| Summary: | 28 Wells County History The low hills in Hillsdale township are a continuation of the Bois Blanc or Whitewood Hills. The hills near Heron Lake in Forward township were early called the Scotch or Whitby Hills. Butte de Morale Butte de Morale is situated in Wells township on the NE% section 10, but extends over onto the SE*/4 section 3, the SW^i section 2 and the NW'(4 section 11. It was named after Morale, a French-Chippewa half-breed who was killed there by the Sioux Indians about 1840. It was in the heart of the great buffalo country and is a relic of the "Bunch Grass Acres" as the old time bunch or buffalo grass is still found growing there. Butte de Morale is seven miles northeast of Harvey and south of Selz. It was a very prominent land mark and was known to the Hudson Bay Company's hunters, the Red River Buffalo Hunters and the hunters and trappers from the Missouri River. Governor Stevens' Expedition passed by it on the south in July 1853; Captain James L. Risk's wagon train of gold seekers passed to the north of it in July 1862, and again in 1863; and Gen. A. 11. Sully's army of Indian fighters marched to the east of it in 1865. It is a flat topped hill rising some three hundred feet above the level prairie and affords an excellent view for several miles in all directions. Lake Stevens (Goose Lake), a narrow canal-shaped lake some four and one-half miles long extends to the west of this butte. Black Hammer Hill Black Hammer Hill is a large flat topped hill rising above the level prairie some two hundred feet. It is situated on Section 5 in Valhalla township and is straight north of Bremen. It was named Black Hammer by the early settlers who pioneered there all of whom came from the rural post office of Black Hammer, in Black Hammer township, north of Spring Grove, Houston county, Minnesota. Butte Cuvier Grover Butte Cuvier Grover is situated on section 13 in Crystal Lake township and is midway between Harvey and Hurdsfield and Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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