Buena Vista County Heritage and Trail History
Gordon Linge outlines Buena Vista County Iowa founded 1858 and named for Taylor's victory field. The piece traces settlement by Swedes Danes Norwegians Germans with pioneers, indigenous Mill Creek culture along the Little and Big Sioux Rivers, trenching through ancient trade routes and an 1937 excavated site in Brooke Township.
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Buena Vista County
Taylor
Iowa
Sioux Valley
Buena Vista
Mill Creek
North Central
United States
Little Sioux
Frank van Voorhis
Brooke Township
Pilot History Traces Storm Lake News Legacy
The Storm Lake Pilot began in 1870 under Col. W.L. Vestal and S.W. Young, a Republican weekly pioneering local journalism. It merged with the Storm Lake Tribune in 1896, evolving through owners like Walpole, Mitchell, and Jarnagin families, before shifting to Storm Lake Register lineage led by C Everett Lee and later E L C White of Spencer, shaping era journalism in northwest Iowa.
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Storm Lake Pilot
Pilot
Little Village
Storm Lake Newspapers
Col. W.L. Vestal
S.W. Young
L.J
Iowa
Col. Vestal
E.H. Sutphin
Vestal
Sutphin
A.C. Newton
A.C. Smith
Storm Lake
Phil G. Jarnagin
Pilot-Tribune
Sheldon Sun
E. L. C. White
Spencer
Bernard R. Seagren
Jean Anne Jarnagin Seagren
Storm Lake Register
C. Everett Lee
Brown
A.A. Smith
F.A. Moore
Smith
Moore
Elizabeth Sohm
Sumner E. Barnard
Register Printing Company
E.L.C. White
White
Register
Erie Street
The
Fritcher
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Ray
Dickson
Lake Traverse
Minnesota
St. Louis
McKnights
Pittsburg Landing
B.V
Vista Drive
P.G. Jarnagin
Bill Jarnagin
Des Moines
Roy Jarnagin
Register Is Born