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JOHNSON, SMITH & HARRISON,

MINNEAPOLIS.

PREFACE.

The Committee on Publication are gratified in being able to send out another volume of Collections, one which they trust will be received with the same generous favor that the other publications of the Society have been accorded.

It is now ten years since the first part of the present volume,(pages 1—138) was issued. We had expected at that time to have sent out parts II and III more promptly, but circumstances which we could not control, such as want of means, etc., prevented the more prompt issue of the remaining portion of the volume. (Part II was issued in 1874). But it must not be supposed that these ten years was a period of inactivity on our part. During that time, in addition to completing the present volume, the Society published two other large volumes, viz : a republication of the parts composing Vol. I. of our Collections, a work of 519 pages, issued in 1872; and also, our Vol. IV., which is altogether devoted to the "History of Saint Paul, and County of Ramsey" — a large and finely illustrated volume, of 475 pages, published in 1876. Thus the Society has, within ten years, published three large volumes on the history of this State, — certainly an activity in this department of work, which we believe has been surpassed by but few societies in our country.

The designs of these "Collections" is to gather up all the historical facts regarding Minnesota, or its people, that we are able, from such writers as will contribute them, and by publishing the same, at once pre- serve and disseminate the information contained therein. As in our Vol's. I and II., the present volume is made up of papers and addresses on various subjects connected with our histoiy, memoirs of pioneers of the State, and of its public men, and reminiscences of the old settlers of the same, still living. A miscellany of this kind seems to have been received with much favor in our former volumes, and we believe that Vol. Ill will be found quite as interesting and valuable, in that line, as either. In contents so varied, all can find something to interest them, or suit their taste, and the volumes form a sort of store-house of materials for history, where other writers can get information and facts to aid them. Most of the sketches have been contributed by writers of fine ability and high reputation as authors. It might be here noted by the commits ee, that all statements of i act made by the writers, are given over their own name and on their own authority, and the Society should not be held responsi- ble for them.

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It will be observed that a considerable portion of this volume relates to the Indian nations which once occupied all of our State, and to incidents of the " Indian period " of our history. The importance of securing all that we can, regarding this rapidly disappearing race, will be recognized. In a few years they will be so nearly extinct, or so changed in customs and religion, that the primitive Indian, as found by the early settlers of Minnesota, will be only a matter of history. We cannot too diligently collect and record all valuable and interesting facts regarding them, from those who can supply them. Succeeding generations will read of that people, and indeed most persons do now, with absorbing interest. The Indian period of our northwestern histoi-y will be the most romantic and thrilling chapter in the records of its discovery and settlement, and the history of the Red Race is so interwoven with that of our State, that it cannot be omitted, and therefore devolves on us the duty of chroniclmg whatever we can, regarding them.

Another considerable portion of the i)resent volume is given to memoirs and obituary sketches of the pioneers of the State, and others, who have been prominently connected with its public affairs. The design was to properly record the part borne by the men who had in early days, helped to mould the *' plastic elements of empire " in our commonwealth, or who had taken a leading part in public life more recently, and to do just honor to their memoirs. The value of biography as a study, is becoming more and more recognized, as*all will observe who read much of the current literature of the day, and the committee hoped to have more of this class of contributions. In fact, several additional ones had been promised, but were not received m time. Only two or three complete, formally pre- pared memoirs, are given in this volume. The rest are collections, or groups of sketches, by different persons. It appeared to the committee that this form would be found valuable, as containing the estimates of the deceased, from his different associates, and thus giving a many-sided view of the subject, from different stand points.

Nor should it be supposed that any arbitrary rule governed the com- mittee in the inclusion of the memoirs printed, or the exclusion of others not given. We have published all that we have been able to secure. It is our design to give in these collections, a well written memoir of every deceased prominent pioneer, or public man in our State, from the begin- ning of our history, down. And we urge our members and correspondents who may have the material and opportunity, to enable them to do so, to prepare full and complete memoirs of any deceased Minnesotian, in whose memory they may feel an interest, as soon as possible after his death, and forward the same to us. They will be printed as fast as possible in these Collections, and should any delay occur, the manuscript will be carefully preserved in our archives.

Materials for the biographies of the earlier settlers of our State, ought to be secured from the subjects themselyes. These pioneers are rapidly passing away, and promptness and diligence is necessary to secure their

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reminiscences of our early history. Much of that early history is as yet unrecorded, and exists only in the memory of these aged men, and must perish at their death. To collect and record these facts, is one of the most important object§ of our Society, and we cannot admonish our members and coiTespondents to too much diligence in that field.

We had hoped to be able to illustrate this volume with portraits of sev- eral of the subjects of the memoirs contained therein, but were able to secure, in season to include in it, only one such engraving, that ol Rev. John Mattocks, kindly furnished by his son, John Mattocks, Esq., of Chicago, which is appropriately placed as a frontispiece of the volume. Diligent efforts will be made to secure for our succeeding volumes, en- gravings of all our pioneers and men prominently identified with our State history, which can be obtained.

In closing, we may justly be pardoned a word regarding the Society itself. It is now thirty years since it was organized, though it is only dur- ing the last half of that period that we have had means or opportunity to properly carry on our work. The Society now has commodious apart- ments, a fair income, and has accumulated a valuable and choice library of 9,000 bound and 12.000 unbound volumes, of which 700 are Minnesota newspapers; 400 maps, several hundred curiosities, pictures, manuscripts, etc., the whole valued at $50,000, though it could not be replaced for much more than that sum. This collection, to a large extent, has been the gift of our friends; and in the hope that we are meriting by our dilitrencp, and good management of the trust, those generous favors, we send out these "Collections." COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION.

St. Paul, July, 1880.

QRGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY.

President— HON. H. H. SIBLEY.

Vice-Presidents— 1, Hon. A. RAMSEY. 2. Capi.^I. BLAKELEY.

Secretary and Librarian— J. FLETCHER WILLIAMS.

Treasurer— HENRY P. UPHAM.

Members of Executive Council.

Ex Officio.

His Excellency, John S. Pillsbury, Governor.

Hon. Charles A. Gilman, Lientenant Governor.

Hon. Frederick Von Baumbach, Secretary of State,

Hon. Orlen P. Whitcomb, Auditor of State.

Hon. Charles Kittelson, Treasurer of State.

Hon. Charles M. Start, Attorney-General. Elective. Gen. C. C. Andrews, St. Paul, Gen. R. W. Johnson, St. Paul,

Gen. James H. Baker, Manlsato, Hon. N. W. Kittson, St. Paul, Hon. Jared Benson, Anoka. Hon. John D. Ludden, St. Paul,

Hon. John M. Berry, Minneapolis, Hon. Wm. R. Marshall, St. Paul, Capt. Russell Blakeley, Si. Paul, Charles E. Mayo, Esq., St. Paul, J. B. Chaney, Esq., St. Paul, Rev. E. D. Neill, Minneapolis,

Hon. W. P. Clough, St. Paul, Hon. Alex. Ramsey, St. Paul,

Hon. Gordon E. Cole, Faribault, Gen. John B. Sanborn, St. Paul, Hon. F. R. Delano, St. Paul, Gen. H. H. Sibley, St. Paul,

Hon. E. F. Drake, St. Paul, Hon. John H. Stevens, Minneapolis,

Hon. Lewis H. Garrard, Lake City, R. 0. Sweeney, Esq,, St. Paul, Col. Earle S. Goodrich, St. Paul, Henry P. Upham, Esq., St. Paul, Geo. A. Hamilton, Esq., St. Paul, J. Fletcher Williams, St. Paul, James J. Hill, Esq., St. Paul, Hon. H. B. Wilson, Red Wing,

Rt. Rev. John Ireland, St. Paul, Hon. Thomas Wilson, Winona.

Standing Committees.

Organization — E. F. Drake, John M. Berry and Thomas Wilson. Permanent Building — R, Blakeley, J. B. Chaney and Jared Benson. Finance — H. P. Upham, J. D. Ludden and R, W. Johnson. Library — G. A. Hamilton, H. P. Upham, and J. F. Williams. Puhlication — E. S. Goodrich, John Ireland and E. D. Neill. Property — Alex. Ramsey, J. H. Baker and Charles E. Mayo. Obituaries— W . R. Marshall, C. C. Andrews and H. B. Wilson. Lectures— W. P. Clough, G. E. Cole and J. B. Sanborn. Endowment Fund — John Ireland, Jas. J. Hill and Jno. H. Stevens. freneral Business — R. 0. Sweeney, F. R. Delano and L. H. Garrard.

CONTENTS-

Page. Prefax^e ijj_y

Officers of the Society y ^

Contents vii-viii

•Relation op M . Penicault :

1 — Introductory note; by Rev. E. D. Neill 1-4

2— Translation of the manuscript; by A. J. Hill 4-12

Bibliography of Minnesota; by J. F. Williams 13-75

A Reminiscence of Fort Snelling; by Mrs. Charlotte 0. Van Cleve 76-81 Narrative of Paul Mazakootamane; translated by Rev. S. R.

l^iggrs 82-90

Memoir of ex-Gov. Henry A. Swift; by J. F. Williams 91-98

Sketch of John Other Day; by Gen H. H. Sibley 99-102

A Coincidence; by Mrs. Charlotte 0. Van Cleve 103-107

Memoir of Hon. James W. Lynd; by Rev. S. R. Riggs 107-114

The Dakota Mission; by Rev. S. R. Riggs 115-128

Indian Warfare in Minnesota; by Rev. S. W. Pond 129-138

Fort Snelling; Col. Levenwokth's Expedition in 1819. .

1— Note; by the Committee on Publication 139-140

• 2— Journal of May Thomas Forsyth 140-167

Memoii' of Jean Baptiste Faribault; by Gen. H. H. Sibley 168-179

Memoir of Capt. Martin Scott; by J. F. Williams 180-187

Napehshneedoota, a Dakota Christian; by Rev. T. S. Williamson 188-191

Memoir of Hercules L. Dousman; by Gen. H. H. Sibley 192-200

Memoir of Joseph R. Brown

1 — Paper read before the Minnesota Editorial Association ;

by J. F. Williams '. 201-204

2— Sketch in the St. Paul Pioneer; by Earie S. Goodrich. ... 204 208

3— Editorial in the St. Paul Press; by J. A. Wheelock 208-212

Memoii- of Hon. Cyrus Aidrich; by J. F. Williams , 213-221

Memoir of Rev. Lucian Caltier; by Rt. Rev. John Ireland, D. D. 222-230

Memoir of Hon. David Olmstead; by J. F. Williams 231-241

Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota

1— Paper; by Hon. H. H. Sibley 242-277

2— Note; by the Committee on Publication 277-288

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Page. The Sioux or Dakotas, of the Missouri River; by Rev. Thomas S.

Williamson 283-294

Memoir o'f Rev. S. Y. McMasters, D. D; by Earle S. Goodrich. . 295-303

Tributes to the Memory op. Rev. John Mattocks

1— Obituaiy sketch in St. Paul Dispatch; by J. F, Williams 304-307 2 — Remarks at a meeting of the Society; by Hon. H. H.

Sibley 307-310

3 — Remarks at a meeting of the Society; by Gen. John B.

Sanborn 310-312

4 — Letter to John Mattocks, Esq., of Chicago; by Rt. Rev.

John Ireland, D. D 312-313

Life and Public Services of Hon. Willis A. Gorman. .

1 — Obituai-y notices compiled from various journals 314-827

2 — Eulogy pronounced before the Ramsey Co. Bar Associ- ation; by ex-Gov. C. K. Davis 328-332

Lake Superior; by Hon. James H. Baker 338-355

Memorial Notices op Rev. Gideon H. Pond

1— Note; by the Committee on Publication 356-357

2— Sketch; by Rev. S. R. Riggs, D. D 358-364

3— Tribute; by Gen. H. H. Sibley 364-366

4— Memoir; by Rev. T. S. Williamson 367-371

In Memory op Rev. Thomas S. Williamson, M. D

1— Sketch; by Rev. S. R. Riggs, D. D 372-373

2— Memoir; by his son, A. W. Williamson 384-385

The Inkpaduta Massacre of 1857; by Hon. Chas. E. Flandrau. . . . 386-407 Index lo vol. 3. . - 408

RELATION OF M. PENICAUT.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

BY REV. EDWARD D. NEILL.

A ftiend of the navigator Humphrey Gilbert, a man of sanguine expectations, three centuries ago, remarlced that he hoped to live to see the day when a letter mailed in London on the first of Maj', would reach China by midsummer, and that the Indians had asserted that a short and speedy route would be found between the 43d and 46th degrees of north latitude.!

The coming event cast its shadow before, and year after year, ex- plorers, propelled in frail canoes by hardy voyageurs, pushed up the rivers that ran into the Atlantic, and at last reached the shores of the great Mediterranean sea of North America, Lake Superior.

It is appropriate that the Minnesota Historical Society should gather every document that will throw light on the slow but sure pro- gress of discovery west of Lake Superior toward the Pacific coast. Too little notice has been given to the Frenchmen, who in 1659 visi- ted the Sioux of Mille Lacs. The name ofoneof whom, Grosellier, was retained for many years on the maps as the desigiiation of a stream that flows into Lake Superior, and is a part of the northern boundary of Minnesota.2 Learning the inland route to Hudson's Bay, Grosellier and his companion Redisson returned to Quebec in the summer of 1660, and urged upon the French to open trade with the center • of the continent, but the offer not being embraced, they ten- dered their services to the English, and piloted a New England' Captain named Gillam to the River Nemiscan, where Fort Rupert was built.

1. Col. State Papers. East India. London 1862, p. 86.

2. On a map of Canada by Jefferys, published in 1762, a part of which is found at page 300, History of Minnesota, Pigeon River is marked Nalouagan, or Qrosiller River.

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On the first of September, 1678, Daniel Greysolon DuLuth left Quebec to continue discovery in the region west of Lake Superior, and in 1680, met an expedition ascending the Mississippi, consisting of SiEUR Dacan and four Frenchmen, besides Hennepin, a Franciscan priest, that had been dispatched by LaSalle.i

When DuLuTH left Minnesota, and returned to Quebec, by way of the Wisconsin River, a Sioux chief drew on birch bark a map of the Mississippi. Bellin says the earliest map of the region west of Lake Superior, in the Depot de la Marine, was drawn by Otchaga, an Indian.

Perrot, " habitant du Canada," who had been, in childhood, edu- cated by the Jesuit missionaries, next appears as an explorer, building Fort St. Nicholas a,t the mouth of the Wisconsin, and another on the west side of the Mississippi just below Lake Pepin.

In 1687 the first map of the region west and north of Lake Supe- rior, was drawn by Franquelin, an experienced topographer, sent out for the purpose,^ and in 1688 a map prepared at Paris by Tillemon was issued, and upon it appears Lake Buade (Mille Lacs,) Magdeline (St. Croix River) and Prophet (Snake River.)^

LeSueur, who had come into the country in 1683, with Perrot, built a fort in 1695 above Lake Pepin, on Isle Pelee, a few miles from the mouth of the St. Croix River.

After visiting France, he accompanied Bienville, with the colony for the settlement of Louisiana, and in 1700 ascended the Mississippi, arriving at the mouth of the Minnesota on the 19th of September, and following the course of the stream reached the Blue Earth river, and on the 14th of October had completed a stockade on a small creek called St. Remi, in 44 deg. 13 min. north latitude.

Among those who accompanied him was a shipwright named Penicaud, a man of discernment, but little scholarship. Returning from the valley of the Minnesota, he passed many years among the tribes of the lower Mississippi. In 1721, leaving a wife in Louisiana, he visited France to receive medical attention for diseased eyes, and while there his adventures among the Choctaws, Natchez and other tribes were written out. Charlevoix in his list of authorities used in writing the History of New France, mentions the manuscript and says that though the style is poor, it contained interesting information.

Early in 1869, the attention of Mr. Spofford, Librarian of Con- gress, was called to the fact that Maissoneuve & Co. of Paris, offered % a manuscript ** Relation of Penicaud" for sale, and during the summer he procured the same. It is a small quarto of 452 pages, divided into 23 chapters, with convenient sub-sections, and relates to the period

1. Relation de la Louisiana, Vol. 5, Recueil de Voyages au Nord.

2. Bellini's " Remarques sur la carte de la Amerique Septentrionale." 8. A copy of this Map is in the New York State Library.

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from 1698 to 1721. It appears to have been copied or written out by one Francis Bouet, and that part which pertains to Minnesota Is not as full or accurate as LeSueur's description of the same region in La Harpe's Louisiana. Indeed, some of the statements are at variance with LeSueur, and appear to be based on Hennepin's de- scription.

Hennepin, in his " Louisiane," published in 1683 at Paris, speaking of the Saint Croix River, says it is called Tomb River, because the Issati deposited on its banks the remains of a warrior who had died from the poison of a snake. Penicaud states that it was called the Saint Croix because of a cross planted over the remains of a voyageur, while LeSueur, the leader of the expedition, asserts that the river was named Saint Croix because a Frenchman of that name was shipwrecked at its mouth.

Again. LeSueur, according to his journal, did not ascend above the mouth of the Minnesota, and does not mention the Falls of St. Anthony ; while Penicaud, who was of the same party, says he visi- ted them and found the " chute" sixty feet. Hennepin had stated that the fall was forty or fifty feet, divided by a pyramidical rock, in 1683 ; but if the manuscript is correct, in 1700 it was ten feet higher.

Charleville, a Canadian and kinsman of Governor Bienville, told DuPratz that he had visited the Falls with two Frenchmen and two Indians, and found the river flowing over a flat rock, and that the chute was only eight or ten feet, a more moderate and reliable state- ment. He also made a portage, and in a birch bark canoe ascended one hundred leagues beyond, and from information obtained from the Sioux, expressed the opinion that St. Anthony was about equi-distant from the sources and the mouth of the Mississippi. ^

But notwithstanding these seeming discrepancies, Penicaud is generally accurate. He states, for instance, that in leaving Minne- sota early in 1702, he met at the " Ouissconsin," Jusserat, a Lieu- tenant from Montreal, with a party on his way to the Ouabache, as the Ohio was called, to establish a tannery, and Charlevoix^ states that JucHEREAU opened an establishment at that locality.

After LeSueur and Penicaud left the country, explorations ceased for some years, but in September, 1727, LaPerriere du Bouchek landed on the shore of Lake Pepin, opposite Maiden's Rock, and erected Fort Beauharnois. The next year Veranderie began his discoveries, and in 1734 reached Lake Bourbon, now Winnipeg. His son accompanied him in his explorations.

In 1750, Legardeur de St. Pierre,^ who had been in command at Fort Beauharnois, was deputed to visit the region to the northwest opened up bv the Veranderies, and conclude treaties of peace and.

1. Le Page DuPratz. HJstoire de la Louisiane, Vol. 1, pp. 142-8.

2. Nouvelle France, Vol. 2, p. 266.

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commerce. The fort built by Veranderie on the Red River was afterwards abandoned because of its nearness to those on the chain of lakes between Winnipeg and Superior.^ Following the sugges- tions of the Frenchmen, Carver proposed to open a northern route to the Pacific through Minnesota, the valley of the Upper Mis- souri, over the slope of the Rocky Mountains, and then through the valley of a river which he called the Oregon. A century has elapsed since this Captain of Provincial troops, a native of Connecticut, was in Minnesota, and now the Northern Pacific Railway will soon follow the trail of the voyageur over the grazing grounds of the buff"alo, into the defiles of the mountains, and beyond, to Puget's Sound. Whatever the development of the future, the pioneers Grosellier, DuLuth, LeSueur, Penicaud, and the Veranderies should never be forgot- ten. Towns already bear the name of DuLuth and LeSueur, and how appropriate would Veranderie be for the railway crossing at Red River, or some place in that vicinity.

