EARLY DAY STORIES. 21 



drink of buttermilk and lots of good advice from the kind 

 old Mormon lady who kept the post office. 



What is now Council Bluffs was then called Kanes- 

 ville, and Council Bluffs post office at that time was near 

 Traders' Point. I thought the country passed over from 

 St. Joseph to Traders' Point very fine, and after we crossed 

 the Missouri river and passed on west this fine country 

 continued until we crossed the Elkhorn and struck the 

 Platte bottom, after which I did not like it so well. I will 

 now say, however, after having had some experience, and 

 having traveled extensively in twenty or more states, that 

 I think the eastern third of Nebraska, and the western third 

 of Iowa, the very finest and best farming country I have 

 ever seen anywhere, of equal extent. 



