The Dvorseks had a place a short distance down the river from Fanning's and he had some heavy draft horses. A team of these and a rope reaching to the shore were secured ; Kamaan broke the ice which had frozen thinly across the space, and waded out to the wagon in the icy cold water. The team pulled the wagon out, and he proceeded upon his way. Experiences similar or otherwise, sometimes amusing, and sometimes tragic, were the lot of the pioneer in Scotts Bluff county.

Captain Akers's Story Through the skein of early events in the North Platte valley, and in the county of Scotts Bluff, the name of Akers runs. The editor first met the captain about thirty years ago, and through the years, we had many ideas in common. There have been so many characters in the "Iliad of Hardships of the Pioneer," that run along certain struggles and needs, that I have chosen for one the story of Captain Akers, as told to me, some years before he went to the "Farther Frontier." It tells the steps by which several generations have moved on and on from land to land, like the generations of men have moved since our courageous forefathers landed on New England's coast.

One of the things that drive people into the west, that makes them pioneers, is to get away from the conventions and requirements of older civilization. When the money-changers bring on their periodical panics, the men in the older