TRANSLATION OF THE MS.

BY A. J. HILL.

Leaving the fort of the Mississippi,^ M. de Bienville made us row night and day, and the day after met the vessels, where he consulted with M. de Surgeres upon the provisions remain- ing in them, and found that there was more than enough for three months. He then went to the fort at Biloxi to examine the goods and munitions of war in the magazines, and he in- creased the garrison by sixty Canadians, whom he added to the six hundred of us already there — he had brought them on his ship with M. le Sueur. After having embraced M. de Sauvolle and M. de Boisbriant, he left in the month of April of this year, 1700, on his second return to France. On his departure

1. In 1753, he was stationed in Erie Co., Pa., and held an interview with

young Washington. J. Bellin also speaks of an abandoned fort near the portage between the

St. Croix and Bois Brule' rivers. 3. A post just established by him and situated eight leagues below

English Bend.

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he recommended M. de Sauvolle to give M. le Sueur twenty men to go with him to a copper mine in the country of the Sioux, a nation of wandering savages living more than nine hundred leagues above the mouth of the Mississippi ; and to ascend the river to the Falls of St. Anthony. M. le Sueur had heard of this mine some years before whilst traveling in the country of the loways, where he traded. I was ordered by M. DE Sauvolle to go on this expedition which M. le Sueur was going to make, because of my being a carpenter by trade, in the service of His Majesty, and necessary to make and repair shallops. I have alwaj^s been with all the parties that I have spoken of, and shall speak of afterwards, and thus have been an eye witness. To return to M. le Sueur. After he had got together all the necessary provisions and tools and had taken leave of M. de Sauvolle, he set out in the month of April of this year with a single shallop, in which we were butj twenty- five persons. ****** * ******

Up to this time no one has discovered the source of the Mis- souri, any more than that of the Mississippi. * *

*******

Opposite the mouth of the Wisconsin there are four islands in the Mississippi^ and a very high mountain on the left, half a league long. One can go up this river to the portage of the Bay of. the Foxes, sixty leagues distant from the Mississippi. This bay^ comes within four leagues of Lake Michigan, and is the way that the French pass in going to Canada when they return from the Sioux. Above the mouth of the Wisconsin, and ten leagues higher up on the same side, begins a great prairie extending for sixty leagues along the bank of the Mis- sissippi on the right — this prairie is called Winged Prairie. The further ends of these prairies reach to the mountains, making a very fine prospect. Opposite to the Winged Prairie on the left there is another prairie facing It called Paquitanei, ^ which is not so long by a great deal. Twenty leagues above these prairies is found lake Good Help, which is seven leagues

1. Original. Cette baye s 'approche de quatre lieues du lac de Michigan. 2! The meaning of this word is not apparent. In Marquette's narrative the Missouri has a simUar name, Pekitanoui or Pekltanoni. H.

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long and one across, and through which the Mississippi passes. To the right and left of its shores there are also prairies. In that on the right, on the bank of the lake, there is a fort which was built by Nicholas Perrot, whose name it yet bears. At the end of the lake you come to Bald Island, so called because there are no trees on it.' It is on this island that the French from Canada established their fort and store house when they come to trade for furs and other merchandise, and they also winter here because game is very abundant in the prairies on both shores of the river. In the month of September they bring their store of meat there, procured by hunting, and after having skinned and cleaned it, place it upon a sort of raised scaffold near the cabin, in order that the extreme cold which lasts from the month of September to the end of March, may hinder it from corrupting during the winter, which is very severe in that country. During the whole winter they do not go out except for water, when they have to break the ice every day, and the cabin is generally built on the bank, so as not to have to go far. When spring arrives the savages come to the islaAd, bringing their merchandise, which consists of all kinds of furs, as beaver, otter, marten, lynx and many others — the bear skins are generally used to cover the canoes of the savages and Canadians. There are often savages who pillage the French Canadian traders, among others the savages of a village com- posed of the five different nations, and which have each their own name, that is the Sioux, the people of the big village, the Mententons, the Mencouacantons, the Ouyatespony^ and other Sioux of the plains.

Three leagues higher up, after leaving this island, you meet on the right the river St. Croix, where there is a cross set at its mouth. Ten leagues further you come to the Falls of St. Anthony, which can be heard two leagues off. It is the entire Mississippi falling suddenly from a height of sixty feet, making a noise like that of thunder rolling in the air. Here one has to carry the canoes and shallops, and raise them by hand to the upper level in order to continue the route by the river. This we did not do, but having for some time looked at this fall of the whole Mississippi, we returned two leagues below the Falls of St. Anthony to a river coming in on the left of the Missis-

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sippi, which is called the river St. Peter. We took our route by its mouth and ascended it forty leagues, where we found another river on the left falling into the St. Peter, which we entered. We called this Green River, because it is of that color by reason of a green earth which, loosening itself from the copper mines, becomes dissolved in it and makes it green. A league up this river we found a point of land a quarter of a league distant from the woods, and it was upon this point that M. LE Sueur resolved to build his fort, because we could not go any higher on account of the ice, it being the last day of September, when winter, which is very severe in that country, has already begun. Half of our people went hunting, whilst the others worked on the fort. We killed four hundred buffaloes, which were our provisions for the winter, and which we placed upon scaffolds in our fort, after having skinned and cleaned and then quartered them. We also made cabins in the fort, and a magazine to keep our goods. After having drawn up our shallop within the inclosure of the fort, we spent the winter in our cabins.

When we were working on our fort, in the beginning, seven French traders of Canada took refuge there. They had been pillaged and stripped naked by the Sioux, a wandering nation living only by hunting and rapine. Amongst these seven persons there was a Canadian gentleman of M. le Sueur's acquaintance, whom he recognized at once and gave him some clothes, as he did also to all the rest, and whatever else was necessary for them. They remained with us during the entire winter at our fort, where we had not food enough for all, except the flesh of our buffaloes, which we had not even salt to eat with. We had a good deal of trouble the first two weeks in getting used to it, having diarrhoea and fever, and being so tired of it that we hated the very smell. But little by little our bodies got adapted to it, so well that at the end of six weeks there was not one of us that could not eat six pounds of meat a day and drink four bowls of the broth. As soon as we were accustomed to this kind of living it made us very fat, and there was then no more sickness amongst us.

When spring arrived we went to work on the copper mine. This was in the beginning of April of this year, [1701.] We

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took with US twelve laborers and four hunters. This mine was situated about three quarters of a league from our post. We took from the mine in twenty-two days more than thirty thou- sand pounds weight of ore, of which we only selected four thousand pounds of the finest, which M. le Sueur, who was a very good judge of it, had carried to the fort, and which has since been sent to France, though I have not learned the result.

This mine is situated at the beginning of a very long mountain which is upon the bank of the river, so that boats can go right to the mouth of the mine itself. At this place is the green earth, which is a foot and a half in thickness, and above it is a layer of earth as firm and hard as stone, and black and burnt like coal by the exhalation from the mine. The copper is scratched out with a knife. There are no trees upon this mountain. If this^mine is good it will make a great trade, because the mountain contains more than ten leagues running of the same ground. It appears, according to our observations, that in the very finest weather there is continu- ally a fog upon this mountain.

After twenty-two days' work we returned to our fort, where the Sioux, who belong to the nation of savages who pillaged the Canadians that came there, brought us merchandises of furs. They had more than four hundred beaver robes, each robe being made of nine skins sewed together. M. le Sueur purchased these and many other skins which he bargained for in the week he traded with the savages. He made them all come and camp near the fort, which they consented to very unwillingly ; for this nation, which is very numerous, is always wandering, living only by hunting, and when they have stayed a few days in one place they have to go off more than ten leagues from it for game for their support. They have, however, a dwelling place, where they gather together the natural fruits of the country, which are very different from those of the lower Mississippi, as for instance cherries which are in clusters like our grapes of France, cranberries which are similar to our strawberries but larger and somewhat square in shape, nuts, chokeberries,^ roots^ which resemble our truffles.

The aUae. 2. Taupin amboura in the originaL

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&c. There are also more kinds of trees than on the lower part of the river, as the birch,^ maple, plane, and Cottonwood, which last is a tree that grows so thick that there are some that are fifteen feet round. As to the trees called maple and plane it is usual at the beginning of March to make notches in them, and then placing tubes in the notches cause the liquid to lun off into a vessel placed below to receive it. These trees will flow in abundance during three months, from the beginning of March to the end of May. The juice they yield is very sweet ; it is boiled till it turns to syrup, and if it is boiled still more it be- comes brown sugar.

The cold is still severer in these countries than it is in Canada. During the winter we passed in our fort we heard the trees exploding like musket shots, being cracked by the rigor of the cold. The ice is as thick as there is water in the river, and the snow is condensed in it. By the month of April all this snow and ice lies on the ground to the depth of five feet, which causes the overflowing of the Mississippi in the spring.

About the beginning of winter in this country, that is to say in the month of September, the bears climb trees that are hollow and hide themselves inside, where they remain from six to seven months without ever leaving, getting no other nour- ishment during the winter than by licking their paws. When they enter they are extremely lean, and when they go out they are so plump that they have half a foot of fat on them. It is almost always in the cottonwood or cypress that the bear hides himself, because these trees are generally hollow. In hunting them a tree is placed leaning against the tree where the bear is and reaching up to the hole by which he entered. The hunter climbs by this leaning tree to the other one, and throws into the hollow some pieces of dry wood all on fire, which obliges the animal to come out to save himself from being burned. When the bear leaves the hole of the tree he comes down backwards, as a man would do, and then they shoot him. This hunting is very dangerous, for though the animal may be wounded sometimes by three or four gun shots, he will still fall

1. The meritier, 2

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upon the first persons he meets, and with a single blow of his teeth and claws will tear you up in a moment. There are some as large as carriage horses, so strong that they can easily break a tree as thick as one's thigh. The nation of the Sioux hunt them very much, using them for food and trading their skins with the French Canadians. We sell in return wares which come very dear to the buyers, especially tobacco from Brazil in the proportion of a hundred crowns the pound ; two little horn-handled knives or four leaden bullets are equal to ten crowns in exchange for their merchandises of skins, and so with the rest.

In the beginning of May we launched our shallop in the water and loaded it with this green earth that had been taken out of the mines and with the furs we had traded for, of which we brought away three canoes full. M. le Sueur, before going, held council with M. d' Eraque, the Canadian gentleman, and the three great chiefs of the Sioux, three brothers, and told them that as he had to return to the sea he desired them to live in peace with M. d' Eraque, whom he left in command of Fort L* Huillier, with twelve Frenchmen. M. le Sueur made a con- siderable present to the three brothers, chiefs of the savages, desiring them never to abandon the French. After this we, the twelve men whom he had chosen to go down to the sea with him, embarked. In setting out M. le Sueur promised to M. d' Eraque and the twelve Frenchmen who remained with him to guard the fort, to send up munitions of war from the Illinois country as soon as he should arrive there ; which he did, for on getting there he sent off to him a canoe loaded with two thousand pounds of lead and powder, with three of our

people in charge of it. * * * *

* * * * * * *

In this same time^ M. d' Iberville- had sent a boat laden with munitions of war and provisions, to M. de St. Denis, commanding the fort on the bank of the Mississippi. They found there M. d' Eraque, who had arrived with the twelve Frenchmen, who remained with him at fort L' Huillier. He came shortly after in the same boat to Mobile, where

1. Spring of 1702.

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M. D* Iberville was, whom he saluted, and reported to him that M. LE Sueur having left him at the fort L' Haillier, had promised him, in parting, to send him from the Illinois country, ammu- nition and provisions, and that having looked for them a long time without hearing any news of them, he had been attacked by the nations of the Maskoutins and Foxes, who had killed three of our Frenchmen whilst they were working in the woods but two gun shots beyond the fort ; that when the savages had retreated he had been obliged, after having concealed the merchandises he had remaining, and seeing that he was out of powder and lead, to abandon the fort and descend with his people to the sea; that at the Wisconsin he had met M. JucHEREAU, criminal judge of Montreal, in Canada, with thirty-five men, whom he had brought with him to establish a tannery at the Wabash ; that he had descended with him to the Illinois where he had found the canoe M. de Bienville sent him ; that he had arrived in this canoe at the post of M. de St. Denis the night before the boat arrived there ; and that having learned irom M. de St. Denis of the arrival of M. d' Iberville he had taken advantage of that opportunity to pay his respects to him, and offer him at the same time his services.

NOTE TO THE FOREGOING.

Explorers and scientific men have searched for Le Sueur's alleged ♦• copper mine" without success, and pronounce it mythical. See Nicollet, p. 18; Keating, Vol. I, p. 355; Featherstonhaugh, Vol. I, pp. 2 ; 301-305. The account of the latter is so pertinent, we give it, somewhat abridged :

Sept. 22. [1835.] Soon after 8 a. m. we came to the mouth of the Mahkatoh, or " Blue Earth Kiver." This was a bold stream, about 80 yards wide, loaded with mud of a bluish color, evidently the cause of the St. Peter's being so turbid. It was not far from the mouth of this river that M. Le Sueur was asserted to have discovered in 1692 an immense deposit of copper ore. No traveller had ever entered the river to investigate his statement; I therefore directed the head of the canoe to be turned into the stream. Having ascended it about a mile we found a Sissiton family established with their skin lodge

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upon a sand bar. * * These people constantly asserted that they knew of no remains of any old fort or stone building in that part of the country. ♦ * ♦ Whilst we were negotiating this exchange, it began to snow for the first time this autumn. ♦ * Pushing on, we passed a singular conical grassy hill on the right bank, which commanded all the vicinity,. and appeared to be a likely situation for the site of Lk Sueur's Fort. * * About 12, we came to a fork or branch coming in on our right, about 45 yards broad, and we turned into it, having a well-wooded bluff on the right bank, about 90 feet high. "We had not proceeded three-quarters of a mile when we reached the place which the Sissitons had described to us as being that to which the Indians resorted for their pigment. Thia was a bluff about 150 feet high, on the left bank, and from the slope being much trodden and worn away, I saw at once that it was a locality which for some purpose or other had been frequented from a very remote period. We accordingly stopped there, whilst I examined the place.

As soon as I had reached that part of the bluff whence the pigment had been taken, Lk Sueur's story lost all credit with me, for I instantly saw that it was nothing but a continuation of the seam which divided the sandstone from the limestone, and which I have before spoken of at the Myah Skah, as containing a silicate of iron of a bluish-green colour. The concurrent account of all the Indians we had spoken with, that this was the place the aborigines had always resorted to, to procure their pigment, and the total silence of every- body since Le Sueur's visit respecting any deposit of copper ore, in this or any other part of the country, convinced me that the story of his copper mines was a fabulous one, most probably invented to raise himself in importance with the French government of that day. Charlevoix having stated that the mine was only a league and three- quarters from the mouth of the Terre Bleu, made it certain that I was now at that locality, and the seam of coloured earth gave the key to the rest. Le Sueur's account of the mine being at the foot of a mountain ten leagues long, was as idle as the assertion that he had obtained 30,000 lbs. of copper ore in 22 days, for there is nothing like a mountain in the neighborhood. The bluff, to be sure, rises to the height of 150 feet from the river; but when you have ascended it, you find yourself at the top of a level prairie. * * ♦ Finding the copper mine to be a fable, I turned my attention—" &c., «fec.— W.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MINNESOTA.

PREPARED BY THE LIBRARIAN OF THE SOCIETY. NOTE.

While I have ventured to call this article a " Bibliography of Min- nesota," its peculiar arrangement, departing as it does, somewhat from the usual rules of Bibliography, may weaken its claim to that title. It is little more, in reality, than a transcript of the Catalogue of that portion of the Library of the Minnesota Historical Society, which relates to this State. The collection of works and publications on that subject now in possession of the Society, is so nearly com- plete, that it contains almost every work which can be said to strictly belong to a Bibliography of Minnesota, in addition to a large number — (not, however, included in this paper)— which have such intimate relations to the subject, they might reasonably have been embraced in it, had not the list threatened to consume too much space.

I have arranged the titles by subjects, believing that this plan will best show at a glance what has been printed in any one class or division ; while numerous cross-references, and an index of authors, will, I trust, remedy any defects which that plan may have. It will be remarked, also, that all works are arranged chronologically.

This is the first attempt to collect and publish a list of works rela- ting to Minnesota. It will be a matter of surprise to many, even of our own citizens, that so much has been printed— here and else- where—relating to a State organized as a separate commonwealth only twenty-one years ago ; and it is sent forth in the hope that it may prove some aid to Librarians and Bibliographers in other States, no less than to our own citizens. J- ^- W.

EARLY EXPLORATIONS AND TRAVELS, Made prior to the organization of Minnesota as a Territory in 1849.

Voyage ou nouvelle decouverte d' un Tres Grand Pays dans L' Amerique, entre le nouveau Mexique et la mer glaciale,

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par le K. P. Louis Hennepin ; Avec toutes les particularitez de ce Pais, & de celui connu sous le nom de LA L0U1SLA.NE ; les avantages qui on en pent tirer par V establissement des Colonies enrichie de Cartes Geographiques. Augmente de quelques figures en taille douce. Avec un voyage qui eontient une Relation exacte de.rOrigine, Mceurs, Coustumes, Religion, Guerres & Voyages des Caraibes, Sauvages des Isles Antilles de L' Amerique, Faite par le Sieur De La Borde, Tiree du Cabinet de Monsr. Blondel, Amsterdam. Chez Adriaan Braakman, Marchand Libraire pres le Dam, 1704, 16^ : pp. xxxiv, 604, [2 maps, 6 engravings.]

Memoire sur les M(eurs, Coustumes etRelligion des Sauva- ges de L' Amerique Septentrionale, par Nicolas Perrot ; Public pour la Premiere fois par le R. P. J. Tailhan, de la Compagnie de Jesus. • Leipzig & Paris, Librairie A. Franck. Albert L. Herold, 1864, 12° : pp. viii, 341, xliii. [See Collections of Minn. Histor. Soc, Pg. 22.]

New Voyages to North America, giving a full account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion, and Strange Opinions of the Savages of that Country, with Political Remarks upon the Courts of Portugal and Denmark, and the present State of the Commerce of those Countries. The Second Edition, Written by the Baron Lahontan, Lord-Lieutenant of the French Colony at Placentia in Newfoundland; Now in England. London; Printed for J. Walthoe. J. and J. Bonwicke, J. Osborn, S. Birt, T. Ward, and E. Wicksteed, 1735. Two vols., 12°. Vol. I, pp. XXIV, 280. [2 maps ; 4 plates.] Vol. II, pp. 302. [3 maps ; 9 plates.]

The Discovery of the Great West ; by Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown & Co., 1869, 8° : pp. 425.

fThis work covers the period from 1643 to 1689.]

Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida, inclu- ding Translations of original manuscripts relating to their Discovery and Settlement, with numerous Historical and Biographical Notes. By B. F. French. New Series. New York :. J. Sabin & Sons, 84 Nassau street, 1869, 8° : pp. 362.

The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the

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Countries that lye on both Sides of the River Mississippi : With an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate and Products. Translated from the French, (lately published) by M. Le Page Du Pratz ; with some Notes and Observations re- lating to our Colonies. In Two Volumes. London : mdcc,- Lxm, 16°. Vol. I, pp. VI, 368 ; [map.] Vol. II: pp. vi, 272 [map.]

Historical Collections of Louisiana, embracing Transla- tions of many rare and valuable Documents relating to the Natural, Civil and Politicsl History of that State, ett. Part IV. Redfield, New York : 1852. 8° pp. 268. [Map.]

