True I had never heard of Cooke at that time, but there are thousands who for the first time have beheld the pine ridges of Nebraska, have heard their hearts say to them the same words. We who have lived here long have grown familiar, and day after day in the plodding toil of men we notice them not. Yet occasionally we will straighten our shoulders and look out across the hill or plain, and the spirit of the Infinite sweeps over us as we wonder why people let the little things of ordinary life annoy them. The Architect of all had beautiful plans when He made Sioux county.

KIMBALL COUNTY

THE HISTORY OF KIMBALL COUNTY

Kimball county is located in the extreme western part of the state of Nebraska ; in fact it is one of the two southwestern corner counties in the state. A glance at the map will explain readily how both Kimball and Dundy counties can be the corner southwestern county, one farther south and the other farther west. The county of Kimball adjoins the state of Wyoming on the west and Colorado on the south, and is the southwestern corner countv of the Western Nestate government until 1888, when its division from Cheyenne county was effected. But before that time settlers had entered the western corner of great Cheyenne county and started Antelopeville (now Kimball) and Bushnell.

The population of the county consists mainly of native-born Americans who have immigrated from the eastern part of Nebraska and from Iowa and Illinois. There is a small percentage of Swedes and Danes and