I have carefully examined the statements of historical facts of a general nature in this volume; and, some changes having been made at my suggestion, I believe that they are substantially correct according to the best available data and authority. The painstaking industry of the author in collecting and compiling the local data of the history and the scope and form of his work are, in my opinion, highly commendable. 

ALBERT WATKINS,
Historian of the Nebraska State Historical Society
 At Lincoln NEB., November 2, 1909.