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Trail Tales: the Journal of Boone County History Published by the Boone County Historical Society Author Index Trail Tales: The Journal of Boone County History Published by the Boone County Historical Society Issues 1-127 (September 1969 – Spring/Summer 2018) Only articles with named authors are included in this index Compiled by Suzanne S. Caswell Copyrighted by Suzanne S. Caswell 2019 Trail Tales Index by Author Compiled by Suzanne Caswell Name/Title No. Date Page Adams, Larry “Belluci’s Pizza House” 75 4/95 12-17 “Boone County Post Offices” 15 9-10/73 16-18 “Brief History of Boone County Historical Society and Trail Tales” 74 12/94 7-20 “Frederick J. Bandholtz, Photographer (1877-1963) 43 12/82 17-19 “How This Project Began” 107 Spr/07 1-3 “Important Dates in Boone County History” 74 12/94 21-25 “Industrial Development – 1890-1987” (Editor’s notes) 53 9/87 2 “Iowans Called to Valor” (Book) 74 12/94 44 “John I. Blair Introduction” 33 1979 3-5, 49-51 “Ledges State Park, Introduction” 34 1979 2, 59-60 “Local History is Reflected in Bank Notes, Checks, and Tokens” 6 6-7/71 11-15 “New Medical History Exhibit Completed” 80 12/96 6-7 “100 Issues of Trail Tales” 100 10/03 20 “Percival Galleries Donate Frank Miller Cartoons to Mamie Doud Eisenhower 49 8/85 29 Birthplace” “Raze Shangri-La Motel” 77 12/95 24-25 “Some Further Reflections on Coal Mining” 36 1980 77-81 “The Boone City Hall” 72 4/94 7-13 “The Boone County Coroner System: 1850-1960” 107 Spr/07 4-13 “The Boone County Courthouse: A Proud History” 54 2/88 7-12 The Way it Was (Book) This is Herb” with Never a Dull Moment (Book) 64 9/91 40 Alban, Gary “1900s Arrival in Boone Was Apparently Routine” 89 1/00 3 “Boone County Historical Society Takes Step toward Museum” 57 5/89 2-3 “Chinese Engine Has Arrived” 58 12/89 35-36 “Don Silver’s Search for Nathan Boone becomes a Literary Adventure, Reality” 98 1202 34-35 “Is the Ogden Reporter Boone Co.’s Oldest Business?” 78 4/96 8-9 “Lincoln Highway Book Details Trip through Boone Co., Iowa” (Book) 76 7/95 28 “Missing Jesse James Plaque Is Found in Ogden” 53 9/87 41 “Ogden Municipal Utilities Celebrates 100th Anniversary of its Electric Dept.” 100 10/03 1-8 “Purchase Building for Museum” 60 8/90 2 “Research on Bond Issues in Ogden Yields Some Interesting Information” 87 6/99 19-23 Aldrich, Charles “The Building of an Autograph Collection (Reprint) 61 12/90 22-37 Ames, Anthony, "Brooklyn Supreme" 126 1/18 11-12 Anderson, Adrian “The Stoll Bottling Works and the Soft Drink Industry in Boone, Iowa” 97 9/02 1-10 Anderson, B. Frank. “A History Story” 72 4/94 23-27 Anderson, Elizabeth “Chamber Leader is Set for a New Millennium” 83 12/97 22-25 Anderson, Lina “Early Boone Theatres” 28 1977 6, 31 Anderson, Mae (May) “History of Mackey Methodist Churches” 86 12/98 13-16 “The Rosendale Story” 26 1976 18-22 Anderson, Susie. “Moingona” 38 1980 4-6 “Ode to Moingona” (Poem) 38 1980 25-27 Ausberger, Bob “1994 Lincoln Highway Association Conference in Ames, August 24-28” 73 6/94 17-18 Only identified authors are included in this listing, unless authorship can be reasonably determined through the context of the article or accompanying references. Recommended books are noted, but authors of book reviews are listed only if they are named. 1 Ausberger, Joyce “1994 Lincoln Highway Association Conference in Ames, August 24-28” 73 6/94 17-18 Bachtell, James “Photos Preserve Boone History” 70 6/93 4 Barkley, Alonzo J. “Des Moines River Land Grant” 11 9-10/72 5-11 “How Boonesboro Lost a Railroad Station” 49 8/82 24-26 “The Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, 1864” 30 1977 1-10 “The River Land Company’s Version” 24 1975 17-18 Barr, Mary A. “How Kate Shelley Crossed the Bridge” (Poem) 38 1980 24 Bartlett, Andy "A Life's Work at the Ledges" 127 Spring/Sum 18 4-5 "How Did This Get Here?" 127 Spring/Sum 18 12 "Submerged in History: Progress vs. Preservation" 127 Spring/Sum 18 6-7 Bass, Christine “The 1912 Election in Boone, Iowa” 109 Win-Sp/08 1-12 Becker, Joel “AARP Celebrates 25 Years in Boone” 87 6/99 16-17 Beitz, Ruth “Kate Shelley—Railway Heroine” 38 1980 7-17 Belluci, Lorraine “Belluci’s Pizza House” 75 4/95 12-17 Bennett, Charlotte “The Bennett Mine” 43 12/82 2-9 Bennett, Gerald “The Bennett Mine” 43 12/82 2-9 Bergman, Sydney "Andrew Downing, not a One Trick Pony" Text not numbered 