Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 1.djvu/22

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xii	HISTORY OF IOWA

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Chapter	Contents	Pages
	by “Border Ruffians”—Iowa “Free State” Men Imprisoned in Kansas—John Brown at Springdale—There Plans His Assault upon Slavery—Headquarters at Springdale—Remarkable Young Men who Enlisted in the Expedition—Winter Drill Among the Quakers—A Desperate Undertaking—The Canada Conference—Brown Liberates Missouri Slaves—Conducts Them Through Iowa—Eludes the Slave Catchers—Reaches party in Canada	373-383
XXX	Closing Years of the Pioneer Period—The Causes Which Brought Many West—Pioneer Life from 1832 to 1860—Choosing Homes in Unsettled Regions—Hard Life of Pioneer Women—Compensations and Entertainments—The Bleak Northwestern Prairies—Sod Houses and Muskrats—Perilous Winter Journeys—Dangers from Prairie Fires—Corn and Hay for Fuel—The Early School System—How it was Supported—Statistics of 1859—Gradual Improvement of Conditions—Pike’s Peak Gold Discoveries	385-397