HISTORY

• A Glimpse of Iowa, 1846
• Names of Early Settlers to Palo Alto County
• Names of Pioneers Who Petitioned for Protection from the Indians - 1862
• Iowa's Worst Blizzard - 1864
• More Settlers by township 1869-1871
• Pioneer Life In Palo Alto County
• History of Palo Alto County by J.L. Martin as prepared for the Celebration at Emmetsburg, July 4, 1876.
• Orphan Train Information - 1880
• History of Palo Alto County from 1895 Democrat Souvenir
• Palo Alto County by Co. T.W. Harrison as it appeared in Emmetsburg Democrat, Wednesday, July 11, 1906
• 1906-Pioneers in County More Than Forty Years
• Semi-Centennial Celebration - 1906
• The First Irish Settlement in Palo Alto County, Iowa as Remembered by J.J. Mahan, 1927
• 1929-Pioneers in County More than Fifty Years
• Old Settlers Picnic - 1931
• An Immigrant's View of Early Iowa
• Excerpts from "A Prairie Boyhood" by Bruce Bliven
• How Emmetsburg Got it's Name-Robert Emmet Statues
• Another Item on Robert Emmet Statues
• History of Palo Alto Co by D.D. McCarty 1910
• 1912 Huebinger's Automobile & Good Road Atlas - Emmetsburg
• Palo Alto County Courthouse

OTHER RESOURCES

• Iowa History Project



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