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offered settlers to establish themselves here. I noticed 

 some broken fields, and blue smoke curling up from 

 farm houses in the distance ; and after eighteen miles 

 of enjoyable exercise in the pure prairie atmosphere, 

 reached this small village, where 1 concluded to halt 

 for the night. 



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private ffouse, 

 Dale City, Iowa, 

 October Sixteenth. 



Weather warmer, pleasant and more invigorating 

 than during the past few days. Left Adel at eight 

 o'clock A. M, and })assed through Redfield at eleven, 

 still on tlie great prairie which appears to have no 

 limit. From the hilltops the valleys wear the aspect 

 of cultivated meadows and rich pastures; and on the 

 level sp/sads the wild prairie, decked with flowers, its 

 long W9 res stretching away till sky and prairie mingle 

 In the ( \stance. Twenty years ago the red men chased 

 the elk ind buffalo where now are prairie farms and 

 prair'« homes. As I advance, I meet occasionally 

 with ttees skirting the streams that find their way to 

 the 'ivers that intersect this beautiful State. 



Had dinner at a prairie farm house and talked poli- 

 tics with the farmer, whom I found was an enthusi- 

 astic admirer of Peter Cooper. He did not expect his 

 political favorite would be elected, but as a matter of 

 principle would vote for him. I told him if he called 

 himself a Republican, he should cast his vote for Gov- 

 ernc" Hayes, but my advice probably had little effect 

 upc him. Reached Dale City about one o'clock. It 