[Entitled "Discovery and Explorations of tlie Mississippi;" contains Original Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membra, Hennepin and Douay.]

Early Voyages up and Down the Mississippi. By Cava- lier, St. Cosme, LeSueur, Gravier and Guignas. With an introduction and Notes. [By John G. Shea.] Albany : 1861, 4°: pp.191.

Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal Historique d' un Voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans L' Amerique Septentrionnale. Par le P. De Charle- voix de la Compagnie de Jesus, a Paris, m. dcc. xliv. Avec Approbation et Privilege du Roi. Three Volumes, 4°: pp. xxvi, 664 ; XVI, 582 and 56 ; xiv, 543.

Travels through the Interior Parts of North America in the years 1766, 1767 and 1768. By J. Carver, Esq., Captain of a Company of Provincial Troops during the late War with France. Illustrated with copper plates, coloured. The third edition. To which is added, some account of the Author and a Copious Index. London: mdcclxxxi. 8° pp. 564. [2 maps, 5 engravings. 3j|^

Do. Another edition, published by Isaiah Thomas &

Co., Walpole, N. H., 1813 ; 16° : pp. 280.

Do. Another edition, entitled " Carver's Travels in

Wisconsin." New York : Printed by Harper & Brothers, No. 82, Cliff Street, 1838 ; 8° : pp. 376, [2 maps, 5 engravings.]

Carver Centenary : [See " Collections of the Historical Society."]

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Exploratory Travels through the Western Territories of North America : Comprising a voyage from Saint Louis, on the Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the northeastern Provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the Government of the United States. By Zebulon Montgomery Pike. London : 1811, 4° : pp. 436, [2 maps.]

Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit northwest through the Great Chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, in the year 1820. By Henry R. School- craft. Albany : Published by E. & E. Hosford, 1821, 8° : pp. 424. [Map, 7 illustrations.]

Narrative of an Expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnipeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. Performed in the Year 1823, by order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secre- tary of War, under the Command of Stephen H. Long, U. S. T. E. Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating & Colhoun, by William H. Keating, A. M. &c., Pro- fessor of Mineralogy and Chemistry as applied to the Arts, in the University of Pennsylvania ; Geologist and Historiographer to the Expedition. In two Volumes. London : Printed by Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, 1825, 8°. Vol. 1, Pp. xvi, 458. [4 illustrations and map.] Vol. 2, Pp. vi, 404. [3 illustra- tions.]

La Decouverte des Sources du Mississippi et de la Riviere Sanglante. Description du Cours entier du Mississippi, Qui n'etait connu, que partiellement, et d'une grand partie de celui de la Riviere Sanglante, presque entierement inconnue ; ainsi que du Cours entier de I'Ohio, &c., &c. Coup d'oeil, sur les compagnies nord-ouest, et de l^aie d* Hudson, ainsi que sur la Colonic Selkirk. Preuves Evidentes, que le Missis- sippi est la premiere Riviere du Monde. Par J. C. Beltrami, Membre de plusieurs Academies. Nouvelle-Orleans : Imprime par Benj. Levy, No. 86, Rue Royale, 1824. 8° : pp. vii, 328.

A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River ; with a description of the whole course of the former, and of

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the Ohio. By J. C. Beltrami, Esq., formerly Judge of a Royal Court in the Ex-Kingdom of Italy. In two volumes. London : Printed for Hunt and Clarke, York Street, Co vent Garden. 1828. 8°. Vol. I, Pp. Lxxvi. 472. [2 maps, 1 engraving.] Vol. II, Pp. 546. [1 map, 3 engravings.]

,A Narrative of the XDaptivity and Adventures of John Tanner (U. S. Interpreter at the Sault de Ste. Marie,) during Thirty Years' Residence among the Indians in the Interior of North America. Prepared for the Press by Edwin James, M. D., Editor of an account of Major Long's Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains. New York : G. &C. &H. Carvill, 108 Broadway. 1830. 8°: pp. 426. [Portrait of Tanner and numerous wood cuts.]

[Tanner spent a number of years, during his captivity, in Minnesota, and some of his descendants yet live in the State.]

Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this River ; embracing an exploratory trip through the Saint Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers ; in 1832. Under the direction of Henry R. Schoolcraft. New York : Published .by Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff Street. 1834. 8° : pages 307. [3 maps.]

Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820, resumed and completed by the Discovery of its origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832. B}^ authority of the United States. With appendixes, &c., together with all the OflEicial Reports and Scientific Papers of both Expeditions. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. Philadel- phia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1855. 8° : pp. 596. [Maps and Illustrations.]

The Rambler in North America, mdcccxxxii — mdcccxxxiii. By Charles Joseph Latrobe, author of the " Alpenstock," etc. In two volumes. New York : Published by Harper & Brothers, No. 82, Cliff Street, and sold by the principal booksellers throughout the United States. 1835. 12°. Vol. 1, Pp. vii, 243. Vol. 2, Pp. 242.

Notes on the Wisconsin Territory ; particularly with refer- ence to the Iowa District, or Black Hawk Purchase. By 3

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Lieutenant Albert M. Lea, United States Dragoons. Phila- delphia : H. S. Tanner— Shakspeare Buildings. 1836. 24° : [with map :] pp. 53.

A Canoe Voyage up the Minnat Sotor ; with an account of the Lead and Copper Deposits in Wisconsin ; of the Gold Region in the Cherokee Country ; and sketches of popular manners, &c., &c., &c. By G. W. Featherstonhaugh, F. R. S. ; F. G. S. ; Author of " Excursion through the Slave States." In two Volumes. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majest3^ 1847. 8°. Vol. I, Pp. XIV, 416. [6 engravings and map.] Vol. II, Pp. vii, 351. [1 engraving.]

Report intended to illustrate a Map of the Hj^drographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River, made by I. N. Nicollet ; while in employ under the Bureau of the Corps of Topographi- cal Engineers. January 11, 1845. Washington: Blair & Rives, Printers. 1845. 8^: pp.170.

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers ; with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions. A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. Philadelphia : Lip- pincott, Grambo and Co., Successors to Grigg, Elliott & Co. 1851. 8°: pp. XLViii, 703.

[This work lacks an index, which greatly impairs its value.J

A Summer in the Wilderness ; embracing a Canoe Voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior. By Charles Lanman, author of ^' Essays for Summer Hours," etc. " And I was in the Wilderness alone." — Bryant. New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway, &c. mdcccxlvii. 12^ : pp. 208.

Report of a Geological Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota ; and incidentally of a portion of Nebraska Terri- tory. Made under instructions from the United States Treasury Department. By David Dale Owen, United States Geologist.

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Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1852. 4* : pp. ^38. [72 wood cuts ; 27 steel plates ; 18 colored maps, stone and copper.]

*** All the above are strictly Minnesota books— the authors of them having travelled in some portion of the State, as it now is. In addition to these, the student of Minnesota history should consult DuPratz, Charlevoix, the N. Y. Colonial Documents, &c., for incidental references to the region now known as Minnesota.

MINNESOTA: HISTORICAL, DESCRIPTIVE AND STATISTICAL.

The Homes of the New World ; Impressions of America.

By Frederika Bremer. Translated by Mary Howitt. " Sing

unto the Lord a new Song." — Psalm xcvi. In two volumes.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 and 331, Pearl

street, Franklin Square. 1864. 12°. Vol. I, Pp. xn, 651.

Vol. II, 654.

[Miss Bremer visited Minnesota in 1849 ; sixty-three pages of the 2d Vol. are devoted to it.]

Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West.

With Incidents of Travel in that Territory during the Summer

of 1849. In two Parts. By E. S. Seymour. With a Map.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff street.

1850. 12^: pp. 281. [Map.]

[Mr. Seymour lived at Galena, and made a short trip through Minnesota in 1849. His work is interesting and well written, and for three or four years was the only work descriptive of Minnesota accessible to the public. He is said to have died in 1852.]

Report of the Secretary op War, communicating the report of an Exploration of the Territory of Minnesota, by Brevet Captain Pope. March 21, 1850. 8^ : pp. 56.

[Ex. Doc. No. 42. 31st Congress, 1st Session.]

Pembina Settlement. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Maj. Wood, relative to his Expedition to Pembina Settlement, and the condition of affairs on the North- Western frontier of the Territory of Minnesota. March 19, 1850. 8° : pp. 55.

[Ex. Doc. No. 51: 3lst Congress, Ist Session.]

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Minnesota Year Book for 1851, by W. G. Le Due. Pub- lished by W. Gr. Le Duo, Bookseller and Stationer, St. Paul, Minnesota Territory. 12° : pp. 51.

do, for 1852 : 12° : pp. 98 : [cut.]

— - do, for 1853 : 12° : pp. 37 : [map.]

Minnesota and its Resources, to which are appended Camp-fire Sketches, or Notes of a Trip from Saint Paul to Pembina and Selkirk Settlement on the Red River of the North. By J. Wesley Bond. Redfield, 110 and 112, Nassau Street, New York. 1853. 12°: pp.364. [Map, and numerous illustrations.]

Do. do. Tenth (?) Edition. Keen & Lee, No. 148 Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois. Charles Desilver, No. 253, Market Street, Philadelphia. 1856. [Map and numerous illustra- tions.] Pp.412.

[The back is titled "Minnesota as it Is."]

Survey, etc., of Road from Mendota to Big Sioux River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting Report of the Survey, &c., of road from Mendota to the Big Sioux River. By Capt. J. L. Reno, U. S. A. April 28, 1854. 8° : pp. 12.

[Ex. Doc. No. 97 : 33d Congress, 1st Session.]

The Minnesota Messenger, containing Sketches of the Rise and Progress of Minnesota ; Tables of Distances from Different Points ; Directions to Strangers ; and various other Information, invaluable to the Traveller and Business Man. Saint Paul, M. T. A. D. Munson, Editor and Publisher. 1855. 8° : pp. 78:

Rise and Progress of Minnesota Territory, Including a Statement of the Business Prosperity of Saint Paul ; and In- formation in Regard to the Different Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages in the Territory, Etc. St. Paul : Published by C. L. Emerson, Minnesota Democrat Office, 1855. Royal 8° : pp. 64.

Minnesota and the Far West, by Laurence Oliphant, Esq., Late Civil Secretary and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in Canada. Author of " The Russian Shores of the Black Sea," &c. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh

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and London, mdccclv. 8° : pp. xiv, 306. [Map ; 13 illus- trations.] [Originalljl published in Blackwood's Magazine.]

The Immigrant's Guide to Minnesota in 1856. By an Old Resident. St. Anthony : W. W. Wales, Bookseller and Pub- lisher. 12^: pp. 116. [5 wood cuts.]

The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7. With a new and accurate map. By Nathan H. Parker, author of " Iowa as it Is," &c. Boston : John P. t[ewett and Company, mdccclvii. 12°: pp. 159. [Map.]

Minnesota and Dacotah : In letters descriptive of a Tour through the Northwest, in the Autumn of 1856. With In- formation Relative to Public Lands, and a Table of Statistics. By C. C. Andrews, Counsellor at Law ; Editor of the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States. Washington : Robert Farnham. 1857. 12° : pp. 215.

Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota. Early Sketches, Later Settlements, and Further Developments. By Harriet E. Bishop. New York : Sheldon, Blakeman & Com- pany. 1857. 12°: pp.342. [Portrait of Author, and nu- merous Illustrations.]

Minnesota: Address delivered at the Broadway House, New York, on the 27th March, 1857, by Ignatius Donnelly, Esq. New York: Folger & Turner, Printers, No. 118 John Street. 1857. 12° : pp. 16.

A Guide to Emigrants to Minnesota. By a Tourist. St. Paul : Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 1857. 12° : pp. 23.

The Emigrant's Guide to Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Containing a Correct History of all the Towns on the Missis- sippi River and its Tributaries, from Dubuque to its Head Waters. Also, all the Principal Towns in Minnesota. Pub- lished by J. Q. A. Ward, and M. V. B. Young, St. Paul. Printed at the Minnesotian Office. 1857. 24° : pp. 184.

The History of Minnesota: From the Earliest French Explorations, to the present time. By Edward Duffield Neill, Secretary of the * Minnesota Historical Society. ''Nee falsa

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dicere, rec vera reticere." Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott <fe Co. 1858. 8° : pp. 628. [4 maps.]

Do. do. Large Paper Copy ; with 36 steel engravings

illustrating Indian Life, 8 steel portraits and 5 maps.

Minnesota : or " A Bundle of Facts," going to Illustrate its Great Past, the Grand Present, and her Glorious Future ; by a Southern Pre-Emptor. [^Thomas B. Winst07i.'] 5,000 copies issued for gratuitous circulation. New Orleans : Pub- lished by J. B. Steel, No. 60 Camp Street. 1858. 24°: pp.32.

Minnesota : Its Place among the States. Being the First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Statistics, for the Year ending Jan. 1, 1860. Published by authority of law. Hart- ford ; Press of Case, Lockwood and Company. 1860. 8° : pp. 174.

Minnesota: Its Progress and Capabilities. Being the Second Annual Report of the Commissioner of Statistics, for the Years 1860 and 1861. Saint Paul: Wm. R. Marshall, State Printer. 1862. 8°: pp. 127. [Joseph A. "Wheelock was Commissioner of Statistics, 1860-63.]

Statistics of Minnesota, pertaining to its Agriculture, Population, Manufactures, etc., etc., for 1869. Being the Fu'st Annual Report of the Assistant Secretary of State [Pennock Pusey~\ to the Governor. Made according to law. Saint Paul : Press Printing Co. 1870. 8° : pp. 152.

Emigration, with special reference to Minnesota, U. S. and British Columbia. By Thomas Rawlings. London : Clayton & Co., Printers. 8° : pp. 24. Map. [1864.]

Notes upon the Geology of some portions of Minnesota, from St. Paul to the Western Part of the State. By James Hall. 1866. 4°: pp.12.

Geology and Minerals. A Report of Explorations in the Mineral Regions of Minnesota during the Years 1848, 1859 and 1864, by Col. Charles Whittlesey. Printed by order of the General Assembly [of Minnesota], Cleveland : Herald Office. 1866. 8°: pp. 54.

Minnesota as a Home fob Immigrants. Being the First

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and Second Prize Essa3^s awarded by the Board of Examiners appointed Pursuant to an Act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota. Approved March 4, 1864. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1866. 8° : pp. 84. ^

[I. Mary J. Colburn. II. W.R.Smith.]

Hand Book of Minnesota: Describing its Agricultural, Commercial and Manufacturing Resources, and other Capabili- ties of Producing Wealth; also, its Physical and Social Conditions and Its Future. By Rufus Blanchard. Chicago : Blanchard & Cram. 1867. 18° : pp. 64.

Tourists and Invalid's Guide to the Northwest. Con- taining Information about Minnesota, Wisconsin, Dacota, and the Lake Superior Region. Compiled by Charles H. Sweetser, New York. 1867. 8° : pp. 50.

Upper Mississippi; or, Historical Sketches of the Mound Builders, the Indian Tribes, and the Progress of Civilization in the Northwest ; from A. D. 1600 to the Present Time. By George Gale. Chicago : Clarke and Company. 1867. 12° : pp. 460. [ With poHrait of Author.']

Minnesota: Its Advantages to Settlers. Being a brief Synopsis of its History and Progress, Climate, Soil, Agricul- tural and Manufacturing Facilities, and Social Status ; Its Lakes, Rivers and Railroads ; Homestead and Exemption Laws ; Embracing a concise Treatise on its Climatologj^ in a Hygienic and Sanitary Point of View ; Its unparalleled Salu- brity, Growth and Productiveness, as compared with the Older States, and the elements of its Future Greatness and Pros- perity. For Gratuitous Circulation. Order Copies to any Address, from Girart Hewitt, St. Paul, Minn. 1867. 8° : pp. 36. [This is usually called " Hewitt's Pamphlet." 150,000 copies of this have been issued.]

Tourist's Guide to the Upper Mississippi River : Giving all the Railroad and Steamboat Routes Diverging from Chicago, Milwaukee & Dubuque toward Saint Paul, etc. Compiled by J. Disturnell. New York. 1868. 12° : pp. 92. [Maps.]

Dakota Land ; or the Beauty of Saint Paul. An Original, Illustrated, Historic and Romantic Work, presenting a Combi-

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nation of Marvellous Dreams and Wandering Fancies, Singular Events and Strange Fatalities, all interwoven with Graphic Descriptions of the Beautiful Scenery and Wonderful Enchantment in Minnesota. To which is added " A Round of Pleasure," with interesting Notes of Travel, Maps, etc., and Forming a Comprehensive Guide to the Great North West. By Col. Hankins, Editor of " The New York Home Gazette," &c. 1868 : Hankins & Son, Publishers, New York. 12° ; pp. 460. [Illustrations and Map.]

Address of the Minnesota Irish Emigration Convention, held in the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Jan. 20, 1869, to the People of Ireland. Saint Paul : North Western Chronicle Print. 1869. 8° : pp. 22.

The Minnesota Guide. A Hand Book of Information for the Traveller, Pleasure Seekers & Immigrants, concerning all Routes of Travel to and in the State ; Sketches of the Towns and Cities in the Same, etc., etc. [By J. F. Williams.^ Saint Paul: E.H. Burritt & Co. 1869. 16°: pp. 100. [9 cuts, 1 map.]

Minnesota as it is in 1870. Its General Resources and Attractions * * * with special descriptions of all its Counties and Towns. * * * By J.W. McClung. St. Paul : Published by the Author. 1870. 12° : pp. 300. [Map.]

The Seat op Empire. By Charles Carleton CoflSin. (" Carleton.") Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. 1870. 12°: pp. 232. [Map ; 6 engravings.]

Minnesota Gazetteer and Business Directory. — See " State Gazetteers and Directories."

Edwards' Descriptive Gazetteer of the Mississippi River. — See do. do.

The Sioux War of 1862-3. See '' The Indian Tribes of Minnesota."

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EMIGRATION DOCUMENTS, IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES.

Nachrichten uber Minnesota. Gesammelt von Eduard Pelz. Hamburg, 1858. 8° : pp. 25.

Ueber Auswanderung. Von Ed. Pelz. Besonderer Ab- druck kus der " Deutschen Auswanderer — Ztg." No. 47-49. Bremen, 1864. 12° : pp. 25.

Die Auswanderung mit besonderer Beziehung aup Min- nesota UND British Columbia. Von Thomas Rawlings. Aus dera Englishen ubertragen und eingeleitet, von Eduard Pelz. Hamburg : Hoffman & Campe, 1866. 12° : pp. 63.

Minnesota in Seinen Hauptverhaltnissen. Emigrations- Monographie von Eduard Pelz. Dritte Auflage. Hamburg : Hoffman & Campe. 1866. 8°: pp. 52.

Minnesota og dets Fordele for Invandreren, &c. Uddeles gratis. La Crosse, Wis. Trykt : Fadrelandets Officin. 1867. 12° : pp. 30. [Written by Hon. H. Mattson,]

Minnesota och dess Fordelar for Invandraren ; &c. Utdelas Gratis. Chicago: Svenska AmerikanarensBoktryckeri,

1867. 12° : pp. 29. [By H. Mattson.]

Minnesota, (Vereenigde Staten von Nord-Amerika) in zijne Hulpbronnen, Vruchtbaarheid en Ontwikkeling Geschetst, voor Landverhuizers en Kapitalisten door J. H. Kloos, in- genieur. Amsterdam : H. de Hoogh. 1867. 8° : pp. 54.

Another Edition. With Map. pp. 61.

