Here we were heartily welcomed, and every body was glad to see us, as they were about to start a company to go in search of their reported murdered friends.

It seems a missionary got lost on his way to Prairie La Crosse and had come across our deserted cabin, and when he came in he reported us as no doubt murdered.
I invested all of my hundred dollars in buying eighty acres of good Government land.

This was the first $100 I ever had and I felt very proud to be a land owner.

I felt a little more like a man now than I had ever felt before, for the money was hard earned and all mine..