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Issue Index Trail Tales: the Journal of Boone County History Issue Index Trail Tales: The Journal of Boone County History Published by the Boone County Historical Society Issues 1-127(September 1969 –Spring/Summer 2018) Compiled by Suzanne S. Caswell Copyrighted by Suzanne S. Caswell 2019 Trail Tales Index by Issue* Compiled by Suzanne Caswell No. Date Title Page 1 September “Historical Fair to be Held” 1 1969 BCHS Board Meeting Held (synopsis of minutes) 2-3 “City Hall Records” (Given to BCHS) 4 “Boonesboro Pottery” (Operated by John Franklin Hyten) 4-5 “Four Men Killed: Fast Mail Jumps Track Near River Bridge” 6-9 Boone County Democrat, August 4, 1899 “On Display” (Note about A. P. Olmstead, victim of crash into Honey Creek, July 6, 1881) 9 “The Strange Men at Fraser” 10-24 By A. P. Butts “About this Booklet” (purpose of publication) BC 2 Jan./Feb. Trail Tales (First issue so named) IFC† 1970 “Report of Committee- 1903” (Early Settlers’ Association) 1-8 “Mary Brown Crossing” (Ft. D. D. M. & So. RR) 8-9 “Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth” (Report on possible museum building) 9-10 “The Boone County Historical Fair” 10-13 “Life at the Moingona Depot” 13-14 Boone Illustrated “1896” (Insert) 3 Apr./May Imprinted Seal of the Incline Railway & Coal Co. 1 1970 “The Runaway on Fraser Hill” (Ft. D., D. M. & So. RR) 3-13 By A. P. Butts “Report on March 18th Meeting” (Discusses the development of Kate Shelley site) 14 “Kate Shelley’s Speech, 1888” 15-39 By Kate Shelley Poem: “Grove Mine No. 1” (IBC)‡ By Mrs. J. M. (Goldy) Hughes Boone Electric Co. Time Card June 26, 1911 (Insert) “Boone Coal District, Jan. 12, 1908, C&NW RR (Insert) 4 July/Aug. “Steamboating on the Des Moines River” (Notes source for steamboat article) (IFC) 1970 “When Company ‘D’ Marched Away” 1-2 By Mrs. Fred Schlicht “Mackey’s Grove Election” 6 By Glen Mackey “Legislative Act to Provide Aid for Historical Purposes” (House File 663, 3-13-1970) 7-8 “Stereopticon Views Reproduced (1876)” 9-10, 12-13 “Indian Eloquence” (Speech by Indian Chief) 14 “Des Moines River Steamboat Charles Rogers” 15-25 5 Jan./Feb. “Biggest Project Yet: ‘Wings’” 1 1971 “Boomer Bill” (Ft. D. D.M. & So. RR) 2-6, 15-19 By A. P. Butts “History: Seminole Indian Medicine Company” (Pagination mixed up) 7-9 +inserts) 6 June/July “Boone City Directory 1885-6” (Reprint to be mailed to members) 1 1971 “Carl Carlson’s Biographical Sketch and Business Activities” 2-6 By Joel E. Carlson “The Marmon W. Griffee Pottery Works” 8-10 By Mary E. Miller “Local History is Reflected in Bank Notes, Checks, and Tokens” 11-15 By Larry Adams “More on the Seminole Indian Medicine Co.” 15 “New York to Paris Auto Race - 1908” 16-17 By Wm. D. Johnson *Early issues of Trail Tales combined historical articles with brief news items, not all of which are included in this index. Written obituaries are included in this issue index, but death notices are not included. All obituaries and death notices are included in the subject index. Inserts of historical documents were also included with Trail Tales, sometimes loose and sometimes bound into the publication. These are noted when known. Reprints not actually bound or sent with Trail Tales are not included in this index. Books are included if reviewed or have information specifically about Boone County, Boone County resident, or an incident occurring in Boone County. † Inside front cover. ‡ Inside back cover. 1 “Phoenix Block” 18 By Wm. H. Runyan “Hickory Grove School Project” 21 “Seven Iron Bridges” 22-IBC By John H. Goeppinger 7 Nov./Dec, “Historical Society to Acquire Building: Ridgeport ME Church” 2 1971 “Sumner Heman” 4, 20-21 “Hickory Grove School Project Shot Down” 5 “My Last Passenger Trip” (Ft. D. D.M. & So. RR) 6-9, 22- 40 By A. P. Butts “Boone, Iowa (High Bridge name) IBC “New York to Paris Auto Race” IBC By Elmer Carlson 8 Feb./March “L. & H. Goeppinger Background” 1-6 1972 By Walter W. Goeppinger “1881 C&NW Timetable Sent to all Members” 7 “Pioneer Merchants of Boone” 8-10 By Frank Proescholdt “An Early Account of Boone, 1875” 12-19 9 May/June “Hickory Grove School Project Underway” 4-5 1972 By Mabel Nair Brown “Mrs. Dr. Alleman’s Scrapbook 1860-1880” 8-9 “Coal Valley School” 10 “History of Mineral Ridge M E Church” 11-12 “Boone County’s Abandoned Post Offices” 13-IBC 10 July/Aug. “History in the Making” (Construction of Milwaukee Road Bridge, Madrid) IFC 1972 “Dedication Day for Hickory Grove School” 1-2 “Mackey Iowa” 5- 12 By Samuel E. Johnson “Fifty Years of Mining Coal” 13-IBC By