Hello: I suspect that 1860 might be a little early. The first permanent settlement in Cloud County did not occur until 1865. The were some settlers before then but no permanent town because of problems with the Indians. According to the Betty Lou Madden book there were 80 French-Canadian families in Cloud County in 1868. My distant relative left Bourbonnais in the mid-1860's and went to the Rulo, Nebraska (Richardson County) first. They stayed in the area until the mid 1870's when the grasshoppers wiped most of the farmers out. From there they moved on the Cloud County. The Genweb site for Cloud County has a couple of history books online. richard graveline Georgia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [ILSTANNE] pioneer list > You wrote: > > I am wondering if anyone on the list might know if there are any > documents, > > newspaper articles or lists of the folks that joined the wagon trains to > > Kansas and other western destinations. > > The migration from Kankakee to Clyde County Kansas oocured 1860-1880. There > were Boudreau, Michel, Arseneau just to name a few.