Below is part of chapter 23. The whole chapter is on the Iowa History Site. STORIES OF IOWA FOR BOYS AND GIRLs Chapter XXIII BY BOAT AND COVERED WAGON Before June 1, 1833, few white settlers lived in Iowa - perhaps not more than forty or fifty. Nearly all of them were located in two settlements along the Mississippi River in what is now Lee County. One settlement was called Ahwipetuk which meant "at the head of the rapids." Later it was called Nashville, and still later Galland. The other settlement was known as Puckeshetuk, but later its name was changed to Keokuk. Both of these settlements were in the region known as the Half-Breed Tract. At a much earlier date, you remember, Julien Dubuque, Basil Giard, and Louis Honore Tesson had built homes in the Iowa country. Fur traders, too, such as Maurice Blondeau and Jean Baptiste Fairbault had lived in Iowa for a time. In 1820 Dr. Samuel C. Muir crossed into Iowa with his Indian wife and family, and built a cabin at the present site of Keokuk, and in 1829 Dr. Isaac Galland built a home at Ahwipetuk, where others soon joined him. At about the same time Moses Stillwell and Otis Reynolds erected cabins at Puckesheuk. The half-breeds allowed these settlers to stay, but the Indians in the rest of Iowa did not want white men on their land. After the death of Dubuque in 1810 the Fox Indians would not allow any other white man to work the mines. In 1829 they permitted James Langworthy, a miner from Galena, Illinois, to explore between the Turkey and the Maquoketa Rivers; but when he asked to be allowed to dig for lead, they refused. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/) IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: _http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/_ (http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/)