still entitled to a reserve of land on which the old missionhouse and graveyard were located in New Council Bluffs. All I could learn on the subject is: Several years after the last missionary among the Potawatomies left that location he was applied to by the Catholic bishop of Dubuque, and ceded to him all the right to the mission claim. How the bishop has acted upon this cession in his favor I have never been informed. I would feel obliged to you to obtain further information on this subject.
To the best of my personal knowledge, and assisted by Captain Joseph La Barge, the old explorer of the Missouri river, I will here answer your various queries: First, " Where was old Fort Calhoun located? " Fort Calhoun was never located; it took the name of Fort Atkinson, which was built on the very spot where the council was held by Lewis and Clark, and was the highest and first military post above the mouth of Nebraska [Platte] river. Second,
" Where was old Fort Croghan? " After the evacuation of Fort Atkinson or Calhoun, either in 1827 or 1828, or thereabouts, the troops came down and made winter quarters on Cow island - Captain La Barge states it was called Camp
Croghan. The next.spring the flood disturbed the soldiers and they came down and established Fort Leavenworth. Colonel Leavenworth was commandant at the breaking up of Fort Atkinson. Third, " There is an earthen remain of fortifications on the east bank of Omaha; do you know
who built it? " The remains alluded to must be the site of the old trading post of Mr. Heart. When it was in existence the Missouri river ran up to the trading post. In 1832 the river left it, and since that time it goes by the name of " Heart's Cut-Off," leaving a large lake above
Council Bluffs city. Fourth, " Do you know of either soldiers or Indians ever having resided on the Omaha plateau?"
I do not know. A noted trader by the name of T. B. Roye bad a trading post from 1825 till 1828, established on the Omaha plateau, and may be the first white man who built the first cabin on the beautiful plateau where now stands