1849-60 Gold Rushes, lured here by ^{Frontier Guardian Newspaper} 
William Clayton's 1848 printing in St. Louis
of "Latter Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide"
with precise mileage, latitude, longitude &
altitude for all points of interest, water,
grass & fords along Mormon Trail to Salt
 Lake Valley, came through Kanesville
 by the tens of thousands, jamming up
Missouri river ferry crossings as much as
6 weeks delay to cross; Lone Tree Ferry (38)
about where Omaha-Council Bluffs central
 bridge is today was charted in 1850 at
 Kanesville by Gold Rusher Wm. Brown turned
entrepreneur.