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INDEX 



Phoebe, 72 



Pilot Rock, Cherokee County, 21 



Plantain, 43 



Ploughing, fall, 33, 69, 99, 125, 



154 

 Plums, Wild, 24, 35 

 Pocket Gopher, 108, 110 

 Pope, Alexander, Pastorals, 93 

 Prairie Chickens, 35, 76 

 Prairie du Chien, 61, 62, 65 

 Prairie fires, 141, 143 

 Prairie schooner, 145, 150 

 Pumpkins, 25, 32, 39, 86, 98 



Quadrupeds, 109, 142, 167, 169, 



174 

 Quimby, founding of, 22 



Railroad, history of an Iowa, 



37 

 Railroad journeys, 28, 37, 52, 



55, 69, 97 

 Railroad right-of-way, 38, 39, 



41, 52, 98, 99 

 Railroad surveying, 22, 23, 26 

 Rattlesnakes, 82 

 Richman, Irving B.. Mascoutin 



quoted, 69 

 River, Big Sioux, 34 



Cedar, 36, 58, 134 

 Des Moines, 100, 144 

 Iowa, 132, 134 

 Little Sioux, 23 

 Mississippi, 27, 61, 63, 



64, 69, 71, 80, 88 

 Missouri, 34, 88 

 Raccoon, 100 



Shell Rock, 44, 58 

 Skunk, 39 

 Turkey, 56 

 Upper Iowa, 56 

 Wapsipinicon, 58 

 Rivers, British, 64 

 Rivers, Iowa, 46, 56, 72, 133, 



134, 144 

 Robin, 27, 40, 47, 82, 84, 86. 



120, 153, 159 

 Rogers, Julia E., Wild Animals 

 Every Child slioiild Know 

 quoted, 143 



Salem, 167, 174, 179 

 Sanicle, White. 48, 53 

 Saskatchewan, 58, 100, 177 

 Savage, William, 11; diaries 



quoted, 167, 174, 179 

 Science and sentiment, 106 

 September, general character of, 



26, 40 

 September list of flowers, 162 

 Shepherd's Purse. 85, 151 

 Shrikes, 110, 120 

 Silos, 152 

 Sioux City, 88 

 Sleighing, 124, 136 

 Slouf/h, The Old Prairie, Charles 



Aldrich, 11, 111 

 Sloughs, 38, 47, 52, 108, 111, 



119 

 Smartweed, 48, 53 

 Sneezeweed, 48, 58 

 Snow, 75, 96, 112, 122, 123, 124, 



125, 136, 179, 180 

 Snowbirds, 84, 86, 108, 120 