Inlichtingen omtrent den St. Paul en Pacific-Spoorweg, medegedeeld door W. v. O. B. Schriver van " Amerikaanische Fondsen als Geldbelegging." Amsterdam: H. de Hoogh.

1868. 8°: pp. 20.

Minnesota das Central-Gebiet Nord Americas. In seinen Hauptverhaltnissen dargestellt, von Eduard Pelz. Leipzig: Verlagsbuchandlung von J. J. Weber. 1868. 8° : pp.' 31.

Staten Minnesota; Nordamerika. Dens Fordele for den Skandinaviske Invandrermed saerligt hensyn til jordbrugeren. Af Soren Listol, Medredaktor af " Nordisk Folkblad." 1869-70. 4

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Udgivet for Statens Regning. Uddeles Gratis. Nordisk Folkeblad Officin, Minneapolis. 1869. 12° : pp. 25.

Minnesota als eine Heimat fur Einwanderer. Dritte Jahresausgabe, publizirt in Auftrage des Staates. St. Paul, Minn. 186^. Staats-Zeitung Officin. 8° : pp. 40.

TOWN AND COUNTY HISTORIES.

An Address giving the Earlj- History of Hennepin County delivered before the Minneapolis Lyceum, by Col. John H. Ste- vens, and published by Order of the Lyceum. Minneapolis : Printed at the North-Western Democrat Office. 1856. 8° : pp. 12.

Opinion and Decision of Hon. A. G . Chatfield, between adverse claimants to lands in the Town site of Hastings. St. Paul. 1857. 8°: pp. 20.

Advantages and Resources of Houston County, Minnesota. Hokah, Minn. Published by Reynolds and Wertz. Printed at the Hokah Chief Office. 1858. 18° : pp. 34.

History of Fillmore County, Minnesota, with an outline of her Resources, Advantages, and the Inducements she offers to those seeking Homes in the West. By J. W. Bishop, C. E. Chatfield, Minn. : Holly & Brown, Printers, Republican Office. 1858. 12°: pp. 40. [Map.]

City of Winona and Southern Minnesota: a Sketch of their Growth and Prospects, with General Information for the Emigrant, Mechanic, Farmer and Capitalist. D. Sinclair & Co., Publishers. 1858. 8° : pp. 36.

School Law : with the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Education of the City of St. Anthony. Thomas & Clark, Printers, St. Anthony. 1860. 12°: pp. 15.

The Charter and Amendments thereto, and Ordinances or THE City of St. Anthony. Printed and published by authority of the Corporation. Thomas & Clark, City Printers. 1861.

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CoMMERCiAi. Advertiser Directory, for Saint Anthony and Minneapolis; to which is added a Business Directory. 1859-1860. H. E. Chamberlain, Publisher. Saint Anthony & Minneapolis. Printed by Croffut & Clarke, News Office. 1859. 8°: pp. 162.

Summary Statement of the General Interests of Manufac- ture and Trade connected with the Upper Mississippi. By Hon. David Heaton. Together with the Hydrographical Survey and Geology of the Mississippi River from Fort Snelling to St. Anthony Falls, by T. M. Griffith and Dr. C. L. Anderson. Riblished by the Board of Trade of Minneapolis and St. Anthony. 1862. 8°: pp.12.

Minneapolis Directory, for the years 1865-6, comprising a complete Directory of citizens and business firms, a classified Business Directory, and city and county Register. Price, $2. Minneapolis : E. P. Shaw, Publisher. 1865. 8° : pp. 99.

Winona Directory for 1866-67: Comprising a Complete List of all residents in the City ; City and County Officers, Churches, Public Schools, etc. Compiled by John M. Wolfe, Winona. A. Bailey, Publisher. 1866. 8° : pp. 124.

Geographical and Statistical History of the County OF Olmsted, together with a general view of the State of Minnesota, from its Earliest Settlement to the present time. By W. H. Mitchell. Rochester, Minn. : Shaver & Eaton, Printers. 1866. 16°: pp.121.

History and Business Directory of Wright County. Classified by Towns. Containing a Correct and Concise History of Each Town and Village in the County, together with a Classified List of all Business Houses, Statistics of Population, Wealth, Increase, Crops, &c. Published by George Gray, Statesman Office, Monticello, Minn. 1867. 16° : pp. 32.

Man-kato and Blue Earth County. A Brief Review of the Past, Present and Future of the City, together with its Geographical and Commercial Position, its Schools, Churches, Public Halls, Assessed Valuation and Rapid Growth in 1866, &c., &c. By Wm. B. Griswold, Editor Mankato Union. Printed by Griswold & Neff, Union Office. 1867. 12° : pp. 20.

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A View of St. Anthony Falls, Present and Prospective : being a Report of the Manufacturing, Commercial and General Advantages of St. Anthony Falls, Minnesota. By W. D. Storey. Minneapolis : Atlas Printing House. 1867. 8°: pp. 37.

Waseca County in Minnesota, as a Home for Immigrants. By Jas. E. Child. Published and for sale at the Wilton Weekly News Office, Wilton, Minn. 1867. 18° : pp. 52.

Geographical and Statistical History of Steele Coxjnty, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time ; Embracing Leading Incidents of Pioneer Life, Names of Early Settlers, Nature of Soil, Advantages to Settlers, &c., &c. By W. H. Mitchell. Minneapolis ; Tribune Printing Company. 1868. 16°: pp.97.

Dakota County. Its Past and Present, Geographical, Sta- tistical and Historical, together with a General View of the State ; by W. H. Mitchell. Tribune Printing Company, Min- neapolis. 1868. 16^: pp. 162. [Steel plate of Gen. Sibley and six wood cuts.]

Geographical and Statistical History of the County of Hennepin, embracing Leading Incidents in Pioneer Life, the Names of the Early Settlers, and the Progress in Wealth and Population to the Present Time. By W. H. Mitchell and J. H. Stevens. Minneapolis: Russell & Belfoy, Printers. 1868. 16°: pp. 149.

A Record of Rice County, Minn., in 1868, being a Review of the Settlement, Growth and Prosperity of the County, and a Brief Description of its Towns and Villages. By F. W. Frink. Faribault : Printed at the Central Republican Office. 1868. 12° : pp. 24.

Blue Earth County : Its Advantages to Settlers. A De- scription of its History, Progress, Climate, Soil, Agricultural, Manufacturing & Commercial Facilities. To which is added a Brief Description of the Other Counties of Southwestern Min- nesota. By J. A. Willard, of Mankato. Published by J. C. Wise, " Record'^ Office, Mankato, Minn. 1868. 8° : pp. 20.

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The Water Power of the Falls of St. Anthony. 1868. Third Annual Report of Manufacturing Industry at the Cities of Minneapolis and St. Anthony, Minnesota, &c. Minneapo- lis. 1869. 8°: pp. 16.

Faribault County, Minnesota : Its History, Towns, Climate, Improvements, Villages, Civil, Religious, Moral and Educa- tional Institutions, &c., &c. [No imprint.] 12° : pp. 24. [1868?]

Supreme Court : January Term, 1868. Village of Man-

kato, Respondent, vs. Jno. A. Willard and Sheldon T. Barney,

Appellants, &c., &c. 12° : pp. 38.

fSupreme Court brief, containing quite a full account of the early settle- ment of Mankato.]

Board of Trade of the City of Mankato. Articles of Corporation, By-Laws, Officers, Committees and Members. Organized Sept. 16, 1868. Mankato, Minnesota. Mr-nkato Union Print. 1869. 8° : pp. 14.

Capt. p. B. Davy's Expedition. Printed April, 1868, at Blue Earth City, Minn., in the Office of the "South West." 12°: pp. 24. [Most of it is a Sketch of Blue Earth City.]

Rules and Regulations for the government of the Public Schools in the City of Red Wing, Minnesota. 1869. Argus Printing House. 1869.

Sale of Fort Snelleng Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting Papers Relative to the Sale of the Fort Snelling Reservation. Dec. 10, 1868. 8°: pp. 107.

[Ex. Doc. No. 9. 40th Congress, 3d Session; H. of R. Contains a valuable Documentary History of Fort Snelling, and other historical facts.]

Strangers* Guide in Minneapolis and Surrounding Country. With a complete and accurate description of all Places and Objects of Interest to Tourists, Artists, Sportsmen, &c. Tables of Distances, Statistics, &c. Prepared by a Resident [Newton H. Chittenden?] Minneapolis: Tribune Printing Company. 1869. 16°: pp.40.

Geographical and Statistical Sketch of the Past and Present of Goodhue County, together with a general view of

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the State of Minnesota. By W. H. Mitchell, Minneapolis : O. S. King's Book and Job Printing House. 1869. 16°: pp. 191. [4 wood cuts.]

Report of the Select Committee to which was referred that part of the Message of the Governor of Minnesota relating to Duluth, as a Harbor and Port of Entry. Saint Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1870. 8°: pp.21. [Map.]

Mankato — Dedication of First Presb. Church : see " Ser- mons," &c.

Minneapolis — Westminster Presby. Church. Do. do.

Parish Manual of Gethsemane Church: see

"Churches."

Saint Paul — Institution of the Masonic Order : see " Ma- sonic."

Catalogues of Baldwin School and Female

Seminary : see " Catalogues," «&c.

Saint Anthony — Catalogues of Sigourney Boarding School and State University. Do. do.

Red Wing — Catalogues of Hamline University.

Manual of First Presbyterian Church of:

see '' Churches," &c.

Stone Heaps at : see Vol. I, Histor. Soc. Coll.

Faribault — Catalogues of St. Mary's Hall, &c. : see " Cata- logues."

Bishop Seabury Mission : see " Churches."

NoRTHFiELD — Do. of Northficld College : see " Catalogues." Wasioja — Do. of Minnesota Seminary. Do. do.

Fort Snelling — See Mrs. Eastman's " Dahcotah."

List of early Steamboat Arrivals at : see Vol. I,

Histor. Soc. Collections.

Occurrences from 1819 to 1840 : see Vol. H. Do.

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STATE GAZETTEERS AND "DIRECTORIES."

Minnesota Gazetteer, and Business Directory for 1865. Containing a List of Cities, Villages and Post Offices in the State ; a list of Business Firms, etc., etc. With much other Useful Information. Saint Paul : GroflT &• Bailey, Publishers. 1865. 8° : pp. 399.

Merwin's Business Directory op Minnesota, for 1869-70. Containing a Classified List, Alphabetically Arranged by Towns, of Business Firms, Manufacturing Establishments, etc., etc. Saint Paul : Heman Merwin, Publisher. 1869. 8° : pp. 308.

EDWARif s Descriptive Gazetteer and Commercial Direc- tory OF the Misstssippi River, from Saint Cloud to New Orleans, embracing Historical and Descriptive Sketches of all the Cities, Towns and Villages, etc., etc. Published by Edwards, Greenough & Deved, St. Louis. 1866. 8°: pp. 1170. [Maps and numerous cuts.]

RELATIONS OF MINNESOTA TO THE NORTHWEST.

Speech of the Hon. Wm. H. Nobles, together with Other Documents, relative to an Emigrant Route to California and Oregon, through Minnesota Territory. Printed by Order of the House of Representatives. Saint Paul : Olmsted & Brown, Territorial Printers. 1854. 8° : pp. 13.

Report from a Select Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives, on the Overland Emigration Route from Minnesota to British Oregon. With an Appendix. Printed by order of the H. of R. St. Paul : Earle S. Goodrich, State Printer. 1858. 8°: pp. 100.

Proceedings of a Public Meeting of Citizens of Minnesota, in favor of a Semi- Weekly Overland Mail from Saint Paul to Puget Sound. Held Jan. 3, 1859. Saint Paul: Pioneer Printing Compan}^ 1859. 8°: pp.16.

Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Saint Paul, rela-

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tive to the Navigation of the Red River of the North. Presented to the House of Representatives, Feb. 10, 1859, by the Hon. James M. Cavanaugh, of Minnesota. Washington, 1859. 8°: pp. 15.

The New North West. By [Rev.'] Burdett Hart, Fair Haven, Conn. [From the New Englander for Nov., 1859.] 8°: pp. 21.

North- West British America, and Its Relations to the State of Minnesota. By James W. Taylor. Printed as a Supplement to the Journal of the House of Representatives, Session of 1859-60. St. Paul : Newson, Moore, Foster & Co., Printers. 1860. 8°: pp. 53. i

Do. Do. Another edition, from type of the " Minne-

sotian & Times." March 3, 1860. [With map.]

Relations between the United States and North- West British America. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a Resolution of the House of 20th May last, &c. [Exec. Doc. No. 146 : 37th Congress, 2d Session.] 8° : pp. 85. July 11, 1862.

Idaho : her Gold Fields, and the Routes to them. A Hand Book for Emigrants. By Capt. Jas. L. Fisk, A. Q. M. 1863. New York : John A. Gray, Printer. 18° : pp. 99. [Map.]

[Reprint of the foregoing.]

Expedition of Capt. Fisk to the Rocky Mountains. Let- ter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House of Feb. 26. Transmitting report of Captain Fisk of his late expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Idaho. 8° : pp. 39.

[March 3, 1864. Ex. Doc. No. 45: 38th Congress, 1st Session.]

Capt. Fisk's Fourth Expedition from Saint Cloud, Minne- sota, to the Great Gold Fields of Montana, &c. 3d edition. St. Paul : Press Printing Company. 1866. 12° : pp. 12.

[The Winnipeg Rebellion :] Message of the President of the U. S. communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information, &c. Feb. 3, 1870. [Ex. Doc. No. 33.] 8° : pp. 52.

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Minnesota and the Far West. — See " Historical, Descrip- tive," &c.

Minnesota and Dacotah. — Do. do.

Emigrant's Guide to Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. — Do.

Tourist's and Invalid's Gtuide to the North West. — Do.

HYDROGRAPHY OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI.

Survey of Upper Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House * * * with General Warren's report of the Surveys of the Upper Mississippi River and its Tributaries. 8° : pp. 116.

[Senate Doc. : 39th Congress, 2d Session. Feb. 15, 1867.]

Do. Report of Gen. Warren for year ending June 30,

1861. 8°: pp. 6.

["Appendix D;" Report of the Chief of Engineers. Ex. Doc. No. 1: H. of R. ; 40th Congress, 2d Session. Dated Sept. 14, 1867.1

Do. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting

General Warren's report of a Survey of the Upper Mississippi River. 8° : pp. 10.

[Ex. Doc. No. 247: 40th Congress, 2d Session. April 8, 1868.]

Do. Report of Gen. Warren for Year ending June 30,

1868. 8°: pp. 86.

["Appendix G ; " Report of the Chief of Engineers. Ex. Doc. I, Part 2: H. of R.; 40th Congress, 3d Sesssion. Dated Aug. HI, 1868.]

" Certain Physical Features of the Upper Mississippi River." A paper read by Gen. G. K. Warren before the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Chicago, 111. Aug. 5-12, 1868, 8° : pp. 6.

Nicollet's Report on the Hydrography of the Upper Mis- sissippi.— See " Early Explorations and Travels."

Edward's Directory of the Mississippi River. — See

" Gazetteers," &c.

Hydrographical Survey of the Mississippi, between Fort .5

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Snelling and St. Anthony Falls. — See "Town and County History."

The Water Power of the Falls of St. Anthony. — See do.

Memoir on the Physical Geography of Minnesota. — See Vol. I, Hist. Soc. Collec.

THE INDIAN TRIBES OF MINNESOTA.

Dahcotah ; or Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling. By Mrs. Mary Eastman ; with preface by Mrs. C. M. Kirkland. Illustrated from drawings by Capt. Eastman. New York : John Wiley, 161 Broadway. 1849. 12°. Pp. xiii, 268.

The Romance of Indian Life. By Mrs. Mary H. Eastman. With other tales, Selections from the Iris, an illuminated Souvenir. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1853. 8°. Pp. VI, 298. [10 illustrations.] [Mrs. Eastman now resides in "Washington City, D. C]

Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Written during eight years' Travel amongst the wildest Tribes of Indians in North America ; by Geo. Catlin. In two volumes, with 150 illustrations, &c. Philadelphia : Willis P. Hazard. 1857. Pp. 792.

Dahkotah Land and Dahkotah Life, with the History of the Fur Traders of the extreme Northwest during the French and British Dominions. By Edw. D, Neill. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co. 1859. 8° : pp. 239.

[This is a reprint of a portion of Neill's History of Minnesota.]

The Sioux War : What has been done by the Minnesota Campaign of 1863 : What should be done during a Dakota Campaign of 1864, Etc. By James W. Taylor. Saint Paul : Press Printing Co. 1863. 8° : pp. 16.

History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863 ; by Isaac V. D. Heard. With Portraits and Illustrations. New York : Harper & Brothers. 1864. 8° : pp. 354. [33 engrav- ings.]

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Mrs. Eastlick's Narrative [of Captivity among the Sioux]

1863. 12^: pp. 37.

Dakota War Whoop; or Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota. By Harriet E. Bishop McConkey. Saint Paul: Published by D. D. Merrill. Press Printing Company. 1863. 12°: pp. 304.

Dakota War Whoop: or, Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota, of 1862-3. By Harriet E. Bishop McConkey, Author of "Floral Homes," &c. Revised Edition. Saint Paul: Published for the Author. Wm. J. Moses* Press, Auburn, N. Y. 1864. 12° : pp. 429.

Miss Coleson's Narrative op her Captivity Among the Sioux Indians ! An Interesting and Remarkable Account of the Terrible Sufferings and Providential Escape of Miss Ann Coleson, a Victim of the late Indian Outrages in Minnesota. Philadelphia : Published by Barclay & Co. 1864. 8° : pp. 70. [Several illustptions.]

Sex Weeks jn the Sioux Tepees : a Narrative of Indian Captivity, by Mrs. Sarah F. Wakefield. Second Edition. Shakopee : Argus Printing Office. 1864. 12° : pp. 63.

A History op the Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota, including the personal narratives of many who escaped. By Charles S. Bryant, A. M. , and Abel B. Murch. (8th thousand.) Cincinnati : Rickey and Carroll, Publishers.

1864. 12°: pp.504. [7 illustrations.]

Effort & Failure to Civilize the Aborigines. Letter to Hon. N. G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from Edward D. Neill, late Secretary Minnesota Historical Socifety. Washington : Government Printing Office. 1868.

Taopi and His Friends ; or the Indian's Wrongs and Rights. Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger. 1869. 12°. Pp. xviii, 125. [With portrait of Taopi.]

White and Red ; a Narrative of Life among the North West Indians ; by Helen C. Weeks. With 8 illustrations by A. P. Close. N. Y. Published by Hurd & Houghton. 1869. 12°: pp. 266. [Originally printed in the Riverside Magazine.]

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Tah-koo Wah-kan ; or, the Gospel among the Dakotas ; by Stephen R. Riggs, A. M., Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. and author of the Dakota Grammar & Dictionary. With an Introduction by S. B. Treat, Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M. Boston ; Cong. Sabbath-School and Publishing Society. 1869. 12°: pp. 491. [3 illustrations.]

Reminiscences of Hole-in-the-Day (Elder and Younger;) Julius T. Clark ; and Rev. A. Brunson. Wisconsin Historical Collections. Vol. V, pages 378-409. [Madison. 1869. 8°.]

Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States : Collected and prepared by Henry R. Schoolcraft, LL. D. Illustrated by Seth Eastman, Capt. U. S. A. Pub- lished by Authority of Congress. Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1851-1857. 4°.

