GDG- First Iowa caucus?

[Dennis Lawrence]

Friday, August 12, 1859.
Council Bluffs, IA.


Lincoln and Hatch reach Council Bluffs and stop at Pacific House. They go 
sightseeing with N. S. Bates and W. H. M. Pusey, formerly of Springfield. 
At Cemetery Hill north of town they view countryside north, south, and 
west. Lincoln, learning that Grenville M. Dodge, railway construction 
engineer, is registered at Pacific House, chats with him for two hours on 
hotel porch about western railroads. Lincoln accepts invitation to speak on 
"the great political issues of the day" following evening.


Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!  Down goes Frazier!