I would have to reiterate Mary's point regarding the book. It can be extremely helpful, but I would use it as a starting point--there are errors in some parts of it. Michael who has a lots of roots in the West Point/Stillwell/Breckenridge/Tioga area. On 1/31/07, Mary Keller <rkeller@adams.net> wrote: > I see there are a lot of references the past several days for people > requesting information from Mrs. Bruennen's "Pioneers of the Prairie". It > has been said before and I'm going to repeat--use that book as a beginning > source but back it up with further research. There are a number of errors > and assumptions throughout that volume--as in all histories, I assume! She > did a lot of work putting that together but some of the information is in > error. > ------------------------------------ Michael John Neill 2007 Salt Lake City Research Trip http://www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html