des Moines River Steamboat Charles Rogers"

15-25

"Biggest Project Yet: `Wings'"

1

"Boomer Bill" (Ft. D. D.M. & So. RR)

2-6, 15-19

By A. P. Butts

"History: Seminole Indian Medicine Company" (Pagination mixed up)

7-9 +inserts)

"Boone City Directory 1885-6" (Reprint to be mailed to members)

1

"Carl Carlson's Biographical Sketch and Business Activities"

2-6

By Joel E. Carlson

"The Marmon W. Griffee Pottery Works"

8-10

By Mary E. Miller

"Local History is Reflected in Bank Notes, Checks, and Tokens"

11-15

By Larry Adams

"More on the Seminole Indian Medicine Co."

15

"New York to Paris Auto Race - 1908"

16-17

By Wm. D. Johnson

*Early issues of Trail Tales combined historical articles with brief news items, not all of which are included in this index. Written obituaries are included in this issue index, but death notices are not included. All obituaries and death notices are included in the subject index. Inserts of historical documents were also included with Trail Tales, sometimes loose and sometimes bound into the publication. These are noted when known. Reprints not actually bound or sent with Trail Tales are not included in this index. Books are included if reviewed or have information specifically about Boone County, Boone County resident, or an incident occurring in Boone County. Inside front cover. Inside back cover.

1

"Phoenix Block"

18

By Wm. H. Runyan

"Hickory Grove School Project"

21

"Seven Iron Bridges"

22-IBC

By John H. Goeppinger

7

Nov./Dec, "Historical Society to Acquire Building: Ridgeport ME Church"

2

1971

"Sumner Heman"

4, 20-21

"Hickory Grove School Project Shot Down"

5

"My Last Passenger Trip" (Ft. D. D.M. & So. RR)

6-9, 22- 40

By A. P. Butts

"Boone, Iowa (High Bridge name)

IBC

"New York to Paris Auto Race"

IBC

By Elmer Carlson

8

Feb./March "L. & H. Goeppinger Background"

1-6

1972

By Walter W. Goeppinger

"1881 C&NW Timetable Sent to all Members"

7

"Pioneer Merchants of Boone"

8-10

By Frank Proescholdt

"An Early Account of Boone, 1875"

12-19

9

May/June "Hickory Grove School Project Underway"

4-5

1972

By Mabel Nair Brown

"Mrs. Dr. Alleman's Scrapbook 1860-1880"

8-9

"Coal Valley School"

10

"History of Mineral Ridge M E Church"

11-12

"Boone County's Abandoned Post Offices"

13-IBC

10

July/Aug. "History in the Making" (Construction of Milwaukee Road Bridge, Madrid)

IFC

1972

"Dedication Day for Hickory Grove School"

1-2

"Mackey Iowa"

5- 12

By Samuel E. Johnson

"Fifty Years of Mining Coal"

13-IBC

By Joe Pestotnik

11

Sept./Oct. "Dr. Wallace H. Longworth's History of Medicine in Boone County" (Book)

1-2

1972

"Des Moines River Land Grant

5-11

By Hon. A. J. Barkley

"Hickory Grove Summary Report

12-17

12

Nov./Dec. "History of Medicine in Boone County" (Book)

1-2

1972

"Bus Tours Sponsored by Historical Society" (Contains historical information)

3-4

"Western Stage Company"

5-24

13

Mar./Apr. "Ledges Background"

1-10

1973

"Snowbound" (Ft.D. D.M. & So. RR)

11-17

By A.P. Butts

"The Fitch Ideal Dandruff Company"

18-23

"Frank Proesholdt" (Obit)

25

14

May/June "Ogden and Southwest Boone County Church Tours" (Contains historical information)

2-3

1973

"The Churches of Moingona"

5-9

By Mrs. James Kennedy

"The Mud Line in Boone and Webster Counties" (M&S&L RR)

10-12

By Verne Weaver

"Pioneer Family Story"

13-19

By Jacob Kirchner, Jr.

"Clay County History" (Spirit Lake Massacre)

19-20

Boone Co. Agricultural Society Fourth Annual Fair, 1881 (Insert)

15

Sept. Oct. "Eckstein/Rossow Wed at Mineral Ridge Church"

1

1973

"Col. Nathan Boone"

4-12

By C. L. Lucas

"Bess Streeter Aldrich"

14-15

By Lenore Wyckoff

"Boone Co. Post Offices"

16-18

Compiled by Larry Adams

"Madrid"

19-22

"J. C. Walker M.D."

