National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-10-15
Dorm the CreeE.
A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUNDS


the forest and prairies of western
Iowa, there was strip of country,
sixty miles wide and much longer,
living west of Des Moines River
known AS the "Neutral Grounds"
1t was so called from the fact that
the several Indian tribes that inhab
tied the surrounding country were
continually at war, and each tribe
fearing the others, never ventured
ou it for many years. CouSc-
quently, the "Neutral Grounds had
become the peaceful retreat OF bears,
panthers, deer, elk, raccoons and
turkeys, all of which roamed the
forest along the Des MoincS ut will,
until the white mans rifle broke the
silence of their paradise.
1t was during the year of 1910,
that two advcnturesome young hunt
prs, named Zcb Pierce and Tim Trott,
erected Int ON the banks of large
crcck--a tributary of Skunk River,
which flowed through that portion
Of the Neutral Grounds, now in
cluded in Boone County.
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