[This magnificent work contains hundreds of references, passim, to Minne- sota and her Indian Tribes, while the illustrations of Capt. Eastman almost wholly refer to this State, its Indian population, and its scenery. The fol- owing papers relate entirely to Minnesota:]

Vol. I. Geographical Memoranda respecting the Discovery of the Missis- sippi River, with a Map of its Source, pp. 133-149; Minnesota, pp. 181-192; Dacotahs of the Mississippi, by Dr. Thos. S. Williamson, pp. 247-256 ; Census of Dakotahs, p. 498.

Vol. II. The Dacotah Tribe, p. 37 ; Natural Caves in the Mississippi River banks in the Sioux Country, by I. N. Nicollet, p. 95.

Vol. III. Sioux, or Dakota proper, by P. Prescott, pp. 225-247; The Gods of the Dakotas, by Capt. S. Eastman, p. 485; The Giant's Feast and Dance, do. p. 487; Indian Population of the Upper Mississippi, 1806, by Lieut. Z. M. Pike, pp. 562-570; Sioux Population in 1836, pp. 612-615.

Vol. IV. Manners, Customs, and Opinions of the Dakotas, by P. Pres- cott, pp. 59-72; Demoniacal Observances of the Dakotahs, by Capt. Eastman, pp. 495-501 ; Bibliography of Dakota Books, p. 546 ; Power and Influence of Dakota Medicine Men, by Rev. G. H. Pond, pp. 635-655.

Vol. V. Education among the Dakotas, by Rev. S. R. Riggs, pp. 695-698 ; Sioux Population of the Seven Tribes in 1851, by P. Prescott, p. 101.

Vol. VI. War between the Chippewa and Sioux, p. 387; Cession of Terri- tory in Minnesota by the Chippewas, p. 482; Religion and Mytho- logical Opinions of the Mississippi Valley Tribes, p. 647.

" The Mound Builders, &c." By Geo. Gale.— See " Histori- cal, Descriptive," &c.

BIBLIOGRAPHY. 37

Perrot — Moeurs, Coutumes, Religion, &c., des Sauvages. — See " Early Explorations," &c.

Hennepin — do.

La Hontan — ao-

Carver's Travels. — See " Early Explorations," &c.

Tanner's Narrative of Captivity. — do.

Schoolcraft — " Personal Memoirs," etc. do.

DAKOTA BIBLIOGRAPHY.

In preparing this list of Dakota works, (all of which were written in Minnesota, for missions located in this State, and a number of which were also printed here,) I must acknowledge my obligation to Rev. S. R. Riggs, now of Ft. Wadsworth, D. T., who kindly revised the list, adding interesting notes, and inserting in the proper chronological order some titles not on our catalogue, at the same time presenting us with copies of the works, thus making our collection on this subject very complete.

Sioux Spelling Book, designed for the use of native learners. By Rev. J. D. Stevens, Missionary. 12°: pp. 22. Boston : Crocker and Brewster, for the A. B. C. F. M. 1836.

WicoNi OwiHANKE Wanin Tanin KIN. 1 2° : pp. 23. Boston : Crocker and Brewster, for the A. B. C. F. M. 1837.

[This little tract contains Dr. Watts' Second Catechism for Children, translated into the Dakota Language by Joseph Renville, Sen., and Dr. T. S. Williamson.]

The Dakota First Reading Book. By Gideon H. Pond and Stephen R. Riggs. 18^: pp. 50. Cincinnati, Ohio: Kendall and Henry, for the A. B. C. F. M. 1839.

Joseph Oyakapi kin. The Story of Joseph and his Brethren, translated from Genesis by Revs. Gideon H. and Samuel W. Pond. 18^ : pp. 40. Cincinnati : Kendall and Henry, for the A. B. C. F. M. 1839.

Extracts from Genesis and the Psalms : with the Third Chapter of Proverbs, and the Third Chapter of Daniel, in the Dakota Language. Translated from the French Bible as pub- lished by the Am. Bible Society, by Joseph Renville, Sr. Compared with other translations, and prepared for the press

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by Thomas S. Williamson, M. D., Missionary. Cincinnati : Kendall and Henry, for the A. B. C. F. M. 18° : pp. 72. 1839.

WoTANiN Waxte Markus Owa KIN. The Gospel according to Mark, in the Language of the Dakotas. Translated from the French by Joseph Renville, Sr. : written out and prepared for the press by Dr. Thomas S. Williamson, Missionary. Cincin- nati : Kendall and Henry, for the A. B. C. F. M. 18° : pp. 96. 1839.

Extracts from the Gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John, from the Acts of the Apostles, and from the First Epistle of John, in the Language of the Dakota or Sioux Indians. Translated from the French as published by the Am. Bible Society, by Joseph Renville, Sr. Written and prepared for the press by Thomas S. Williamson, M. D., Missionary. Cincinnati : Ken- dall and Henry. 18° : pp. 48. 1839.

WowAPi Mitawa : Tamakoce kaga. My Own Book. Pre- pared from Rev. T. H. Gallaudet's "Mother's Primer," and " Child's Picture Defining and Reading Book," in the Dakota Language. By S. R. Riggs, A. M., Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. Boston : Crocker and Brewster. Square 12° : pp. 64. 1842.

WowAPi Inonpa. The Second Dakota Reading Book. Con- sisting of Bible Stories from the Old Testament. By Rev. S. W. Pond. Boston : Crocker and Brewster, for the A. B. C. F. M. 18° : pp. 54. 1842.

Dakota Dowanpi kin. Dakota Hymns. Boston : Crocker

and Brewster, for the A. B. C. F. M. 18° : pp. 97. 1842.

[These Hymns were composed in the Dakota Language by Mr. Joseph Renville and sons, and the Missionaries of the Am. Board.— S. R. R.]

WoAHOPE Wikcemna KIN. (Sheet.) The Ten Command- ments and the Lord's Prayer, in the Dakota Language. Boston. 1842.

Eliza Makpi-cokawin, Raratonwan Oyato en Wapiye sa : qa Sara Warpanica qon. A narrative of pious Indian women. Prepared in Dakota by Mrs. M. A. C. Riggs. Boston : Crocker and Brewster, for the Am. Tract Society. 12° : pp. 12. 1842.

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WicoiCAGE WowAPi QA Odowan Wakan, ETC. The Book Of Genesis, a part of the Psalms, and the Gospels of Luke and John. Cmcinnati,Ohio : Kendall and Barnard, for the A B C F. M. 12°: pp. 295. 1842.

[These translations were made partly from the original Hebrew and Greek and partly from the French, by Dr. T. S. Williamson, Rev. G H Pond s r Riggs, and Joseph RenvlUe, Sen. 1-S. R. R.] '

Jesus Ohnihdewicaye cin Aranyanpi qon; qa Palos Wowapi kage ciqon ; nakun, Jan Woyake ciqon dena cepi. Tamakoce okaga. The Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles of Paul J with the Revelation of John ; in the Dakota Language. Translated from the Greek, by Stephen R. Riggs, A. M. Published by the Am. Bible Society. Cincinnati : Kendall and Barnard. 12° : pp. 228. 1843.

Dakota Wiwangapi Wowapi. Catechism in the Dakota or Sioux Language. By Rev. S. W. Pond, Misssionary of the A. B. C. F. M. New Haven, Conn. : Printed by Hitchcock and Stafford. 12°: pp.12. 1844.

Dakota Tawoonspe. Wowapi I. Tamakoce kaga. Dakota Lessons. Book I. By S. R. Riggs, A. M., Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. Louisville, Ky. : Morton and Griswold. Square 12°: pp. 48. 1850.^

Dakota Tawoonspe. Wowapi II. Dakota Lessons. Book II. By S. R. Riggs, Missionary, etc. Louisville, Ky. : Morton and Griswold. Square 12°: pp. 48. 1850.^

Dakota Tawaxitku Kin. The Dakota Friend, a small monthly paper in Dakota and English, published at Saint Paul by the Dakota Mission. Rev. G. H. Pond, Editor. 1850-2.

[In all, 20 numbers were published. The first 12 (Vol. I) were in a small three column size. The second volume was enlarged to four columns. The first number was issued in Nov. 1850. It is asserted that there is but one other instance known of a periodical being published in an American aboriginal tongue, viz., among the Cherokees.— W.]

1. Mr. Renville died at Lac qui Parle in 1846. Notices of him maybe found in Rev. E. D. Neill's History of Minnesota, and also in "The Gospel among the Dakotas" by S. R. Riggs.

2. The printing of these two little books was superintended by Kev Robert Hopkins, who was drowned at Traverse des Sioux on the 4th of July, 1851.

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Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language, collected by the members of the Dakota Mission. By Rev. S. R. Riggs, A. M., Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. Under the patronage of the Historical Society of Minnesota. Printed by R. Craighead, 53 Vesey Street, New York, 1852 ; for the Smithsonian lusti- tution, Washington City. 4° : pp. 34 ; 338.

An English and Dakota Vocabulary. By Mrs. M. A. C.

Riggs. 8° : pp. 120. 1852. [This material is included in the larger work, put in this smaller form for the use of Dakota schools.]

[Having lived twenty-eight years in Minnesota, twenty-five of 'which was among the Dakotas, Mrs. Riggs died in Beloit, Wis., March 22, 1869.1

Dakota Odowan. Hymns in the Dakota Language with Tunes. Edited by S. R. Riggs, Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. Published by the American Tract Society, New York. 1855. W: pp. 127.

The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan ; in the Dakota language ; translated by Stephen R. Riggs, A. M., Missionary of A. B. C. F. M.. Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau Street, New York. 18° : pp. 264. 1857.

[A second edition has been printed. From this on, our books have been nearly all stereotyped.— S. R. R.]

The Constitution of Minnesota, in the Dakota language ; translated by Stephen R. Riggs, A. M. By order of the Hazlewood Republic. Boston : Press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 42 Congress Street. 12° : pp. 36. 1858.

WowAPi NiTAWA. Your own Book. A Dakota Primer for schools. By S. R. Riggs. Square 12° : pp. 32. Minneapolis. 1863.

Dakota Odowan. Hymns in the Dakota Language. Edit- ^ ed by Stephen R. Riggs and John P. Williamson, Missionaries of the A. B. C. F. M. Published by the American Tract So- ciety, New York. 1863. 18° : pp. 162.

[This book is electrotyped. Four editions have been printed. To the last, published in 1869, twenty pages of new matter were added. The book now

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has pp. 182, and contains 170 Hymns and Chants. The initials of the authors areappended— "Mr. R.," "J.R.," "A.R.," "T.S. W.," "G.H.P.""S W P.," "J. P. W.," "A. W. H.," " L. L." and " A. D. F."]l

Dakota Wiwicawangapi kin. Dakota Catechism. Prepared from the Assembly's Shorter Catechism. By S. R. Riggs, Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. Published by the American Tract Society, New York. 24^ : pp. 36. 1864. [Two editions have been printed.]

WooNSPE Itakihna. Ehakeun okaga. " Precept upon Pre- cept," translated into the Dakota Language by John B. Ren- ville. Prepared for the press by S. R. Riggs. Published by the American Tract Society, Boston. 18° : pp. 228. 1864.

OowA Wowapi. The book of Letters ; an illustrated school book. By John P. Williamson, Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. Printed for the mission by the American Tract Society, New York. 12°; pp. 84. 1865.

Dakota Wowapi Wakan kin. JThe New Testament in the Dakota Language ; translated from the original Greek, by Ste- phen R. Riggs, A. M., Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. New York: American Bible Society. 16°: pp. 408. 1865.

WicoiCAGE Wowapi, Mowis owa: qa Wicoie Wakan kin, Solomon kaga. Pejihuta Wicashta Dakota iapi en kaga. The Books of Genesis and Proverbs in the Dakota Language ; translated from the original Hebrew, by Thomas S. Williamson, A. M., M. D. New York : American Bible Society. 1865. 16°: pp. 115.

Dakota A. B. C. Book. By S. R. Riggs. Chicago : Dean and Ottawary. Square 12° : pp. 40. 1866.

Dakota A. B. C. Wowapi kin. The Dakota Primer. By S. R. Riggs, Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. New York : Amer- ican Tract Society. Square 12° : pp. 64. 1868.

The Book of Psalms. Translated from the Hebrew into the

1 The iuitals "A. W. H. " and "A. D. F." stand for Amos W. Huggins and Autoine D. Freniere. The former was killed at his home at Lac-qui-Parle on tlie 19th of August, 1862, the second day of the outbreak. Notices of Mr. Hug- gins may be found in " The Gospel among the Dalcotas." Mr. Freniere, who was himself a haif-breed, was Icilled by hostile Indians, in the summer of 1863, as he descended the Missouri River in a canoe, alone.— S. R. R. 6

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Dakota language, by S. R. Riggs, Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. New York : American Bible Society. 16° : pp. 133. 1869.

The Books of Exodus and Leviticus. Translated from the Hebrew into the Dakota language, by T. S. Williamson, M. D., Missionary of A. B. C. F. M. New York : American Bible Society. 16° : pp. 65 and 47. 1869.

Wakantanka Ti Ki Canku. \^Patli to Heaven.'] By Rev. A. Ravoux. 2d edition. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Com- pany. 1863. 18°: pp. 88.

Calvary Wiwicawangapi Wow^api, &c. (Calvary Catechism in the Dakota language.) Translated for the Mission of St. John. Faribault, Minn. : Central Republican Office. 1864. 24° : pp. 50.

[By Rev. S. D. Hinman ?]

Ikce Wocekiye Wowapi. Qa Isantanka Makoce. Kin en Token Wohduze, qa okodakiciye Wakan en Tonakiya Woecon kin, hena de he Wowapi kin ee. Samuel Dutton Hinman, MissionarjT^ to Dakotas. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Compan}^ 1865. 12°: pp. 321.

[A translation of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.]

Odowan. \_Hymns.'] Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, Printers. 1869. 24° : pp. 26.

[By Rev. S. D. Hinman?]

BIOGRAPHICAL.

Della Vita E Degli Scritti di Costantino Beltrami da Ber- gamo. Scropritore delle Fonti del Missisipi, di Gabriele Rosa. Bergamo, dalla Tipografia Pagnoncelli : 1861. 12°: pp. 34.

Costantino Beltraaii da Bergamo. Notizie e Lettere pub- blicate per cura del Municipio di Bergamo, e dedicate alia Societa' Storica di Minnesota. Bergamo, dalla Tipografia Pagnoncelli. 1865. 8°: pp.134. [Photo, of Beltrami.]

Serving our Generation. A Discourse Commemorative of

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the Life Work of John D. Ford, M. D. Delivered in the First Baptist Church, Winona, Nov. 3,1867. By Rev." George M. Stone. Winona: Green & Gile, Printers. 1867. 12°: pp. 18. [Photographic portrait.]

The Poets and Poetry of Minnesota— See '' Poetical and Literary."

Tanner, John — See Tanner's Captivity.

Taopi (or " Wounded Man")— See ''The Indian Tribes," &c.

Sketch op J. N. Nicollet— See vol. I, Hist. Soc. Coll.

Sketch op Joseph Renville — See do. do.

Sketch of J. M. Goodhue — See do. do.

Sketch of Constantine Beltrami — See Vol. II, Hist. Soc. Collections.

Sketch op Carver — See Carver Centenarj-.

MILITARY.

Correspondence on the Occasion of the Presentation by Major Gen. Sanford, United States Minister, Resident at the Court of Brussels, of a Battery of Steel Cannon, to the State of Minnesota, for the use of the First Minnesota Regiment of Volunteers. St. Paul: Press Printing Company. 1862. 8°: pp. 12.

[War Record op Minnesota.] Annual Report of the Adju- tant General of the State of Minnesota for the year ending Dec. 1, 1866, and of the Military Forces of the State, from 1861 to 1866. Saint Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1866. 8° : pp. 805.

History of the Third Regiment Infantry Minnesota Vol- unteers, with the Final Record of the Original Regiment. Com- piled by C. W. Lombard. Faribault: Central Republican Office. 1869. Pp. 16.

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MASONIC.

By-Laws of St. Paul Lodge No. 1, of Free and Accepted

Masons ; and of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. Adopted 1849.

St. Paul: Printed by J. A. Aitkenside. 1849. 16^: pp. 36.

[Contains a brief History of the establishment of the Order in this State.]

Installation Address to St. Paul Lodge No. 3, by Brother A. C. Smith, P. M., delivered on the evening of Dec. 22, 1857, the 237th Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims. Print- ed by order of the Lodge. St. Paul : Pioneer & Democrat Office. 8° : pp. 10.

Public Celebration of St. John the Baptist's Day, by Winona Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M. Dedication of their Hall and Address, by the M.-. W.-. A. T. C. Pierson, O.-. M.*., at Winona, June 24, 1863. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Com- pany. 1863. 8°: pp. 19.

Public Installation of the Officers of Hennepin Lodge No. 4, A. F. & A. M., at Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 27, 1862, and Address by the M.-. W.-. A. T. C. Pierson, G.\ M.-. St. Paul: Pioneer Printing Company. 1863. 8°: pp.19.

Proceedings of the Grand Lodge ©f Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Minnesota, at its Grand Annual Communica- tions in the City of St. Paul ; from Februar^^ 25, A.*. L.-. 5853, to January 14, A.-. L.*. 5869. St. Paul : Pioneer Book and Job Printing Company. 1869. 8° : pp. 695.

Ceremonial for a Lodge of Sorrow. Compiled and Ar- ranged by A. T. C. Pierson, 33, for Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 5, at the request of H. L. Carver, W.-. M.*. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1869. 12° : pp. 19.

RAILROADS. The Railroad System of the State of Minnesota, with its Connections. By James W. Taylor. Reported to the Com- mon Council of the City of St. Paul, March 31, 1859, in pursu- ance of a Resolution of the City Council. 1,000 copies ordered

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printed by the St. Paul Common Council. St. Paul : Geo. W. Moore, City Printer. 1859. 8° : pp. 22.

An Act Proposing a Loan of State Credit to the Land Grant Railroad Companies ; with arguments in favor of its Approval by the Feople. St. Paul : Pioneer and Democrat Office. 8° : pp. 32.

Issue of Minnesota State Bonds to Land Grant Railroads. St. Paul : Pioneer and Democrat Office. 1858. 8° : pp. 8.

In Supreme Court of the United States, December Term, 1855. The United States vs. the Minnesota and North Western Railroad Company. Motion for the United States. C. push- ing, Attorney General. 8°: pp. 11.

Memorial of the Minnesota and North Western Railroad Company to His Excellency James Buchanan, President of the United States. 1857. New York: 8°: pp. 12.

Charter, By-Laws and Rules and Regulations of the Minne- apolis and Cedar Valley Railroad Company. Adopted by the Board of Directors at a Session held at Northfield, July 9, 1857. St. Paul : Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 1857.

First Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Minnesota Central Railway Company ; with the Report of the Chief Engineer and Superintendent; also, a Compilation of Acts of the Legislature, and of Congress, relating to the same. January 1, 1866. Minneapolis: 1866. 8°: pp. 88.

An Act to Incorporate the Nininger and St. Peter Western Railroad Company. Approved March 4, 1857. St. Paul : Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 1857. 8° : pp. 13.

The Minnesota Valley Railroad Company, St. Paul, Min- nesota. Organized March 16, 1864. Grants of Land, Char- ter and Laws upon which the organization is based. St. Paul : Pioneer Office. 1866. 8° : pp. 46.

Trust Deed, Securing the First Mortgage Bonds, with Plan of Preferred Stock, First and Second Issue. Minnesota Valley Railroad Company, St. Paul, June, 1867. Ramaley & Hall, Printers. 8° : pp. 39.

The Minnesota Valley Railroad, forming Part of the Ex-

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tension of the Union Pacific Railroad, via Sioux City and St. Paul, to Lake Superior. Its Construction and Resources. Office, St. Paul, Minnesota. New York : 1868. 8° : pp. 8. [Map.]