22-23

"Tribute to Paul Wallerstedt" (Obit)

24-25

2

16 1973

17 1974

18 1974

19 1974

20 1974

21 1975

22 1975

23 1975

Boone News Republican 1910, 21st Anniversary issue (Member benefit) "Kate Shelley Committee Formed" "Al Butts Talks about Ft. D. D. M. & So. RR" (To be continued)

By Al Butts "A Sixty Mile Race" (The Claims Club)

By C. L. Lucas "Family Burial Ground Cemetery"

By Glen Mackey "Members Interested in Kate Shelley Met at Moingona" "Al Butts Talks about Ft D. D.M. & So. RR" (Continued from No. 16)

By Al Butts "History of the Valley" (Des Moines River Valley)

By Watson Knight "Ogden Reporter, Vol. I, No. 1 (Reprint of first issue June 6, 1874) Reprint of 1880 History of Boone Co. "Report, Kate Shelley Project" "History of Beaver, Iowa"

By Archie Sparks "They Who Were Strong"

By Clara Madsen "Steamboat `Charles Rogers'" "Listing of Cemeteries and Burials" "History of the Early Days, 1879" (To be continued)

By D. A. Peterson 1880 History of Boone County (Reprint) "Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace" (National Register Denial) "Correction of Beaver Story" "From `Ostergotland' to Iowa: Part I"

By D. A. Peterson "History of the Early Days, 1879" (Continued from No. 18)

By D. A. Peterson "Boone County Democrat Business Review Issue" (Early business address explanations) Shams' or Uncle Ben's Experience with Hypocrites"

By John S. Draper "Kate Shelley Memorial Park & Museum" "From `Ostergotland' to Iowa: Part II"

By D. A. Peterson "Moingona Ordinances" "Last Will and Testament of Kate Shelley" "Why Chicago & Northwestern is Left-Handed" Boone County Democrat Business Review Ed. January 1, 1885 (Insert) "Annual Spring Church Tour" (Contains Historical Information about churches) "Nic-O-Let Park"

By Edward H. Meyers "Little Zoey Dead Nearly 100 Years" "Newton & Northwestern RLY in Boone County"

By Edward H. Meyers "Kate Shelley Project" "Property Donated to Save Mamie Eisenhower's Birthplace in Boone" "Newton & Northwestern Railroad Company Time Table No. 5" (Insert) "The Story of Martin Burke"

By James B. Weaver "Kate Shelley Memorial Park and R.R. Museum (Plat drawn May 23, 1975) "Kate Shelley Lore" "Kate Shelley Kills a Wolf" "Elk Rapids, Iowa" "Railroad Passenger Service to Boonsboro, Boone County Republican 1875" 21 "Ogden Reporter, Ogden Public Library in Joint Microfilming Project" Mrs. Chester (Jeanette) Harris (Obit) Boone County Democrat, July 13, 1881 (Insert) "Years End Printing Project" (Reprinting of Community Magazine) "Kate Shelley Project at Moingona"

2-3 5 6-20

21-32

IBC

2-4 9-16

17-40

1 5 1-2 6-18

18-20

20-21 21 22-IBC

IFC 2-3 3 4 6-22

24-28

1-2 4-6

6, 22 7-21

22-24 26-27 28-IBC

2-3 4-16

18 19-25

27-28 IBC

3-11, 14

1-2,12-13 14-15 15-16 17-20

24 IFC

2-3 4-6

3

24 1975

25

1976

26

1976

27

1976

"A Tribute to Her Husband" (Poem) By Mrs. Jack Mustapha

"Boysel Samuelson Writes About Ole Swanson's Death" "John V. Eppel's Orchestra" "Way Down Missouri Where I heard this Melody" (Missouri Waltz) "Pioneer Merchants of Boone County"

By C. J. A. Ericson "Moingona Pioneer Merchants

By C. J. A. Ericson Harry N. Anderson (Obit) "Jim Fox Recalls Early Days of Magazine" (About the Community Magazine) "Major Brassfield's Story of Henry Lott's Trouble with Indians"

