nd Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. II, Document No. 1, pp.
426-454.

[110] Ansel Briggs to the Secretary of War.--_Indian Office Files_,
1849, No. 206. The petition was dated Washington, Iowa, July 31,
1849.--_Indian Office Files_, 1849, No. 208.

[111] Major Woods's report is found in the _Indian Office Files_, 1849,
No. 174.

[112] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, April 3, 1850.

[113] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, May 16, 1850.

[114] See the letter of William Hutchinson, who was one of the party. It
is published in _The Minnesota Pioneer_, June 13, 1850. "Iowa City looks
as it did five years ago", he wrote. "A few houses were built since that
time; but evidently were not the capitol located at this place, it would
be no _great shakes_, though in time it is bound to come out. Some years
since, Uncle Sam erected expensive bridges for the good citizens of
Iowa, betwixt Dubuque and Iowa City; and strange to say the people are
suffering them to rot down without covering them. Iowa City has grown in
ten years as large as Saint Paul, which is not 2 years old. Steamboats
often get up to this place, but all will not suffice."

[115] Report of Major Woods.--_Indian Office Files_, 1850, No. 363.

[116] _The Iowa Star_ (Fort Des Moines), July 18, 1850.

[117] _The Annals of Iowa_ (First Series), Vol. VII, pp. 284, 285.

"Part of Company D. 1st regiment of U. S. Dragoons under command of
Lieut. Gardner passed through here on their way to the Missouri river.
We understand they intend to pay a visit to the Indian tribes on the
upper Missouri and from thence across Minnesota Territory to their
quarters at Ft. Snelling."--Quoted from the _Fort Des Moines Gazette_ in
the _Miners' Express_ (Dubuque), September 4, 1850. The return of the
troops to Fort Snelling is noted in _The Minnesota Pioneer_, October 3,
1850.

[118] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol. II, Pt. 3,
Document No. 2, p. 284. An account of the journey is printed in _The
Minnesota Pioneer_, February 12, 1852.

[119] Asa Whitney, a New York merchant, petitioned Congress in January,
1845, for a franchise and a grant of land to make this dream a
reality.--_Congressional Globe_, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, pp. 218,
219.

[120] Act of March 3, 1853.--_United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. X,
p. 219.

[121] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 33rd Congress, Document No.
91, pp. 1, 13, 74.

[122] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 36th Congress, D