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1.
Bird's eye view of the city of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa 1868

Creator:
Ruger, A., artist
Published / Created:
[1868]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc29 868ru
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
cartographic image
Abstract:
Print shows Council Bluffs, Iowa, in a bird's eye view, looking from the east bank of Mosquito Creek, across the tracks of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad toward Lincoln Hill in the northwest
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Merchants Lithographing Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Council Bluffs (Iowa) and Mosquito Creek (Iowa)
Subject (Name):
Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company (1866-1880)
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bird's eye view of the city of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa 1868

2.
Council Bluffs

Creator:
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Published / Created:
[1887]
Call Number:
Zc10 +887un
Collection Title:
Union Pacific sketch book: a brief description of prominent places of interest along the line of
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
The new bridge connecting Council Bluffs and Omaha
Subject (Geographic):
Council Bluffs (Iowa), Omaha (Neb.), and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Railroad bridges--Iowa and Railroads
Collection Created:
Omaha, Neb., D.C. Dunbar & Co., 1887
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Council Bluffs

3.
Photographs of Pawnee Indian Scouts and of Council Bluffs, Iowa [graphic].

Creator:
Eaton, E. L. (Edric L.), b. ca. 1836
Published / Created:
ca. 1866.
Call Number:
WA Photos 153
Image Count:
10
Abstract:
Photographs of Pawnee Indians identified as Major Frank North's Pawnee scouts, including portraits of Big Doctor, a Pawnee Medicine Man of the Skidi Band, Pawnee and Blue Hawk, Pawnee warriors of the Chau-i Band of Pawnees, and Yellow Sun, head chief ...
Description:
Major Frank North commanded Pawnee Indian scouts in several western campaigns during the 1860s and 1870s, and later performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Publisher:
Eaton
Subject (Geographic):
Council Bluffs (Iowa)
Subject (Name):
North, Frank J. 1840-1885. (Frank Joshua),
Subject (Topic):
Military scouts, Indians of North America, and Pawnee Indians
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs of Pawnee Indian Scouts and of Council Bluffs, Iowa [graphic].

4.
[Oregon trail]

Creator:
Allen, Edward Jay, 1830-1915
Published / Created:
[1852-58]
Call Number:
Zc78 +852aL
Image Count:
44
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Mounted clippings from the Pittsburgh Daily Dispatch and one short report each from two other small newspapers describing an overland journey beginning in 1852 and life in Washington Territory, through Allen's return to New Orleans in March of 1855. A...
Alternative Title:
Eddie’s letters
Description:
Cover title: Eddie’s letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.), Chimney Rock (Neb.), Council Bluffs (Iowa), Fort Boise (Idaho), Fort Hall (Idaho), Fort Laramie (Wyo.), Fort Walla Walla (Wash.), Fort Washita (Okla.), Great Plains, Idaho, Independence Rock (Wyo.), Iowa, Nebraska, New Orleans (La.) --1850-1860, Nisqually River Valley (Wash.), Oklahoma, Olympia (Wash.), Oregon, Oregon City (Or.), Platte County (Wyo.), Portland (Or.), Puget Sound (Wash.), Rocky Mountains, Scotts Bluff County (Neb.), United States --Territorial expansion, Washington (State), White River Valley (Wash.), and Wyoming
Subject (Name):
Cayuse Indians, Foster, J. Heron, Nez Perce Indians, Oregon National Historic Trail, Pawnee Indians, and Shoshoni Indians
Subject (Topic):
Ferries, Frontier and pioneer life, Horse trading, Indians of North America --1840-1860, Natural resources, Overland journeys to the Pacific, and Wagon trains
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Oregon trail]