By Major Brassfield, narrated by Sarah Brewer-Bonebright & Harriet Bonebright-Closz "Life of Henry Lott" By Oliver S. Carlson "To Boone County from Sweden in 1846" By Roberta Anderson Smith "Wars of Boone County" By Edward H. Meyers "The River Land Company's Version" By A. J. Barkley "Beaver Depot Moved to Moingona" "Interesting Find in Moingona Church Ruins" "Sketch of Boone Schools, 1896" (School Manual of 1896) "Boone Viaduct/C&NW High Bridge Construction (Insert) By James G. Gallup "Sketch of James G. Gallup" (Inside front cover of insert) By Edward H. Myers "The Bicentennial History of the Four Fraser Schools" By Mrs. John D. (Nayse) Daugherty Index (School issue) "If We Understood" (Poem) "Fraser ? The Old Home Town" "The Rosendale Story" By May Anderson "A History of Boone County Rural Schools" By Bertha (McCall) Harten "A Story of the Schools of Boone County, Iowa" By Marvin Sturtz Amaqua Township Schools Beaver Township Schools Des Moines Township Schools Dodge Township Schools Douglas Township Schools Garden Township Schools Grant Township Schools Harrison Township Schools Jackson Township Schools Des Moines & Yell Townships (Logansport) Worth Township (Photographs of Luther Schools) Marcy Township Schools (Includes Moingona) Napier Consolidated School Peoples Township Schools Union Township Schools Yell Township Schools Chicago & Northwestern Time Table No. 29, July 1, 1870 (Insert) "A Ghost Town: Logansport" By Glenna McGinnis "Militia: Boone County in Civil War and After" By Edward H. Meyers "Dedication Day at Moingona Depot, Sept. 12, 1976"

4

9-10

10 11-12 13-20 20-27

27-32

IFC 1-2 3-8

8-10

10-14

15-16

17-18

19 2-3 5-11

1, 3-17

2 17 17-18 18-22

23-31

31-34

35-44 44-60 60-63 63-70 71-75 76 76 77-82 82-84 85 86 876-108 109-112 112-132 132-137 137-140

1-6

7-11

14

28

1977

29

1977

30

1977

31

1978

32

1978

"Membership Roster"

15-38

Boone Illustrated, 1896 (Reprint of the insert first sent in TT No. 2 Jan.-Fen 1970)

"Moingona,"

Boone County Advocate, Oct. 26, 1871

2-4

"Ogden and Moingona,"

Boone County Advocate. November 30, 1871)

4-5

Boone County Advocate, March 3, 1870

5

Boone County Advocate,, June 28, 1871

5

"Early Boone Theatres"

6, 31

By Lina Anderson

"Report of Eleanor Moore Hospital, 1902" (Insert)

7-30

"Reminiscence of a Boone County Pioneer"

32-34

By George W. Crooks

"Walter Wilson and His Crooked Creek Railroad" (Book)

35

"Kate Shelley Memorial Project"

36

"Boonsboro: Boone-Logansport Streetcar Lines"

1-14, 22-36

By Edward H. Meyers

"Temple's Grocery Store and West Boone"

15-17

By Florence Temple

"Lois Settle Reminisces about Boonsboro"

18-19

By Lois Settle

GAR State Encampment, June 5, 6, and 7 (Reprint, mailed with Trail Tales)

19

"Boonesboro Map Redrawn"

20-21

By Kirk Esliman

Photo Essay (Street cars)

22-36

"Rural School Days Memories" (To be Continued)

37-39

By Ruth Swain LeMaster

"Cemetery now in Possession of Park Board" (Latham Cemetery)

Boone County Pioneer, Oct. 31, 1921

IBC

"The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 1864"

1-10

By A. J. Barkley

"Boone Newspapers: Republican--Boone Daily--Democrat"

11-13

By John A. Rose

"A History of the Evangelical Church of Mackey"

13-14

By Glen Mackey

"Rural School Day Memories," (Continued)

14-16

By Ruth Swain LeMaster

"Osage School, District Six- People's Township"

16-17

By Mabel Davisson Peterson

"The Last Big Prairie Chicken Hunt in Boone County" (Community Magazine, Feb. 1930) 18-24

By Effie M. Kantor

"One More," August 20, 1872 (Poem)

24-26

By Mrs. Caroline A. Soule

"Society Purchases Railroad Car for Kate Shelley Museum, Moingona"

28-32

"Biographical Directory of Delander Cemetery" (Book)`

31

Descriptive Roll of Company E-3rd Iowa Infantry Volunteers (Insert)

"Ghost Train, Ft. D. D. M.& So. RR"

3-20

By A .P. Butts

"Pioneer Coal Operators, 1897"

21-22

"Iowa Winter in 1936"

23-27

"Mementos of the Depression Days"

27-28

"Harrison Township Rural School District #8"

29-31

By Adelaide Hoagland

Membership Roster

32-56

Boone County Pioneer, 1922 (Insert)

"Reprinting of Community Magazine, Vol. II"

1-2

"Circuses"

3-18

By Ben B. Wiley, Jr.

