THE OVERLAXD ROUTE COUNCIL BLUFFS TO OGDEN. 



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The village of Brule is named for the Brule Sioux Indians^ who once 



inhabited this region. 



Brule. 



The French word brulc, which means burnt, 

 seems to have been applied by the early French Cana- 

 dian trappers to these Indians because of the burnt 

 appearance of their painted faces. Also, for some 



Elevation 3,2S6 feet. 



Population 410. t x t 



Omaha 352 miles. reason not uow known, the Indians called themselves 



^^The Burned Tliighs." 

 Four miles west of the town is California Hill^ where the original 

 California trail loft the 





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Oa/^LALLA rOfv^r^ATfON 



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South Platte and crossed 

 the low table-land to 

 North Platte Kiver. 

 Until 1860 the emigrants 

 went up this river around 

 the north end of the Lar- 

 amie Mountains and over 

 the Continental Divide 

 at South Pass, But when the United States soldiers were called 

 east at the beginning of the Civil War the northern Indians became 

 so aggressive that emigrants chose the less dangerous route up the 



Figure 5.— Sketch profile of the bluHs near Brule, Nehr., show- 

 ing relation of the Ogalalla formation to the overlying beds of 

 coarse sand and gravel, od which reiat thick beds of loess. 



uted over the Great Plains. 



Along 



the 



Union Pacific it lies on the Brule clay, a 

 formation of Oligocene (Tertiary) age, 



the intervening formations being absent 

 here. Its relations are indicated in the 

 following table: 



Succession of rocis exposed in central and ivestern Nehrasla and eastern Wyoming 



Period. 



Quaternary. 



Epoch. 



Life. 



Group and formation 



Recent. 



Pleistocene. 



(Great Ice Age.) 



Ago of man 



Pliocene. 



Tertiary. 



Pliocene. 



Oligocene 



Flood-plain deposits 



Loess and gravel 



Ogalalla formation 



\ge of mammals. 



Arikaree formation 



Gering formation 



White River group: 



Brule cla5\ 

 Chadron formation 



The Ogalalla formation is overlain by 



coarse 



time, and 



this in turn is covered with the loess that 

 clothes the highlands. The relations are 

 indicated by the sketch profile, figure 5. 



