In 1835, Theophile Bruigher, a native of Canada, of French descent, at the age of twenty years, went to St. Louis, where he had an uncle who was a member of the American Fur Company. Bruigher engaged in the service of the company, but remained only a short time in their employ, when he joined the Yankton Sioux Indians. He married a daughter of the distinguished chief Hu-yom-e-ka (War Eagle), became quite a prominent man in the tribe, and acquired great influence among them. After remaining with the Indians a number of years, he concluded to change his mode of life, and notified the tribe of his intentions. In his wanderings his eye had caught sight of a beautiful location at the mouth of the Big Sioux River, about two miles above where Sioux City is now situated. This place he determined should become his future home. Accordingly, in May, 1849, with his faithful Indian wife and children, he left the post of the American Fur Company and descended the Missouri to the mouth of the Big Sioux, where he settled on the spot which had attracted his attention in the earlier days of his adventures. A few years after his wife died, and a second daughter of War Eagle became his wife. She also shortly after died. War Eagle, the father of Bruigher's wives, died at the latter's home in the fall of 1851, at the age of sixty-five years. His remains, with those of his two daughter, now repose on the summit of a lofty bluff on the Iowa side of the Big Sioux River, just above its junction with the Missouri. From this romantic elevation may be seen for many miles the broard, winding Missouri, with its grand