"Memories of Smalley School"

21-27

By Edith McHose Maas, Georgia Keenan Jensen, Jean Smalley Carver,

Bessie Pepper, Mrs. Bill Wood

5

33

1979

34

1979

35

1979

36

1979

37

1980

38

1980

"A. R. Crary Sold the First Ford"

29-32

By Effie Kantor

"Letter Written by Samuel Boone to His Uncle"

33-34

"Northside Driving Park"

35

By Laurie Good

"Harold D. Smith" (Obit)

2

"John I. Blair Introduction"

3-5, 49-51

By Larry Adams

"First RR Across Iowa, The Journal of John I. Blair" (Annals of Iowa pagination)

320-362

By Anthony L.Cassen

Miscellaneous illustrations Relating to J. I. Blair

49-51

"Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace"

52

"Ledges State Park, Introduction"

2, 59-60

By Larry Adams

"Ledges State Park, Second Edition, 1928" (Insert, Park Booklet Series, i-iv, 1-40)

3-58

By Louis H. Pammel

"Margaret Ione Weikel" (Obit)

IBC

"The Fragrance of Spring Was Heavy in the Air, 34th Division"

1-82 + photos

By Edward H. Meyers"

"Boone Railroad Memories, 1902-1927

83-95

By H.L. Kirk

"Kate Shelley Day Proclamation"

2-3

"Coal Mining and Coal Resources in Boone County and Story County"

5-42

By Michael A. Madsen

Photographs & documents

43-46, 48, 51-52

"W. D. Johnson Coal Company" (Boone Illustrated, 1896 + pictures)

47

"50 Years of Mining Coal" (Including photographs)

49-52

By Joe Pestotnik

"History of Mining at Madrid, Iowa"

53-63

By David V. Johnson

"Coal Mining in the Ogden Area" (Including photographs)

64-69

"Brief History of Local Unit No. 869, U.M.W. of A. (Including photographs)

70-76

"Some Further Reflections on Coal Mining" (Including photographs)

77-81

By Audrey McVay and Larry Adams

"Wallace H. Longworth, M.D." (Obit)

82

"Lillian E. Holst" (Obit)

83

Map of Boone County Coal District, 1908, C&NW RR (Insert)

Index (of Rural Schools)

2

"History of [the] Development of One Room Schools in Boone County"

3

By Evelyn Birkby

"Rural One-Room Schools of Boone County," (1896 Plat Book & Supt Reports)

3-6

"Boone County Township Divisions"

6

Amaqua Township

7-9

Beaver Township

10-13

Cass Township

13-14

Colfax Township

14-17

Des Moines Township

17-24

Dodge Township

24-27

Douglas Township

27-29

Garden Township

30-31

Grant Township

31-38

Harrison Township

38-40

Jackson Township

40-42

Marcy Township

42-48

Peoples Township

48-53

Pilot Mound Township

53-54

Union Township

54-58

Worth Township

58-60

Yell Township

60-64

Glada M. Wilson (Obit)

2

"Celebrating Kate's Courage: Kate Shelley, July 6, 1881-1981"

2 unumbered pages & 3

"Moingona"

4-6

6

39

Dec.

&

1981

40

By Susie Anderson "Moingona"

By James H. Davis "Kate Shelley--Railway Heroine" (From Iowan, Sept. 1, 1967)

By Ruth Beitz "Kate Shelley Memorial Park and Museum" Kate Shelley (Poem)

By Eugene J. Hall How Kate Shelley Crossed the Bridge (Poem)

By Mary A. Barr Ode to Moingona

By Susie E. Anderson "Kate Shelley Trail" "Kate Shelley Memorial Highway" "Douglas Township School" "Belle Point School" "Bouton Centennial, June 27, 1981" "More on Boone Country Schools" Harmony School Worth Township Douglas Township William & Jane Dickerson Photographs (Lott family) Index (Double Issue) Mill and Elevator Issue: Scope of this Issue "Government Agencies" "Grain Companies" "Regional Cooperatives" "Trade Associations" (Iowa) "National Corn Growers Association" "National Feed Ingredients Association" "National Feed and Grain Association" "Early Mills in Boone County and Surrounding Area" Boone County

Angus Beaver Berkley Boone Boxholm Ericson Jordan Luther Madrid Moingona Napier Ogden Pilot Mound Wheeler Station Wolf Dallas County Bouton Perry Woodward Greene County Grand Junction Rippey Hamilton County Bell's Mill Park Hamilton County Cooperative Seed Association Stanhope Stratford Story County Alleman

7

6-7

7-17

17-21 22-23

24

25-27

27-28 29-31 23 23 31-32 32-34+ 32-33 33-35 page not numbered 35 1 4 5-10 10-12 12-15 15-30 31-32 32-35 35 36-37

37-38 39-41 41-43 43-69 69-71 71-73 73-76 76-79 79-81 81-82 82-83 84-89 89 89-90 90-91 92-94 92 93-94 94-95 95-97 95-96 96-97 97-102 97 97-98 98-100 100-102 102-121 102-104

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