1871 AND 1872

1871 - 1872
 - H.C. Wheeler describes his farm
 - Trip to Boyer River Valley
 - Trip to "Wall Lake"
    (now Blackhawk Lake)

1876

August 1876
  - Grasshoppers coming, 100 miles away
  - School picnic at Corey's Grove on the Boyer
 - Jail finished in Sac
 - Henry Hanson reports from Wheeler
 - Grasshoppers arrive

September 1876
- Grasshoppers!
 - Surveying for the new RR
 - Boyer Valley Twp. divided; New Twp. is Cook
 - Recipes
 - Kiron, Sac County meet about grasshopper problem

October 1876
 - Robbers! James Brothers?
 - Law against setting prairie fires
 - The new railroad route
 - James Brothers captured

November 1876
 - Sac City jealous of railroad?
 - Judge Early's new house
 - Henry Wait fire- $2500 loss 

December 1876
 - Grasshopper cures
 - More on the railroad
 - Buy land!
 - Marble mantles at Judge Early's
 - DIPHTHERIA - children dying in western Sac County
 - Recipe for Mince Pie

1877

January 1877
 - Railroad worker accident
 - A Clever Swindle
 - Judge Early's $10,000 house
 - Mercer.--the new post-office on route from Sac City to Arcadia, in Viola township

February 1877
 - Bridge over Boyer completed
 - More on the railroad

March 1877
 - Examination for Teachers at Gorham school house, in Wheeler Twp.
 - Mr. Roddy killed
 - Reinhart, Davenport, Buehler houses
 - New Wall Lake Post Office on north shore of lake
 - News of schools

June and July 1877
 - New settlers in Clinton Twp
 - A Trip through Sac County
 - A Trip through Western Sac

The above trips tell about many early farms and farmers along the route the writer took through Sac County.