Agreement and M6rtgage of St. Paul and Sioux City Rail- road Company, Securing Special Stock. St. Paul : Dispatch Printing Company. 8°: pp.16, [ti. d.]

Grant of Lands to the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Com- pany, and others, together with Act of Congress in Relation to the Same. St. Paul : Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 1857. 8° : pp. 27.

Do. Do. The Acceptance of the Grant, and By-Laws

of the Company. St. Paul : Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 1857. 8°: pp.39.

First Report of the Officers of the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company. Presented January 12, 1858. St. Paul: Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 8° : pp. 20.

First Division of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Com- pany, St. Paul, Minn. Organized February 6, 1864. Grants of Land, Charter, Agreement and Proceedings upon which the Organization is based. New York : 1865. 8° : pp. 88. [Map.]

Rapport van den Ingenieur, J. H. Kloos, omtrent den St. Paul-en Pacific Spoorweg, en de waarde der Landerijen, uit- makende het onderpand der 7 pCt Obligatien. [Printed at Amsterdam, 1866.] 8° : pp. 14.

The First Division of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. Main Line, from St. Anthony to Breckenridge. Organized February 6, 1864. Grants of Land, Charter, &c. St. Paul : 1868. 8° : pp. 84.

Guide to the Lands of the First Division of the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. Main and Branch Lines, &c. St. Paul, Minnesota : Pioneer Printing Company. 1868. 8° : pp. 25. [Numerous Maps.]

A Guide to the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Lands : Winona, Minn. 1865. Milwaukee : Sentinel Printing House. 8°: pp. 11.

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Southern Minnesota Railroad Company. Prospectus, with Charter, Land Grants, Map, Statistics, etc. New York: Brown & Hewitt, Printers, 3? Park Row. 1865. 8°: pp. 78 [Map.]

Do. Another edition : 1868. pp. 32. [Map.]

Prospectus of the Southern Minnesota Railroad. Maps and Statistics. * * New York : Brown & Hewitt, Printers, 30 Frankfort street. 1869. 8° : pp. 20. [Maps.]

Statement of the St. Paul and Chicago Railway Company. Respecting the issue of its First Mortgage Land Grant Sinking Fund Bonds, &c. St. Paul : Ramaley & Hall, Commercial Office. 1867. 8° : pp. 15. [Map.]

Circular of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway Company. [N. Y., 1869.] 8°: pp. 36. [Map.]

An Act to Incorporate the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company, approved March 8, 1861. Also, An Amendment, approved March 6, 1863. St. Paul : Press Print- ing Company. 1863. 8° : pp. 15.

State and Congressional Legislation relating to the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company. St. Paul : Press Print. 1864. 8° : pp. 33.

Do. With report of the Engineer, pp. 33.

Legislation Relating to the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company. Printed by D. Ramaley. St. Paul : 1864. 8° : pp. 24.

Report of the Engineer of the Lake Superior and Missis- sippi Railroad Co. St. Paul : Press Print. 1864. 8° : pp. 7.

The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, Connecting the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers and the Railroad System of Minnesota and California with Lake Superior. St. Paul : Press Printing Company. 1864. 8°: pp.11.

Do. Another edition, with Map. pp.56. Presa Print- ing Company. 1866.

Do. Another edition, [no imprint.] pp. 71. [Map.]

Do. Another edition. Press Prniting Company. 1868.

pp. 76. [Map.]

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Pacific Railroad Surveys. Letter from the Secretary of War, [Jeff. Davis] transmitting Reports of Surveys, &c., of Railroad Routes to the Pacific 0(!ean. [House of Reps. Ex. Doc. No. 46, 33d Cong., 1st sessioll| February 6, 1854.] 8° : pp. 118.

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the direc- tion of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4, according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853 ; May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854. [Thirteen Volumes, quarto.] Washington: 1855-60.

single papers.

1. Route near the 47th and 49th Paralells of North Latitude. Vol. 1. pp.

39-55.

2. Synopsis of a report of the Reconnoisance of a Railroad Route from

PugetSound via South Pass to the Mississippi River. By Fred. W. Lander, Civil Engineer. Washington, D. C 1856. pp.45. Vol.11. Volume Xll, Parts I and II, are xoholly devoted to the Northern Boute^ viz : Part I. 1. Narrative and final Report of Exploration for a Route for a Pa- cific Railroad near the 47th and 49th paralells of North Latitude, from St. Paul to Puget Sound, by Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory. 1855. pp. 358:41. [2 Maps. 1 Profile, 70 Engravings.] Part II. 2. Botanical Report, pp. 7-76 ; 6 plates. 3 ; Zoological Report ; pp. 1-399. Plates 76.

The Great Commercial Prize, addressed to every American who values the prosperity of his country. By Charles C. CoflSn, a member of the Boston Press. Boston : A. Williams & Co., 100 Washington street. 1858. 8° : pp. 23.

Speech of Hon. James Shields, of Minnesota, on the Pacific Railroad Bill ; delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 7, 1859. Washington : 1859. 8° : pp. 6.

Pacific Railroad. Minority Report, of Hon. C. Aldrich, from the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, submitting considerations in favor of the Northern Route. House Doc. No. 428, 36th Cong., 1st Sess., April 16, 1860. 8° : pp. 9.

Pacific Railroad — Northern Route. Letter of Hon. Isaac I. Stevens, Delegate from Washington Territory, to the Rail- road Convention of Washington and Oregon, called to meet at Vancouver, W. T., May 20, 1860. Washington : T. McGill, Printer. 1860. 8° : pp. 24.

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Policy for the man- agement of its affairs, adopted by the Board of Directors, Jan. 11, 1865. 8° : pp. 4. [No imprint.]

Boston Board of Trade. Report on the Northern Pacific Railroad, made to the Government of the Board, and unani- mously adopted, November 27, 1865. Boston: 1865. 8°: pp. 22.

Northern Pacific Railroad. Memorial of the Board of Direction of the Company, with communications from Lieut. Gen. Grant, Br. Maj. Gen. Meigs, Q. M. G. ; and Brv. Maj. Gen. Ingalls, A. Q. M. ; and Report of the Engineer in Chief. Nov., 1867. [Senate Mis. Doc. No. 9, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., Dec. 17, 1867.] 8°: pp. 39. [Map.]

Same ; another edition. Case, Lockwood & Co., Hart-

ford : pp. 56. [2 Maps.]

Northern Pacific Railroad. Statement of its Resources and Merits, as presented to the Pacific Railroad Committee of Congress, H. R., by Hon. J. Gregory Smith, Hon. R. D. Rice, of Maine ; Hon. Wm. B. Ogden, of Chicago ; Gov, Marshall, of Minn., and Edwin F. Johnson, Civ. Eng., March, 1868. Washington : Intelligencer Pr. House. 8° : pp. 24.

Letter upon the Agricultural and Mineral Resources of the North-Western Territories, on the Route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. By Philip Ritz, of Walla Walla. Chronicle Print, Washington, D. C. [1868.] 8° : pp. 8.

The Northern Pacific Railway ; its eflfect upon the Public Credit, the Public Revenues, and the Public Debt. Speech of Hon. William Windom, of Minnesota, delivered in the House of Representatives, January 5, 1869. Washington : Gibson Brothers, Printers. 1869. 8° : pp. 60.

The Policy of Extending Government Aid to additional Railroads to the Pacific, by Guaranteeing interest on their Bonds. Report of the Majority of the Senate Committee on Pacific Railroad. February 19, 1869. [Senate Doc. No. 219, 40th Cong., 3d Session.] 8° : pp. 31.

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Northern Pacific Railroad. Report of Edwin F. Johnson, Engineer in Chief, to the Board of Directors. April, 1869. Hartford: 1869. 8° : pp. 78. [6 maps,']

SOCIETIES AND CONVENTIONS. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Proceedings of the R. W. Grand Lodge of Minnesota. 1854 to 1869. 8° : pp. 528. '

Journal of the Second Sitting of the Third House of Sover- eigns. Saturday Evening, Feb. 16, 1856. Sol. Smith, Printer to the " Sovereigns." 8° : pp. 15.

Do. Third Session. Printed at the expense of the

Sovereigns : 1860. 8° : pp. 24.

Reports of the Agricultural and Mechanical Club of the Minnesota Legislature, held at the State House, St. Paul, dur- ing the Winter of 1859-60. Minneapolis : Hyde & Williams, Minnesota Beaeon Office. 8° : pp. 32.

Third Annual Fair of the Hennepin County Agricultural Society, to be held at Minneapolis, Sept. 26, 27 and 28, 1865. Atlas Printing Company, Minneapolis, Minn. : 1865. 8° : pp. 15.

Fourth Annual Fair, do. 1866. Pp. 21.

Premium List and Rules and Regulations of the 8th Annual Fair of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society, to be held at the Fair Ground in Rochester, on the 2d, 3d, 4th and 5th of October, 1866. Atlas Printing Company, Minneapolis : 1866. 8° : pp. 35.

Do. 10th Annual Fair, at Minneapolis, 1868. Pp. 31.

Do. 11th " " at Rochester, 1869. Pp.31.

Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Editors' and Publishers' Association, held at St. Paul, Febru- ary 20 and 21, 1867. 12° : pp. 21.

-^ Do. For 1868. 8° : pp. 22.

Do. For 1869. 8° : pp. 36.

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Proceedings op the Convention of Colored Citizens of the State of Minnesota, in Celebration of the Anniversary of Eman- cipation, and the Reception of the Electoral Franchise, on the First of January, 1869. St. Paul : Press Print. 1869. 8° : pp. 31.

Transactions of the Minnesota State Medical Society. St. Paul: Pioneer Book and Job Printing Company. 1870. 8°: pp. 46.

SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CATALOGUES. Catalogues of the Baldwin School and the Academic De- partment of the College of St. Paul, Minnesota, mdcccliv. St. Paul : Printed at the Minnesotian Office. 1854. 8° : pp. 15.

Addresses at Dedication op Baldwin School : see " Saint Paul."

Circular and Catalogue of the Saint Paul Female Semi- nary, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 1858-1861. St. Paul : Pioneer Print. 1861. 8°: pp. 12.

Do. For 1862-1864. Printed by F. Somers, New

York. Pp. 16.

First Annual Catalogue of the Preparatory Department of the Hamline University, Red Wing, Minn., Aug., 1855. Red Wing: Meritt & Hutchins, Printers. 1855. 8°: pp. 17.

Biennial Catalogue of Hamline University, for the Collegi- ate Year 1859-60. Red Wing, Minnesota : Hubbard & Davis, Printers. 1860. 8° : pp. 20.

Catalogue for year ending June, 1863. 8° : pp. 24.

Do. For year ending June, 1866. 8° : pp. 31.

" Hamline University Magazine :" see " Magazines."'

Catalogue op the Officers and Students of the Minnesota Seminary, Wasioja, Dodge Co. Wasioja : " Minnesota Free Will Baptist" Office. 1861. 8°: pp.24.

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First Annual Circular and Catai<ogue of the Sigourney Boarding School, St. Anthony, Minnesota. 1860-61. St. Anthony: Thomas & Clarke, Printers. 1861.

First Annual Eegister of the Minnesota State Normal School, at Winona, for the Academical year 1866-67. Wi- nona, September, 1867 : Republican Print. 8° : pp. 22.

University of Minnesota. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Preparatory Department, with a Statement of the Courses of Instruction, 1867-8, St. Anthony. Aug., 1868. Published by the University. Minneapolis : Tribune Print. 8° : pp. 20.

Report of the Committee on Organization, made to the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, May 7, 1869. Published by the Board. Minneapolis : Tribune Printing Co. 1869. 8° : pp. 38.

Annual Catalogues and Circulars of the Shattuck Gram- mar School, Faribault, Minn. Faribault : Central Republican Office. 12=^. 1866-1869.

Catalogue of the Instructors and Members of the State Teachers' Institute, Minnesota. [From March 29, to May 11, 1868.] Republican Printing House, Winona. 1868. 8° : pp. 21.

Do. 1868. 8°: pp. 34.

The First Annual Catalogue of Northfield College, North- field, Minn., July, 1868. H. A. Kimball, Printer. 8° : pp. 12.

Catalogue of the Schools of the Bishop Seabury Mission, 1865-6, Faribault, Minn. Central Republican Office. 1866. 8° : pp. 28.

Diocese of Minnesota. Saint Mary's Hall Register, Fari- bault. Faribault: Central Republican Office. 12°. 1867 to 1869. v. d.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

58

CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS. Minutes of the Minnesota Baptist Association. 1852-1869.

12°. V. d.

Do. Minnesota Central Baptist Association. 1858-

1869. 12°. V, d.

Do. Anniversaries of the Minnesota Baptist State

Convention. 1859-1869. 8°. v. d.

Do. ^Northern Baptist Association. 1861-1869. 8°.

V, d.

V. d.

Do. Zumbro Baptist Association. 1861-1869. 8°.

Do. Minnesota Valley Baptist Association. 1859-

1869. 12°. V, d.

Do. Southern Minnesota Baptist Association. 1855-

1869. 8°. V. d.

Do. Crow River Baptist Association. 1868-1869.

12°. V. d.

Minutes of the Minnesota Annual Conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. 1856-1869. 8°. v, d.

Minutes of the Annual Sessions of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Minnesota. 1856-1869. 8°. V. d.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Annual Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Minnesota. 1856-1869. 8°. v. d.

Record of the Organization and First Session of the Synod of Minnesota, with the Opening Discourse, by the Rev. Thos. S. Williamson, M. D. St. Paul: Daily Minnesotian Print. 1858. 8°: pp. 14.

A Hand Book for the Presbyterian Church in Minnesota, designed to promote order in, and love for the Sanctuary. Prepared by Edward D. Neill. Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead. 1856. 24°: pp. 72.

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Manual of the First Presbyterian Church of Red Wing, Minn., with a Brief Historical Sketch. Red Wing : Republican Office. 1868. 24° : pp. 38.

Parish Manual of the Church of Gethsemane, Minneapolis, Minn. ; Organized A. D. 1856. Minneapolis : 1869. pp. 18.

A Memorial to the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota Church Foundation, with additions and an appendix. Contain- ing the Charter and By-Laws of the Board, and the Charter of " Christ Church Orphans' Home and Hospital for Minnesota." By the Rev. J. V. Van Ingen, D. D. St. Paul : Pioneer Print- ing Co. 1860. 8° : pp. 34.

Mission Paper of the Bishop Seabury Mission. Numbers 1 to 37. 8°. Faribault, v. cL

Eleventh Anniversary of the Minnesota Bible Society, held in the First Presbyterian Church, St. ^Paul, June 8, 1862, TJ p. M. St. Paul : Press Printing Co. 1862. 8° : pp. 7.

Fourteenth do. ; with its Constitution, List of Officers, and Local Agents of Auxiliaries. St. Paul, Minn., June, 1864. David Ramaley, Printer. 8° ; pp. 32.

Annual Report of the State Central Committee to the Minnesota Sabbath-School Association, assembled in Conven- tion at Hastings, June 26, 1866. 8° : pp. 14.

Do. Rochester, June 18, 1867. Pp. 15.

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of the Minne- sota State Sabbath-School Association, held at Faribault, June 16, 17, and 18, 1868. Published for the Association. 1868. 8° : pp. 72.

Proceedings of the Minnesota Universalist Sunday-School State Convention, including the articles of Incorporation and Constitution of the Convention, &c. First Annual Session. Held at Minneapolis, Sept. 1st and 2d, 1869. St. Paul : 1869. 8° : pp. 18.

First Annual Report and Constitution of the Brotherhood of the Parish of the Good Shepherd, Faribault, Minn. Pub- lished by the Brotherhood. Central Republican Office. 1870. 12° : pp. 16.

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The Papal Encyclical. A Pastoral Letter: see "Ser- mons," &c.

Historical Sketch of Westminster Presb. Church : see " Sermons," &c.

Manual op First Baptist Church, St. Paul : see "St. Paul."

Gospel among the Dakotas : see " Indian Tribes of Minne- sota."

SERMONS AND RELIGIOUS ESSAYS.

The Political Character and Tendencies of Romanism: being the substance of a Discourse delivered in Galena in 1852, by Rev. M. Sorin, Red Wing, Minn. Ter. 1854.

The True Thanksgiving ; and True Manhood : Two Ser- mons, by H. M. Nichols, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater, Minn. Van Vorhes & Easton, Printers.

1858. 12°: pp.40.

[Rev. Mr. Nichols was drowned July, 1860, at Lake Harriet, near Minne- apolis.]

MiCHAL ; OR Fashionable Dancing, an Undignified Amuse- ment for a Christian. The sixth of a Series of Evening Lec- tures on the Life of David, at the Chapel of the House of Hope, St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 6, 1859, by Edward D. Neill. St. Paul :

1859. 12°: pp. 18.

Children, and the Childhood of Jesus. Sermon occasion- ed by the Death of Willie Young : Preached in the Jackson Street Methodist Church, on Sabbath afternoon, Feb. 27, 1859, by Rev. J. D. Pope, Pastor of the First Baptist Church. Pub- lished by the Family for Private Distribution. St. Paul : Min- nesotian Office. 1859. 8^ : pp. 12.

Congregationalism. A Sunday Morning Discourse, in the Plymouth Church of St. Paul, March 20, 1859. By Burdett Hart. St. Paul ; T. M. Newson, Printer. . 1859 : 8° ; pp. 18.

Blood, the Price of Redemption. A Thanksgiving Dis-

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course, delivered in the House of Hope, Nov. 27, 1862, by Rev. Frederic A. Noble, Pastor. St. Paul: Press Printing Co. 1862. 8°: pp. 21.

The Fall of Sumpter : Its Intent and Portent. An Ad- dress given at Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Sunday evening, April 12, 1863, the Anniversary of the Attack on Fort Sumpter. By Rev. S. Hawley. St. Paul: Press Printing Co. 1863. 8° : pp. 18.

The Final Salvation of all Mankind, clearly demonstrated by the united Voice of Reason and Revelation. By Rev. Dol- phus Skinner, D. D. Fourth Edition. Minneapolis : Atlas Pr. Co. 1864. 8°: pp. 31.

The Assured and Glorious Future of the Nation. A Thanksgiving Discourse, delivered in the House of Hope, Nov. 24, 1864, by Rev. Frederic A. Noble. St. Paul, Minnesota. " Ye shall be as the Wings of a Dove Covered with Silver." St. Paul : David Ramaley, PHnter. 1864. 8° : pp. 28.

A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of the First Presbyte- rian Church, Mankato, Minn., Sept. 7, 1865, by the Pastor, Rev. Thomas Marshall. New York : Anson D. F. Randolph. 1866. 8° : pp. 23.

The Papal Encyclical, by the Rev. Thomas L. Grace, Bishop of St. Paul. Being a Pastoral Letter to the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese, on occasion of the Publication of the Jubilee. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1865. 8° : pp. 29.

Methodism: Its Development and the Chief Causes of its success. A Centenary Sermon, preached Sept. 21, 1866, before the Minnesota Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. By Rev. Jabez Brooks, A. M., President of Hamline University. Published by request of the Conference. St. Paul : Press Printing Co. 1866. 8° : pp. 24.

Christian Amusements. A Discourse delivered Feb. 11, 1866, at the Annual Meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association of Saint Paul, by Rev. Edwin Sidney Williams. St. Paul : Davidson & Hall, Pioneer Office. 1866. 8° : pp. 31 .

Address to the Tenth Annual Convention of the Diocese

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of Minnesota, by Rt. Rev. Henry Benj. Whipple, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese. June 12, A. D. 1867. St. Paul: Ramaley & Hall. 1867. 8^: pp. 20.

