[56] Petition of R. B. Clark, et al, to Governor Hempstead, July 6,
1854, in the Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa; Report of Major
William Williams to Governor Hempstead, September 1, 1854, in the
Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa.
[57] Mrs. Abbie Gardner-Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_
(1885 edition), pp. 24-31; Flickinger’s _Pioneer History of Pocahontas
County, Iowa,_ pp. 28, 29.
[58] Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 298; Gue’s _History of Iowa_, Vol.
I, p. 292; Ingham’s _Ink-pa-du-tah’s Revenge_ in the _Midland
Monthly_, Vol. IV, p. 272; Hughes’s _Causes and Results of the
Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical
Society_, Vol. XII, p. 268.
[59] Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 281.
[60] Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, pp. 281, 282; N. H. Winchell’s
_Aborigines of Minnesota_, p. 551.
[61] Other Indian chieftains who were leaders of the consolidated
bands and who were to play a prominent part in later Indian history
were Titonka, Ishtahabah or Young Sleepy Eyes, Umpashotah, Wahkonsa,
and Kasominee.
The great battles of Iowa’s inter-tribal Indian history were fought
during the period of the supremacy of these leaders. These battles
were mostly fought along the Des Moines, Skunk, Iowa, and Cedar
rivers. The most notable were: Mud Lake, southeast of the present site
of Webster City, against the Musquakies; a terrific contest with the
Sac and Fox near Adel; a second contest quite as sanguinary with the
same Indians about six miles north of the present city of Algona in
1852; a second battle with the Musquakies in April, 1852, near Clear
Lake; and one on the banks of the Lizard, in which the Sioux,
victorious, ended their long contest with the Sac and Fox. It was in
the Algona battle that the “lingering remnants of two great nations
who had for more than two hundred years waged unrelenting warfare
against each other had their last and final struggle.”--Smith’s
_History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 25. Also Fulton’s _Red Men of
Iowa_, pp. 282-287; Gue’s _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, pp. 288, 289.
[62] Smith’s _History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 29; Hoover’s
_Tragedy of Okoboji_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. V,
p. 15; Richman’s _The Tragedy at Minnewaukon_ in _John Brown among the
Quakers_, p. 208.
[63] Smith’s _History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 29.
[64] See note 32 above.
[65] Smith’s _History of Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 29. The date of
settlement here is frequently stated as 1847.
[66] Hughes’s _Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the
Collections of the _Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p. 264.
[67] For statements concerning the character of Henry Lott see Hubbard
and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, p. 222;
Lucas’s _The Milton Lott Tragedy_, pp. 1-10; Hughes’s _Causes and
Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the _Collections of the
Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, pp. 264-268; _The Spirit Lake
Massacre and Relief Expedition_ in the _Roster and Record of Iowa
Soldiers_, Vol. VI, p. 890; Gue’s _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, p. 289;
etc.
[68] Flickinger’s _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28.
[69] The Madrid (Iowa) Historical Society, on December 18, 1905, the
fifty-ninth anniversary of the boy’s death, placed an iron marker upon
his grave which had but lately been identified.--Lucas’s _The Milton
Lott Tragedy_, p. 8.
[70] The death of Mrs. Lott is said to have been the first white death
in what is now Webster County.--Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, p. 296.
[71] This cabin was in Dallas County, about five miles southwest of
Madrid. Here Lott lived until the autumn of 1847.--Lucas’s _The Milton
Lott Tragedy_, p. 5.
[72] To be definite, the cabin of Lott was in Section 16, Township 93,
Range 28 West, very near the west line of the section.--Fulton’s _Red
Men of Iowa_, p. 297.
[73] Stories as to the ruse used differ, but all now quite generally
accept the elk incident. At the same time the assertion has been made
that the incident never happened, but that Lott found at the lodge of
Sidominadota silverware stolen from him in 1847, and committed murder
forthwith.
[74] Some writers concerning this incident aver that both the girl and
boy escaped unharmed while others more romantically mention the boy as
left for dead, while the girl escaping unharmed in the darkness later
returned to the rescue of her brother. The boy, whose name was
Joshpaduta, was later taken charge of by a white family named Carter
who gave him a home. The boy would often leave and be gone for many
days when he would again return. He is said, just before the Spirit
Lake Massacre, to have warned these people of the impending trouble
and then to have disappeared. He never returned, and the presumption
is that he became a member of that band or was killed by them for
telling.--Flickinger’s _Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_,
p. 28; Gue ’s _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, p. 291; Smith’s _History of
Dickinson County, Iowa_, p. 30.
[75] See Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, pp. 293-299; Flickinger’s
_Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28; Ingham’s
_Ink-pa-du-tah’s Revenge_ in the _Midland Monthly_, Vol. IV, p. 271;
Smith’s _History of Dickinson County_, Iowa, pp. 29, 31; Gue’s
_History of Iowa_, Vol. I, pp. 289-292.
[76] Fulton’s _Red Men of Iowa_, pp. 298, 299; Flickinger’s _Pioneer
History of Pocahontas County, Iowa_, p. 28; Lucas’s _The Milton Lott
Tragedy_, p. 7; Hughes’s _Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta
Massacre_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_,
Vol. XII, p. 268.
[77] Another report declared that the prosecuting attorney of Hamilton
County had nailed the head above the entrance to his home in Homer.
Note what is said in Flickinger’s _Pioneer History of Pocahontas
County, Iowa_, p. 28; Ingham’s _Ink-pa-du-tah’s Revenge_ in the
_Midland Monthly_, Vol. IV, p. 271; Hughes’s _Causes and Results of
the Inkpaduta Massacre_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota
Historical Society_, Vol. XII, pp. 268, 269.