Joe Pestotnik 11 Sept./Oct. “Dr. Wallace H. Longworth’s History of Medicine in Boone County” (Book) 1-2 1972 “Des Moines River Land Grant 5-11 By Hon. A. J. Barkley “Hickory Grove Summary Report 12-17 12 Nov./Dec. “History of Medicine in Boone County” (Book) 1-2 1972 “Bus Tours Sponsored by Historical Society” (Contains historical information) 3-4 “Western Stage Company” 5-24 13 Mar./Apr. “Ledges Background” 1-10 1973 “Snowbound” (Ft.D. D.M. & So. RR) 11-17 By A.P. Butts “The Fitch Ideal Dandruff Company” 18-23 “Frank Proesholdt” (Obit) 25 14 May/June “Ogden and Southwest Boone County Church Tours” (Contains historical information) 2-3 1973 “The Churches of Moingona” 5-9 By Mrs. James Kennedy “The Mud Line in Boone and Webster Counties” (M&S&L RR) 10-12 By Verne Weaver “Pioneer Family Story” 13-19 By Jacob Kirchner, Jr. “Clay County History” (Spirit Lake Massacre) 19-20 Boone Co. Agricultural Society Fourth Annual Fair, 1881 (Insert) 15 Sept. Oct. “Eckstein/Rossow Wed at Mineral Ridge Church” 1 1973 “Col. Nathan Boone” 4-12 By C. L. Lucas “Bess Streeter Aldrich” 14-15 By Lenore Wyckoff “Boone Co. Post Offices” 16-18 Compiled by Larry Adams “Madrid” 19-22 “J. C. Walker M.D.” 22-23 “Tribute to Paul Wallerstedt” (Obit) 24-25 2 16 Boone News Republican 1910, 21st Anniversary issue (Member benefit) 2-3 1973 “Kate Shelley Committee Formed” 5 “Al Butts Talks about Ft. D. D. M. & So. RR” (To be continued) 6-20 By Al Butts “A Sixty Mile Race” (The Claims Club) 21-32 By C. L. Lucas “Family Burial Ground Cemetery” IBC By Glen Mackey 17 “Members Interested in Kate Shelley Met at Moingona” 2-4 1974 “Al Butts Talks about Ft D. D.M. & So. RR” (Continued from No. 16) 9-16 By Al Butts “History of the Valley” (Des Moines River Valley) 17-40 By Watson Knight 18 “Ogden Reporter, Vol. I, No. 1 (Reprint of first issue June 6, 1874) 1 1974 Reprint of 1880 History of Boone Co. 5 “Report, Kate Shelley Project” 1-2 “History of Beaver, Iowa” 6-18 By Archie Sparks “They Who Were Strong” 18-20 By Clara Madsen “Steamboat ‘Charles Rogers’” 20-21 “Listing of Cemeteries and Burials” 21 “History of the Early Days, 1879” (To be continued) 22-IBC By D. A. Peterson 19 1880 History of Boone County (Reprint) IFC 2-3 1974 “Mamie Eisenhower Birthplace” (National Register Denial) 3 “Correction of Beaver Story” 4 “From ‘Ostergotland’ to Iowa: Part I” 6-22 By D. A. Peterson “History of the Early Days, 1879” (Continued from No. 18) 24-28 By D. A. Peterson 20 “Boone County Democrat Business Review Issue” (Early business address explanations) 1-2 1974 Shams’ or Uncle Ben’s Experience with Hypocrites” 4-6 By John S. Draper “Kate Shelley Memorial Park & Museum” 6, 22 “From ‘Ostergotland’ to Iowa: Part II” 7-21 By D. A. Peterson “Moingona Ordinances” 22-24 “Last Will and Testament of Kate Shelley” 26-27 “Why Chicago & Northwestern is Left-Handed” 28-IBC Boone County Democrat Business Review Ed. January 1, 1885 (Insert) 21 “Annual Spring Church Tour” (Contains Historical Information about churches) 2-3 1975 “Nic-O-Let Park” 4-16 By Edward H. Meyers “Little Zoey Dead Nearly 100 Years” 18 “Newton & Northwestern RLY in Boone County” 19-25 By Edward H. Meyers “Kate Shelley Project” 27-28 “Property Donated to Save Mamie Eisenhower’s Birthplace in Boone” IBC “Newton & Northwestern Railroad Company Time Table No. 5” (Insert) 22 “The Story of Martin Burke” 3-11, 14 1975 By James B. Weaver “Kate Shelley Memorial Park and R.R. Museum (Plat drawn May 23, 1975) 1-2,12-13 “Kate Shelley Lore” 14-15 “Kate Shelley Kills a Wolf” 15-16 “Elk Rapids, Iowa” 17-20 “Railroad Passenger Service to Boonsboro, Boone County Republican 1875” 21 “Ogden Reporter, Ogden Public Library in Joint Microfilming Project” 24 Mrs. Chester (Jeanette) Harris (Obit) IFC Boone County Democrat, July 13, 1881 (Insert) 23 “Years End Printing Project” (Reprinting of Community Magazine) 2-3 1975 “Kate Shelley Project at Moingona” 4-6 3 “A Tribute to Her Husband” (Poem) 9-10 By Mrs. Jack Mustapha “Boysel Samuelson Writes About Ole Swanson’s Death” 10 “John V. Eppel’s Orchestra” 11-12 “Way Down Missouri Where I heard this Melody” (Missouri Waltz) 13-20 “Pioneer Merchants of Boone County” 20-27 By C. J. A. Ericson “Moingona Pioneer Merchants 27-32 By C. J. A. Ericson Harry N. Anderson (Obit) IFC 24 “Jim Fox Recalls Early Days of Magazine” (About the Community Magazine) 1-2 1975 “Major Brassfield’s Story of Henry Lott’s Trouble with Indians” 3-8 By Major Brassfield, narrated by Sarah Brewer-Bonebright & Harriet Bonebright-Closz “Life of Henry Lott” 8-10 By Oliver S.
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