123 Sum/Fall 15 3 Bergstrom, Irene Rothfus “Introduction for the Autobiography of Gottfried Walz” 47 7/84 22-27 Bergstrom, Kathryn “Madrid’s First Frame Home Refurbished” 66 3/92 15-17 Bergstrom, Norman “Charles and Anna C. (Dalander) Gaston” 66 3/92 18-20, 25 “Charles Victor Donaldson: West point Graduate” 77 12/95 20-23 Birkby, Evelyn “History of the Development of One Room Schools in Boone County” 37 1980 3 Blackley, Emma “Yesterday and Today” 94 9/01 21-23 Board of Directors (BCHS) "Moving Forward at Mamie's" 127 Sp/Sum 18 15 Boehm, Arnold “Chronology of Ogden, Iowa: The ‘Boehm’ Clan” 6 11/88 6-13 Bonebright-Closz, Harriet “Major Brassfield’s Story of Henry Lott’s Trouble with Indians 24 1975 3-8 Boone, Samuel “Letter Written by Samuel Boone to His Uncle” 32 1978 33-34 Bradley, Van Allen, Jr. “How Does Your Town Compare?” (Reprint) 59 4/90 8-12 Brassfield, Major “Major Brassfield’s Story of Henry Lott’s Trouble with Indians” 24 1975 3-8 Brewster-Bonebright, Sarah “Major Brassfield’s Story of Henry Lott’s Trouble with Indians” 24 1975 3-8 Brigham, Johnson “The Garst Administration” 58 12/89 30-31 Brown, Farwell T. “Eisenhower’s First Visit to Ames” 59 4/90 4-7 “Gilbert Area Coal Mines: Zenorsville Mines and Summit Mines” 83 12/97 5-11 Brown, Mabel Nair “Hickory Grove School Project Underway” 9 5-6/72 4-5 “Hickory Grove Summary Project” 11 9-10/72 12-13 2 “History of the Ogden Community United Methodist Church” 59 4/90 18-22 Bruner, Jeffrey “Jack Shelley: Iowa’s Voice, Gentleman Reporter Named Citizen of Year” 78 4/96 5-8 Bullard, Charles “Fitch Family Donate Barber Exhibit to State” 49 8/85 27 Burkhart, Jill “Beaver Establishes Own Historical Society” 49 8/85 27-28 “Peter Toth Sculpture at Ogden” 6 11/88 21-IBC Burns, Helen (Carpenter) “Early Carpenter Family of Boone County, Iowa: Memoirs of Civil War” 71 12/93 10-21 Burns, Warren “Early Carpenter Family of Boone County, Iowa: Memoirs of Civil War” 71 12/93 10-23 Buttolph, J. R. “A War Story: Memoirs of the Civil War” 54 2/88 13-37 Buttolph, Loren D. “A War Story: Memoirs of the Civil War” 54 2/88 13-37 Butts, A. P. “Al Butts Talks about Ft.. D. D. M. & So. RR” 16 1973 6-20 “Al Butts Talks about Ft.. D. D. M. & So. RR” (Continued) 17 1974 9-16 “Boomer Bill” 5 1-2/71 2-6, 15-19 “Ghost Train Ft. D. D. M. & So. RR. 31 1978 3-20 “My Last Passenger Trip” 7 11-12/71 6-9, 22-40 “Snowbound” 13 3-4/73 11-17 “The Runaway on Fraser Hill” 3 4-5/70 3-13 “The Strange Men at Fraser” 1 9/69 10-24 Walter Willson and His Crooked Creek Railroad (Book) 28 1977 35 Carlson, Elmer “New York to Paris Auto Race” 7 11-12/71 IBC Carlson, Eric “Chamber of Commerce Moves into Historic Railroad Building” 6 6/02 19-20 Carlson, Helen “Carlson’s EcoWater Systems Celebrates 50 Years” 92 12/00 22-23 Carlson, Jim “Herrald Drug ‘Mini Museum’ to Feature Pharmacy Items” 79 8/96 10-11 Carlson, Joel E. “Carl Carlson” Biographical Ketch and Business Activities 6 6-7/71 2-6 Carlson, Oliver S. “Life of Henry Lott” 24 1975 8-10 Carpenter, Hezekiah Pray “Civil War Memories” 71 12/93 12-17 “Chronology of Civil War Events” 71 12/93 17-21 Carver, Jean Smalley “Smalley School” 32 1978 25 Casotti, Ty “Biography of Alfredo (Fred A.) Casotti” 84 4/98 18-23 “Boone County ‘Lincoln Highway’ Update” 70 6/93 22-25 “Early History of Fraser, Iowa” 84 4/98 8-17 “Routes of the Lincoln Highway across Boone County” 69 4/93 22-25 Cassen, Anthony L. “Surveying the First RR across Iowa, The Journal of John I. Blair” (Reprint) 33 1979 Annals of Iowa pagination 320-362 Caswell, Suzanne “A Journey Through Darkest America with Truck and Train” 113 Spring/10 1-20 “A Short History of Boone’s Universalist Church” 121 Sum/Fall/14 41-48 “Ardon Benjamin Holcomb: Boone’s Unsung Founder” 122 Win/Spring/15 2-33 “Boone County at the End of the Nineteenth Century” 115 Spring/11 1-3 “Boone in 1882” (Short Version) 117 Spring/12 1-2 “Boone, Iowa” (Burlington Hawkeye, January 19, 1882, Short Version, S. Caswell, ed.) 117 Spring/12 3-38 “Boone in 1882,” (Long Version) 117 Spring/12 1-2 “Boone, Iowa” (Burlington Hawkeye, January 19, 1882, Long Version, S. Caswell, ed.) 117 Spring/12 3-61 “Caroline Soule, the First Woman to be Ordained in Great Britain, was Boonesboro Resident” 121 Sum/Fall/14 1-15 3 “Caroline Soule’s Novel, Pet of the Settlement, is set in Boone County 121 sum/Fall/14 17- 40 “Cave J.
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