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116 Vermilion rivers many farmers settled, who had no more ambitious plans than to build for themselves and their families permanent farm homes, and most of them with their children still occupy the homesteads they took upon that day, or sleep peacefully in the little churchyards near by.

So it was that a settlement in opposition to that upon the Sioux River was planted in the Missouri valley, so different in every way that there were scarcely any lines of likeness between them. The one was moved by dreams of power and wealth, without labor, the other sought only homes where a livelihood might be secured by honest toil. It is hardly necessary to say that while the former sadly failed, the latter, overcoming every obstacle, became the permanent and prosperous motherland of the future state.