maintained such good relations with the three Indian
tribes living adjacent to them, we might have suspected
the Mormon pioneers of being a little frivolous.

     I know of no more fitting tribute to those hardy
 pioneers who opened southwest Iowa and eastern Nebraska
to settlement than the words penned in February 1846 by
Brigham Young as he looked back at Nauvoo, Illinois,
 before heading west toward the future Winter Quarters:
He wrote: "Our homes, gardens, orchards, farms, streets,
 bridges, mills, public halls, magnificent temple and public improvements we leave as a monument to our
 patriotism, industry, economy and uprightness of purpose
and integrity of heart."