It is interesting to note that thirty-four of these came from the two States on the east- ern border, leaving eight to enter from the four States on the three other sides of Iowa.

The numbers entering by way of each border State were: from Illinois, twenty-six; Wisconsin, eight ; Minnesota, three ; Nebraska, two ; South Dakota, none; and Missouri, three.

The large numbers coming from Illinois and Wisconsin are accounted for by the fact that those States were situated directly in the path- way of the incoming pioneers.

Bearing in mind the fact that so much early travel was by way of the Missouri River, the one surprising result in the comparisons just made is that so few settlers, relatively speaking, came to Wood- bury County from Missouri.

Possibly the pioneers coming from Missouri desiring, like Daniel Boone, to be ever on the frontier, had moved on to newer regions before the data for this paper were gathered.