Sarpy as ownerĪnd a young man named Reed as editor and printer.
Mary, some three miles down the river, in 1836 and this soon developed enough to have not only the usualĬommercial establishments to serve pioneers heading west, and the Indians, but also its own newspaper, The St. Sarpy, with several other men, established the town of St. This was in what is now the northeast corner of Mills county, opposite the city of Bellevue, Nebraska.Ĭol. His operations extended to both sides of the river and his settlement on the eastīank was known as Trader’s Point. Sarpy was the fourth person to be in charge of this post, taking up his duties in 1823. Louis and established a post for the American Fur Company, to trade with the Indians. “Įight years later a large company of traders came up the river from St. But they wereĪble to live very well as their hunters brought in ample supplies of turkeys, geese, deer, elk, buffalo and bear and “our Camp is above the high water level and richĬovered with Grass from 5 to 8 feet high interspersed with copse of Hazel, Plums, Currents.
“Musquitos so thick and troublesom that it was disagreeable and painfull to Continue a moment still,” were noted. Waters, and a large number of rattlesnakes. Lewis and Clark also found excellent catfish in the Missouri’s turbid ” Current visitors can still find stray dogs almost any place in the county. Petersen in his The Story of Iowa, strikes a familiar condition today: “Saw a Dog nearly starved on the bank, gave him som meet, Their journal, which was a masterpiece of shrewd observation and poor spelling, described the high bluffs along the river, the lack of timber, the type of soil Their historic journey up the Missouri river in 1804, reaching the southwest corner of what is now Iowa (it was then included in the Territory of Michigan) July 18th of Captain Merriweather Lewis and Captain William Clark made The first white settlement in Mills County was established nearly a dozen years before the Pottawattamie came.
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