Bird's eye view of Des Moines looking north east from Court House.

The stone pile that marks the grave of the Gardner family, massacared in 1857 and the cabin in the background.

Log House on West Okoboji Lake where Abbie Gardner and others were massacared in 1857.

View of a building containing the Daily Nonpareil and a job printer, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Views of the Great Snow Blockade, near Lawler, on the Iowa & Dakota Division of the M. & St. P.R.R.