15/ as launching pads for settlements and new communi-
ties in Nebraska after the Oto, Missouri and Omaha
 Indians sold their lands to the United States in 1854.

      In sharp contrast to the bitter border raids between
Missouri and Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa communities got
along very well, thanks in part to the pattern of
quiet civic efficiency established in the early Mormon communities. The harshest words between Nebraska and
 Iowa back in those good old days, as far as I can tell,
were uttered in Bellevue after the Nebraska Territorial
Legislators voted to have the new territorial capitol