Christ, not Self, the Burden or Christian Preaching and Living. A Sermon preached in St. John's Church, St. Cloud, Minn., Sept. 8, 1867, by Rev. George L. Chase, on resigning the Rectorship of the Parish. Published by request. St. Cloud, Minn. : Printed by A. J. Reed. 1867. 8° : pp. 14.

A Review of a Sermon on the Immortality of the Soul, preached by W. B. Dada, before the Young Men's Christian Association in Lake City, April 18, 1869, by A. G. Hudson. Lake City : Leader Office. 1869. 8° : pp. 18.

Universalism Unmasked. A Sermon delivered by Rev. J. B. Tuttle, pastor of the Baptist Church of Anoka, Minnesota, on the evening^f Feb. 14, 1869. Press Print. 8° : pp. 14.

Historical Sketch of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis, Minn., [a Sermon,] by Rev. Robert F. Sample, Pastor. Philadelphia : Printed by Alfred Martin. 1869. 8° : pp. 40.

Natural Religion. By Rev. Herman Bisbee. A Sermon delivered at Pence Opera House, Minneapolis, Minn., March 27, 1870. 8° : pp. 8. [No imprint.]

Harmony of Gospel History. See " Poetical and Literary."

Serving our Generation. A Sermon, &c. See '' Biograph- ical."

*

Anniversary Sermon of First Baptist Church, St. Paul. See " Saint Paul." Hand Book of PRESBriERiAN Church. See "Churches," &c.

Mission Papers of Bp. Seabury Mission. See " Churches," &c.

Synod of Minnesota. Discourse by Rev. T. S. Williamson. See "Churches," &c.

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OKATIONS AND ADDKESSES. Address delivered by Ex-Governor Alexander Ramsey, Pres ident of the Minnesota Territorial Agricultural Society, on the occasion of the Second Annual Territorial Fair, held at Minne- apolis, on the 8th, 9th and 10th of October, 1856. St. Paul : Minnesotian Office. 1857. 8° : pp. 22.

Education in its Relations to Civilization. An Address delivered before the Convention of Superintendents at Winona, Minn., on June 28, 1865. By Wm. F. Phelps, A. M., Princi- pal of the State Normal School. 1865. Republican Print, Winona. 8° : pp. 34.

The Problem op American Destiny. An Oration. Deliver- ed at a Celebration of the Grand Army of the Republic of the State of Minnesota, at Owatonna, July 4th, 1868. By Capt. Henry A. Castle, of St. Paul. Published by order of the G. A. R., Dept. of Minn. St. Paul : Office of the Press Printing Company. 1868. 8°: pp. 12.

Oration delivered at Alexandria, Douglas Co., Minn., July 4, 1868, by Hon. H. L. Gordon, of St. Cloud. Ramaley & Hall. Dispatch Office. 8°: pp.16.

Addresses at the Inauguration of Wm. W. Folwell, as Pres- ident of the University of Minnesota, Wednesday, December 22, 1869. For the University. Minneapolis : Tribune Print- ing Company. 1870. 8° : pp. 40.

Emigrant Route to California, by Col. Wm. H. Nobles. See " Relations of Minnesota to the Northwest."

Speech op Hon. James Shields on the Pacific R. R. bill. See " Railroads."

The Northern Pacific Railway. Speech of Hon. Wm. Windom. See " Railroads."

Early History op Hennepin County, by John H. Stevens. See " Town and County History."

Addresses at Dedication of Baldwin School. See '* St. Paul."

Masonic Installation and Dedication Addresses. See *' Masonic."

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Addresses Before the Historical Society. By E. D. Neill, Gen. J. H. Simpson. Hon. Alex. Ramsey, Rev. S. R. Riggs, Gen. H. H. Sibley, Hon. J. W. Lynd, Rev. J. Mattocks, and others. See Hist. Soc. Coll., Vols. I and II.

POETICAL AND LITERARY.

The Sonnets of Shakspeare : An Essay, by Ignatius Don- nelly, A. M. Printed for private distribution. Saint Paul: Geo. W. Moore, Minnesotian Office. 8^: pp. 16. [1858.]

The Poets and Poetry of Minnesota. Edited by Mrs. W. J. Arnold. Chicago: S. P. Rounds, Printer. 1864. 12°: pp. 336. [Portrait.'}

The Dalys of Dalystown. By Dillon O'Brien. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1866. 8° : pp. 518.

Manomin : A Rhythmical Romance of Minnesota, the Great Rebellion and the Minnesota Massacres. By Myron Coloney. St. Louis : Published by the Author. 1866. 12° : pp. xv, 297.

Harmony of the Gospel History, from Passion Week to Pentecost. By the Rev. Edward P. Gray. New York : H. B. Durand, 49 White Street. 1866. 8°: pp. 12.

Gedichte Vermischten Inhalts, von Albert Wolff. St. Paul, Minn. 1867. 24° : pp. 80. [Poems written in the German language.]

OssEO, THE Spectre Chieftain.^ A Poem. By Evender C. Kennedy. Leavenworth: Published by the Author. 1867. 12° : pp. 228.

1 [The scene of this Epicls laid on Lake Pepin. The author says in his preface: "I offer this, my first endeavor as an author, to the public, hoping it may be received with favor ; and will be content if I receive from my friends a kind thought In return for the many weary days and dreary nights I have spent trying to consummate this, my bloodless ambition. If I can be permitted to occupy the most secluded niche in the Temple of Calliope, and add but a single jewel to the casket of American Poetry, I will have gained the highest wish of my most ideal dreams. I entreat the favor of my many friends and fellow soldiers. I have a hope ; must it be a hope of despair ? I wait the revelations of the mysterious future."]

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New American Epic Poem on the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. By M. D. C. Luby. Saint Paul, Minn. : Daily Minnesota Volksblatt Print. 1868. 16°: pp. 253.

" Equal Rights." A Poetical Lecture. By Mrs. F. A. Logan, of New York. Price 20 cents. [St. Paul : Press Print. 1869.] 12°: pp. 22.

Minnesota ; Then and Now. By Mrs. Harriet E. Bishop. Saint Paul : D. D. Merrill, Randall & Co. 1869. [Inverse.^ 12°: pp. 100.

The Romance of Indian Life. See " The Indian Tribes of Minnesota."

A Summer in the Wilderness, &c. See " Early Explora- tions," &c. The Hamlink University Magazine. See '' Magazines."

MAGAZINES.

The Minnesota Farmer and Gardener. Edited by L. M. Ford and J. H. Stevens. St. Paul: Vol. L Nov. 1860 to Dec. 1861. 8°: pp.384.

The Hamline University Magazine. " Religio, Liiera, Li- bertas." Vol. 1, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 8°: pp. 24, 32, 32. Printed for the University by D. Ramaley. 1864-65.

The Minnesota Teacher and Journal of Education : * Or- gan of the Department of Public Instruction and State Teach- ers' Association. W. W. Payne, Editor and publisher, St. Paul. 8°. Vol. I, June, 1867, to Aug., 1868, 556 pages ; Vol. II, Sept., 1868, to Sept., 1869, 448 pages.

The Minnesota Monthly: A North Western Magazine. The Official Organ of the Patrons of Husbandry. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, etc. Edited by D. A. Robertson. Vol. I, Jan. to Dec, 1869. Pp. 444.

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SAINT PAUL.

Ordinances of the Town of Saint Paul, Minnesota. In force Jan. 25, 1852. Collated and Printed by Order of the President and Council of said Town. Saint Paul : D. A. Rob- ertson, Printer. 1852. 8° : pp. 24.

Addresses delivered at the Dedication of the Edifice of the Preparatory Department of the Baldwin School, Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory ; and Catalogue for 1853. Saint Paul : Owens & Moore, Printers. 1854. 8° : pp. 39.

Charter and Ordinances of the City of St. Paul. Minne- sotian Office. 1855. 8°: pp.111.

Do. 1858. Minnesotian Office. 8°: pp.250.

Do. 1863. Pioneer Office. 8°: pp.226.

Do. 1869. Pioneer Office. 8° : pp. 352.

Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of St. Paul for the years ending 1856 to 1870. 8°. v. d.

Do. General Index to. From 1854 to Jan. 19, 1858.

Prepared by I. V. D. Heard, under Resolution of the Common Council, &c. Saint Paul : Pioneer Printing Co. 1866. 8° : pp. 349.

Annual Report of the Public School System of the City of St. Paul ; with Rules and Regulations of the Board of Educa- tion, &c., &c. Saint Paul: 1856 to 1870. 12°. v. d.

Suggestions relative to the Sewerage and Street Grades of Saint Paul. ^By James Starkey.'] Saint Paul : Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers and Publishers, Pioneer and Democrat Office. 1857. 12° : pp. 24.

Finances of Ramsey County. Report of a Committee of Investigation. 500 copies ordered printed by the Board of Supervisors. 1858.

Grand Celebration in the City of Saint Paul, the Capital of the State of Minnesota, on the first of September, 1858, com- memorative of the successful laying and working of the Atlan- tic Telegraph Cable. Full Report of the Ceremonies, Proces-

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sions, Illumination and the Speeches of Ex-Governors Ramsey and Gorman. Published hy order of the City Council, as re- ported for the Daily Minnesotian, the official paper of the City, [by J. F. Williams.'\ St. Paul: Daily Minnesotian Print.

1858. 8°: pp. 22.

Manual of the First Baptist Church of Saint Paul, Minne- sota, 1857-8 ; with the Annual Sermon of the Pastor \_Rev. Jno. D. Pope.'] Published by the Members. Saint Paul: Printed by Geo. W. Moore, Minnesotian Office. 1859. 8°: pp. 16.

First Annual Report of the Treasurer of the Saint Paul Gas Light Company, to the Stockholders of the Company, to- gether with the Act of Incorporation and By-Laws. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1859. 8° : pp. 31.

Constitution and By-Laws, and Reading Room Regulations of the Saint Paul Mercantile Librarj- Association. Adopted September, 1857. Revised Jan., 1859. Incorporated Jan.,

1859. Saint Paul : Printed by Geo. W. Moore, Minnesotian Office. 1859. 8°: pp. 15.

Catalogue of the Sunday-School Library of the Central Presbyterian Church, Saint Paul. St. Paul : Pioneer Printing Co. 1858. 12°: pp. 20.

Catalogue of the St. Paul Library Association. 1864. St. Paul : Printed by D. Ramaley. 8° : pp. 79.

Do. 1868. Ramaley & Hall. 8° : pp. 99.

Saint Paul Street Railway Company. Charter and Cit}^ Ordinance. Saint Paul: Daily Minnesota Volksblatt Print. 1868. 8° : pp. 9.

The Early History of Saint Paul. Being a short sketch prepared for Bailey's Saint Paul Directory. Edition of 1867. [Separately printed.'] By J. Fletcher Williams, Secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minn. 1867. 8° : pp. 12. [2 cuts.]

Chamber of Commerce of the City of Saint Paul. Arti- cles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Officers, Committees and Mem-

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bers. Organized Jan. 10, 1867. St. Paul, Minnesota : Press Printing Company. 1867. 8° : pp. 18.

Do. First Annual Report, [By J. D. Ludden,} for

1867. J^t. Paul : Press Printing Company. 1868. 8°: pp.35.

Do. Second Annual Report, [By J. D. Ludden,'] made

Jan. 25, 1869. Also, Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Offi- cers, and List of Members. Saint Paul : Press Printing Co. 1869. 8°: pp.32.

Do. Third Annual Report. By Ossian E. Dodge,

Secretary. St. Paul : Press Printing Co. 1870. 8°: pp.51.

Business Directory for the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory. Aug. 1, 1856. Saint Paul: Goodrich & Somers, Printers, Pioneer and Democrat Office. 1856. 8° : pp. 76.

Saint Paul City Directory, for 1856-7. Published by Goodrich & Somers ; January, 1857. Saint Paul : Pioneer and Democrat Office. 1857. 12° : pp. 194. [Map of City, This book was compiled by Andrew Keiller.']

Commercial Advertiser Directory for the City of St. Paul, to which is added, a Business Directory, 1858-1859. Newson & Barton, Publishers. Saint Paul : Times Office. 1858. 8° : pp. 165.

A. Bailey's Saint Paul Directory, for 1863. Volume One. Saint Paul : A. Bailey, Publisher. 1863. 8° : pp. 170.

Saint Paul Directory for 1864. Including a complete Directory of the Citizens, a Business Directory, etc. Volume Two. Saint Paul: Grolf & Bailey, Publishers. 1864. 8°: pp. 170.

McClung's Saint Paul Directory, and Statistical Record, for 1866. Containing an Alphabetical List of Citizens in each Ward separately, etc. St. Paul : J. W. McClung, Publisher. 1866. 8° : pp. 284.

Saint Paul Directory for 1867. * * * Vol. 3. Saint Paul : Bailey & Wolfe, Publishers. 1867. 8° : pp. 287. Ketchum and Crawford's St. Paul Directory, for 1869.

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* * * Also, a complete Classified Business Directory, &c. St. Paul : Printed by the Press Printing Co. [1869.] 8° : pp. 271. [Map.]

Rice & Bell's First Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, &c., &c., in the City of Saint Paul, for 1869-70. Rice & Bell, Publishers, St. Paul. [1869.] 8°: pp. 300. [Map.]

Hand Book of Presbyterian Church. See " Churches," &c.

Christ's Church Orphan's Home. See " Churches," &c.

Installation Address to St. Paul Lodge, No. 3. See " Masonic."

Baldwin School, and Female Seminary Catalogues. See " Catalogues."

Carver Centenary. See Histor. Soc. Coll.

Memorial of Chamber of Commerce, &c. See " Relations of Minnesota to the North West."

Rise and Progress of Minnesota Territory. See " Histo- rical, Descriptive," &c.

Dakota Land ; or the Beauty of St. Paul. See '' Historical, Descriptive," &c.

STATE DOCUMENTS.

Journal of the Council of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota. 1849-1857. 8^. v. d.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Legisla- tive Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota. 1849-1857. 8°. V. d.

Acts, Joint Resolutions and Memorials passed by the Leg- islative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota. 1849-18 57. 8°. V. d.

Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention for the Territory of Minnesota, to form a State Constitution,

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etc. T. F. Andrews, Official Reporter t» the Convention. St. Paul : G. W. Moore, Printer. 1858. 8^ : pp. 624. IMe- publican Wing.^

The Debates and Proceedings of the Minnesota Constitu- tional Convention, including the Organic Act of the Territory, etc. Reported Officially by Francis H. Smith. Saint Paul : E. S. Goodrich, Territorial Printer. 1857. 8°: pp. 685. ^Democratic Wing.']

Journal of the Constitutional Coj^vention of the Territory of Minnesota, [^Democratic Wing,'] begun and held in the City of St. Paul, Capital of said Territory, on Monday, the 13th of July, 1857. St. Paul : Earle S. Goodrich, State Printer. 1857. 8° : pp. 208.

Journal of the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota. 1858-1870. 8°. v, d.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Minnesota. 1858-1870. 8°. v. d.

General and Special Laws of the State of Minnesota. 1858- 1870. 8°. V. d.

Executive Documents of the State of Minnesota. 1860- 1870. 8°. V. d.

The Legislative Manual, compiled for the use of the Mem- bers of the Legislature. Published by authority. 1860-1870.

V. d.

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Minnesota, for the year ending Dec. 1, 1866, and of the Mili- tary forces of the State from 1861 to 1866. Saint Paul : Pio- neer Printing Company. 1866. 8°: pp.805.

A Complete Compilation of the Laws of Minnesota, relat- ing to Township Organization, and the duties of Town Officers, etc. By Elijah M. Haines. Chicago : 1869. 8° : pp. 272.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota. 13 vols. 8°. St. Paul. 1858-1870. v. d.

— Harvey Officer, Reporter. Vols. I-IX.

— Wm. A. Spencer, Reporter. Vols. X-XIII.

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The Revised Statutes of the Territory of Minnesota, passed at the 2d session of the Legislative Assembly, com- mencing Jan. 1, 1851. Under the Supervision of M. S. Wilk- inson. Saint Paul : James M. Goodhue, Territorial Printer. Rl. 8° : pp. 734.

Do. Edition of 1859. Rl. 8°: pp. 1071. Pioneer

Printing Co., St. Paul. 1859.

Do. Revision of 1866. Rl. 8° : pp. 874. Davidson

&Hall. 1867.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES. Harpers' New Monthly Magazine. Vols. 1 to 38. New York.

PAPERS ON MINNESOTA.

VoL VII, p. 177. Sketches of the Upper Mississippi. Anon. " XIII, p. 665. A Visit to Red River. Anon. •' XVI, p. 443. The Upper Mississippi. Anon. " XVIII, p. 169. The People of the Red River. Anon. " do. p. 602. The Red River Trail. Anon. •• XIX, p. 37. The Red River Trail. Anon. " XXI, p. 289. To Red River and Beyond. By Manton Marble.

do. p. 581. " "

" XXII, p. 306. " " " " "

" XXVI, p. 186. Hole-in-the-Day. By I. G. Nicolay. " XXVII, p. 1. The Indian Massacres and War of 1862. Adrian J . Ebell. " XXVIII, p. 76. Overland from St. Paul to Lake Superior. Anon. " do. p. 190. The Wheat Fields of Minnesota. By G. W. Schatzel. •• XXXVI, p. 409. The Minnesota Pineries. By J. M. Tuttle.

COLLECTIONS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

VOLUME I.

1. Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society. Saint Paul: Printed by James M. Goodhue. 1850. 8°: pp.32.

Fap»r8. Preface ; Act of Incorporation ; Constitution and By-Laws, adopt- ed Jan. 14, 1850; List of Members; Annual Address by Rev. E. D. Neill, Jan. 1, 1850, Subject— "An Introductory Lecture upon the Subject of the French Voyageurs to this Territory during the Seventeenth Century." Description of Minnesota, by H. H. Sibley ; Table of Distances in the Territory.

2. Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society, for the year A. D. 1850-1 ; comprising an address by the President,

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the Annual Report by the Secretary, two papers by Rev. S. R. Riggs, &c., &c. St. Paul : D. A. Robertson, Printer. 1851. 8<^ : pp. 184.

Papers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, Jan. 13, 1851; Address of Gov. A. Ramsey, President of the Society ; First Annual Report of C. K. Smith, Secretary of the Society, with appendices ; Speech of Henry H. Sibley, of Minnesota, before the Com. on Elections of the House of Representatives, Dec. 22, 1848; List of the Executive and Judicial Officers of the Territory, and Members of, the First Leglature ; Titles of Acts passed at the First Session of the Legislature ; List of Officers appointed by the Governor of said Territory; Do. of the different counties ; Time of holding the Courts of Minnesota Ter. ; Indian Tribes of Minnesota; Description of Saint Paul, and other points in the Territory ; First Navigation of the Minnesota by Steamboats, [June,1850;] Fort Snelling ; List of Post Offices and Post Masters in Minnesota ; Landing Points for Steamboats from Galena to St. Paul.; The Census ; Schools and Edu- cation in Minnesota ; The Fruits and Roots of the Minnesota Valley ; Laying of the Corner Stone of the Episcopal Church ; University of Minnesota at the Falls of St. Anthony ; Religious Movements in Minnesota ; Table of Steam- boat Arrivals, etc., at Fort Snelling for the past six years; The Dakota Na- tion—Address of Rev. S. R. Riggs ; Prospectus for Publishing a Dakota Lexi- con ; A Memoir on the History and Physical Geography of Minnesota, by H. R. Schoolcraft ; the Meteorology of Minnesota, by J. W. Bond ; Letter of Prof. Mather, of Ohio; Index.

3. Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society, 1852 ; containing the Annual Address by J. H. Simpson, First Lieut., Corps, U. S. Topographical Engineers, and other papers. Pub- lished by order of the Executive Council. St. Paul : Owens & Moore, Printers, Minnesotian Office. 8° : pp. 64.

Papers. Secretary's Annual Report ; Annual Address by Lieut. Simpson— " Narrative of a Tour through the Navajo Country ;" Letter of Mesnard, writ- ten on the eve of his Embarkation for Lake Superior; Ancient Monuments ; Iowa Indians and Mounds; Letter from Mr. J. F. Alton on the Stone Heaps at Red Wing ; The Early Nomenclature of Minnesota ; Minnesota, its Name and Origin ; Saint Louis River, by Rev. T. M. Fullerton ; Sketch of the Early Indian Trade and Traders of Minnesota, by E. D. Neill; Exploring Tour, by Rev. W. T. Boutwell; Battle of Lake Pokegama, by "an eye witness;" Wa-kan-Tibi ; Grant of Land at the Cave in Dayton's Bluff.

4. Annals of the Minnesota Historical Society, for eigh- teen hundred and fifty-three : Number IV. Printed by order of the Executive Council. Saint Paul: Owens & Moore, Printers. 1853. 8° : pp. 72.

Papers. Officers of the Society for 1853 ; Annual Report of Secretary ; Sketch of the Life of Nicollet, by Hon. Henry H. Sibley ; Sketch of Joseph Renville ; Department of Hudson Bay, by Kev. G. A. Belcourt; Mounds of the Minne- sota Valley, by Rev.S. R. Riggs ; Obituary Notice of James M. Goodhue, late Editor of the Pioneer ; Notes Supplementary to the Early Indian Trade, &c., (Annals of 1852;) Description of Mille Lacs, by J. G. Norwood, M. D.; Dakota Land and Dakota Life, by Edward D. Neill; The Meteorology of Minnesota, by John W. Bond.

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5. Materials for the Future History of Minnesota ; being a Report of the Minnesota Historical Society to the Leg- islative Assembly, in accordance with a Joint Resolution. Fifteen hundred copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Legislature. St. Paul : Joseph R. Brown, Territorial Printer. Pioneer and Democrat Office. 1856. 8° : pp. 142. [7 illus- trations.]

Contents. Introductory Chapter, on Nomenclature; Who were the first Men? by Rev, T. S. Williamson; An Historical Review [Reprint of the Ad- dress of Gov. Ramsey in 1851 ;] Early Notices of the Dakotas, by Edward D. Neill; Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan ; Sieur DuLuth; Le Sueur, the Ex- plorer of the Minnesota River ; Abstract of the Memorial of D'Iberville, on the Country of the Mississippi ; Minnesota as a British Dominion— Explora- tions of Jonathan Carver ; British Trade in Minnesota; Pike's Explorations in 1805; American Trade; Noted Early Indian Traders ; Fort Snelling ; Border Life in Minnesota, by Wm. J. Snelling ; Index .

6. Address delivered before the Minnesota Historical So- ciety, at its Sixth Anniversary, Feb. 1st, 1856, by the Hon. H. H. Sibley. 8°: pp. 17.

[Total number of pages in Vol. I, 511.]

VOLUME n.

1. Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of Saint An- thony in 1817. By Major Stephen H. Long, Topographical Engineer, United States Army. With introductory note by Edward D. Neill, Secretary Minnesota Historical Society. Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead, Book and Job Printer. 1860. 8° : pp. 88.

Contents. Officers of the Society ; Introductory Note ; Journal ; Appendix ; Map; Letter from A. J. Hill; Table of Distances, &c.

2. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, for the year 1864. Saint Paul : David Ramaley, Printer. 1865. 8° : pp. 84.

Contents. Officers of the Society; Introductory; Early French Forts and Foot Prints of the Valley of the Upper Mississippi, by E. D. Neill; Occur- rences in and around Fort Snelling, from 1819 to 1840, by E. D. Neill; History of the Dakotas— James W. Lynd's Manuscripts, by Rev. S. R. Riggs; the Re- ligion of the Dakotas— (Chapter VI, of Mr. Lynd's Manuscript).

3. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, for the year 1867. Saint Paul : Pioneer Printing Company. 1867.

8°: pp. 62.

Contents. Officers of the Society ; List of Papers ; Report of the Committee of Publication; Annual Report of the Secretary, Chas. E. Mayo; Mineral Re- gions of Lake Superior, as known from their first discovery to I860, by H. M. Rice; Constantine Beltrami, by A. J. Hill ; Historical Notes of the U. S. Land

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Office, by H. M. Rice, St. Paul ; The Geography of Perrot, so far as it relates to Minnesota and the regions immediately adjacent, by A. J. Hill; Dakota Su- perstitions, by Rev. G. H. Pond.

4. The Carver Centenary : An Account of the Celebration, by the Minnesota Historical Society, of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Council and Treaty of Capt. Jonathan Carver with the Naudowessies, on May 1, 1767, at the " Great Cave" (now within the limits of the City of Saint Paul, Minne- sota,) held May 1, 1867. Saint Paul: Pioneer Printing Com- pany. 1867. 8°: pp. 23. With portrait of Carver.

Oontenti. Preface; The Visit to the Cave; Description of the Cave; The Proceedings at the Cave; The Reunion in the Evening; Paper, by Rev. Jno. Mattocks, on the " Life and Explorations of Jonathan Carver."

5. Charter, Constitution^ and By-Laws of the Minnesota Historical Society. " Lux e Tenebris." Saint Paul : Ramaley & Hall, Printers. 1868. 8°: pp. 11.

[Total number of pages in Vol. II, 268.]

Charter, Constitution, By-Laws and Catalogue of Members of the Minnesota Historical Society, mdcoclvh. Saint Paul ; Goodrich, Somers & Co., Printers. 1857. 12° : pp. 43.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

A.

Aldrich, Hon. Cyrus — Report on Nor. Pacific R. R.

Anderson, Dr. C. L. (and T. M. Griffith)— Survey of portion of

Upper Mississippi River. Andrews, C. C. — Minnesota and Dakota. Andrews, T. F.— Official Report of the Constitutional Convention

Debates. [Republican.] Arnold, Mks. W. J. — The Poets and Poetry of Minnesota.

B.

Bailey, A. — Minnesota Gazetteer, &c. Barton, Wm. H.— Saint Paul Directory, 1869. Bell, J. B.— Saint Paul City Directory, 1869. Beltrami, C. — A Pilgrimage in Europe and America.

La Decouverte des Sources de Mississippi. BiSBBE, Rev. Herman— Natural Religion. A Sermon.

1. Adopted January 20, 1868.

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Bishop, Mrs. Harriet E. — Floral Home.

The Dakota War Whoop.

Minnesota, Then and Now. Bishop, J. W.— History of Fillmore County. Blanchard, Rufus — Hand Book of Minnesota. Bond, J. Wesley — Minnesota and its Resources. Bremer, Frederika — The Homes of the New World. Brooks, Rev. Jabez — Methodism, a Centenary Sermon. Bryant, Chas. S., (and A. B. Murch) — History of the Sioux Massacre. BuRRiTT, E. H. — Journal of Capt. Fiske's Expedition.

Carver, Jonathan — Travels through the Interior Parts of North

America, &c. Catlin, George— Indians of North America. Castle, Henry A. — The Problem of American Destiny. Chamberlain, H. E.— St. Anthony and Minneapolis Directory. Charlevoix, F. X.— History of New France. Chase, Rev. Geo. L. — Christ, not Self. A Sermon. Chatfield, a. G. — Opinion in the Hastings Land Site Case. Child, James E. — Waseca County, &c. Chittenden, N. H.— Stranger's Guide to Minneapolis. Coffin, C. C— The Great Commercial Prize.

The Seat of Empire. CoLBURN, Mary J.— Minnesota as a Home for Emigrants. CoLESON, Ann — Narrative of Intiian Captivity. Coloney, M. — Manomin ; a Rhythmical Romance. Combs, Wm. S.— Revised Journal of Masonic Grand Lodge. Crawford, I. D.— (See Ketchum, &c.)

DiSTURNELL, J.— Tourists' Guide to the Upper Mississippi. Dodge, O. E.— St. Paul Chamber of Commerce Report, 1870. Donnelly, Ignatius— Minnesota ; an Address, &c.

The Sonnets of Shakspeare ; an Essay. Du Pratz, Le Page— History of Louisiana.

E.

Eastlick, Mrs. Lavina— Narrative of Indian Captivity. Eastman, Mrs. Mary H.— Dahcotah; or Life and Legends, &c.

The Romance of Indian Life. Ebell, Adrian J.— The Indian Massacres of 1862. (Harpers' Mag.) Edwards, Richard— Gazetteer of the Mississippi River.

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F.

Featherstonhaugh, G. W.— Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor. FiSKis, Capt. J. L.— Report on his 1st and 2d trips to Idaho. FoLWELL, William W. — Inaugural Address at State University. Ford, L. M. — Minnesota Farmer and Gardener. French, B. F.— Histor. Coll. of La. and Fla. Frink, F. W.— a Record of Rice County, &c.

G.

Gale, George — Upper Mississippi.

Gordon, H. L. — Fourth of July Oration.

Grace, Rt. Rev. T. L.— The Papal Encyclical.

Gray, Rev. Edward P.— Harmony of the Gospel History.

Griffith, T. M. — (See Anderson, C. L.)

Griswold, Wm. B. — Mankato ; and Blue Earth County.

H.

Haines, E. M. — Compilation of Minnesota Laws. Hall, James— Notes upon the Geology, &c., of Minnesota. Hankins, H.— Dakota Land ; or Beauty of St. Paul. Hart, Rev. Burdett — Congregationalism. A Sermon.

The New North-West. Hawley, Rev. S. — The Fall of Sumpter. Heard, I. V. D.— History of the Sioux War.

Index to Common Council Proceedings, &c. Heaton, Hon. D. — Manufactures and Trade of the Upper Mississippi. Hennepin, L. — New Discovery of a Great Country, &c. Hewitt, G. — Minnesota; Its Advantages to Settlers'. Hinman, Rev. S. D. — Calvary Catechism in Dakota.

Prayer Book translated into Dakota. Hymns translated into Dakota. Hudson, A, G. — Review of a Sermon on Immortality.

J.

James, Dr. Edwin— Tanner's Narrative of Captivity. Johnson, Edwin F.— Report on Nor. Pacific R. R.

K.

Keating, Wm. H.— Expedition to Sources of the St. Peters River. Keiller, Andrew — Directory of St. Paul, 1857. Kennedy, E. C. — Osseo, the Spectre Chieftain. Ketchum, F. a., (and Crawford)— St. Paul Directory, 1869. Kloos, J. H.— Dutch Immigration Pamphlet. Rapport van Ingenieur, &c.

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L.

La Hontan, Baron— New Voyages to North America.

Lander, Fred. W. — Tleport of a R. R. Reconnoisance, &c.

Lanman, Chas. — A Summer in the Wilderness.

Latrobe, C. J. — The Rambler in North America.

Lea, Albert M. — Notes on Wisconsin Territory.

Le Dug, W. G.— Minnesota Year Books, 1851-2-3.

LiSTEO, Soren — Scandinavian Immigration Pamphlet.

Logan, Mrs. F. A.— Equal Rights, &c.

Lombard, C. W.— History of 3d Minnesota Regiment.

Long, Maj. S. H. — Voyage in a six-oared Skiff, &c.

LuBY, M. D. C— The Columbiad.

Ludden, Jno. D. — St. Paul Chamber of Commerce Reports, 1868-69.

M.

Marble, Manton— To Red River and Beyond, (Harpers' Mag.) Marshall, Wm. R. (and others) — Statement on Resources of N.P.R.R. Marshall, Rev. Thomas — Dedication Sermon — Mankato. Mattson, Hon. H. — Scandinavian Immigration Pamphlets. McCoNKEY, Mrs. H. E. B.— (See Bishop, Mrs. H. E.) McClung, J. W.— Saint Paul Directory, 1866.

Minnesota as it is in 1869. Mepwin, Heman— Minnesota Business Directory. Mitchell, W. H.— History of Olmsted County.

History of Steel County.

History of Hennepin County.

History of Goodhue County.

History of Dakota County. MuNsoN, A D. — Rise and Progress of Minnesota Territory. MuRCH, A. B.— (See Bryant, C. S.)

N.

Neill, Rev. E. D.— Dahkotah Land and Dahkotah Life.

History of Minnesota.

Michal ; or Fashionable Dancing.

Hand Book of the Presbyterian Church.

Effort and Failure to Civilize the Aborigines. Nichols, Rev. H. M. — True Thanksgiving; and True Manhood. NicoLAY, J. G.—Hole-in-the-Day— (Harpers' Mag.) Nicollet, J. N. — Hydrographical Basin of Upper Mississippi. Noble, Rev. F. A. — Blood, the Price of Redemption.

The Assured and Glorious Future of the Nation. Nobles, Col. Wm. H. — Speech on Emigrant Route, &c.

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o.

O'Brien, Dillon— The Dalys of Dalystown. Officer, Harvey— Vols. I-IX, Supreme Court Reports. Oliphant, Laurence— Minnesota and the Far West. OwEV, David Dale— Geological Survey of Minnesota.

P.

Parker, Nathan H. — The Minnesota Hand Book, 1856-7. ^

Parkman, Francis— The Discovery of the Great West.

Payne, W. W. — The Minnesota Teacher.

Pelz, Edward — German Immigration Documents.

Perrot, Nicolas— Memoir on the Manners, &c., of the Indians.

Phelps, Wm. F. — Educational Address.

Pierson, a. T. C— Masonic Installation Addresses.

Lodge of Sorrow Ceremony. Pike, Z. M. — Exploration of the Upper Mississippi. Pond, Rev. G. H.— Dakota School Books. Pond, Rev. S. W.— Translations of Works into Dakota. Pope, Capt. John— Exploration of Minnesota Territory. Pope, Rev. Jno. D.— Children and the Childhood of Jesus.

Anniversary Sermon, &c. PusBY, Pennock — Statistics of Minnesota, 1870.

R.

Ramsey, Hon. Alex. — Address at 2d Territorial Fair. Ravoux, Rev. A. — Path to Heaven, (Dakota). Rawlings, T. — Emigration, with special reference to Minnesota. Reno, Capt. J. L.— Survey of a Road from Mendota to the Big Sioux. Renville, John B. — Translations into Dakota. Renville, Joseph — Translations into Dakota. Rice, G. J., (and Bell)— St. Paul Directory, 1869. RiGGS, Mrs. M. A. C— English and Dakota Dictionary. RiGGS, Rev. Stephen R. — Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota

Language.

Translations and Works in Dakota.

Tah-Koo-Wah Kan, or Gospel among the Dakotas. RiTz, Philip — Letter on the new route, (to the Pacific). Robertson, D. A. — The Minnesota Monthly. Rosa, Gabriele — Life of Constantine Beltrami.

Sample, Rev. R. T.— Historical Sketch of Westminster Presb. Ch. Schatzel, G. W.— The Wheat Fields of Minnesota— (Harper's Mag.) 10

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Schoolcraft, H. B. — Indian Tribes of the United States.

Narrative of Travels from Detroit, N. W., &c.

Narrative of au Expedition to Itasca Lake in 1820.

Summary of an Expedition to Itasca Lake in 1832,

Thirty years' residence with the Indian Tribes. Seymour, E. S.— Sketches of Minnesota; theN.E. of the West. Shaw, E. P.— Minneapolis Directory. Shea, John G.— Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi.

Early Voyages up and dowa the Mississippi. Shields, Hon. James — Speech on Pacific Railroad Bill. Skinner, Rev. D. — The Final Salvation of all Mankind. Smith, Hon. A. C. — Masonic Installation Address. Smith, Francis H. — Official Report of Constitutional Convention,

(Democratic Wing.) SanTH, W. R. — Minnesota as a Home for Immigrants. SORIN, Rev. M. — Political Character of Romanism. Spencer, Wm. A. — Vols. X to XIII, Supreme Court Reports. Starkey, James— Suggestions as to Sewerage &c., in St. Paul. Stevens, Isaac I.— Northern Pacific R. R. Survey, Vol. XII.

Letter on Northern Pacific Route. Stevens, Rev. J. D.— Dakota Spelling Book, Stevens, Jno. H. — Early History of Hennepin County. Stone, Rev. Geo. M.— Life of Dr. John D. Ford. Storey, W. D. — A view of Saint Anthony Falls. Sweetzer, Chas. H. — Tourist's and Invalid's Guide to the N. W.

T.

Taylor, Jas. W.— The Railroad System of Minnesota.

North- West British America.

The Sioux War; What shall we do with it?

The Sioux War; Campaign of 1863. TuTTLE, Rev. J. B. — Universalism Unmasked. TuTTLE, J. M.— The Minnesota Pineries.

V. Van Ingen, Rev. J. V. — Memorial, &c., on Church Foundation.

w.

Wakefield, Mrs. Sarah F. — Six weeks in the Sioux Teepes. Warren, Gen. G. K. — Reports on Survey of Upper Mississippi.

Physical Features of the Upper Miss. Valley. Weeks, Mrs. Helen C. — White and Red. Wheelock, Jos. A. — Minnesota; Its Place among the States.

Minnesota ; Its Progress and Capabilities. Whipple, Rt. Rev. H. B. — Address to the 10th Convention, &c.

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Whittlesey, Chas.— Geology and Minerals.

Wilkinson, M. S. — Revised Statutes of 1851.

WiLLARD, J. A. — Blue Earth Co. ; its Advantages, &c.

Williams, Rev. Edwin Sidney — Christian Amusements. A Sermon.

Williams, J. F.— Carver Centenary.

Early History of St. Paul.

Reports of Historical Society, 1868-9-70.

The Minnesota Guide.

Atlantic Cable Celebration, St. Paul. Williamson, Rev. T. S. — Translations into Dakota.

Discourse before Synod of Minnesota. Williamson, John P. — Dakota School Books, etc. WiNDOM, Wm.— Speech on Nor. Pac. R. R. Bill. Winston, T. B. — Minnesota— a bundle of facts, &c. Wolff, Albert— Gedichte Vermischten Inhalts. Wolfe, J. M.— Winona Directory. Woods, Maj. S.— Pembina Settlement, &c.

♦«* The foregoing article was completed February, 1870, and Includes only books issued up to that time.

A REMINISCENCE OF FT. SNELLING.

BY MRS. CHARLOTTE O. VAN CLEVE.

Like the old man in Dickens* " Child's Story," " I am always remembering : come and remember with me."

I close my eyes and recall an evening some forty-two years ago, when, in one of the stone houses near Fort Snelling, which was our home at that time, a pleasant company of officers and their families were spending a social evening with my parents. The doors were thrown open, for the weather was warm, and one of the officers, Capt. Cruger,^ was walking on the piazza, when we were all startled by the sound of rapid firing very near us. The captain rushed into the house, much agitated, exclaiming, " That bullet almost grazed my ear ! " What could it mean : were the Indians surrounding us ?

Soon the loud yells and shrieks from the Indian camp near our house made it evident that the treaty of peace, made that afternoon between the Sioux and Chippewas, had ended, as all those treaties did, in treachery and bloodshed. The principal men of the two nations had met at the Indian Agency, and, in the presence of Maj. Taliaferro,^ their " White Father," had

1. Capt. Wm. E. Cruger was a native of New York, and graduated at "West Point in 1819. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of ttie Fifth Infantry on July 12, 1820; and promoted to First Lieutenant, June, 1824; Adjutant in 1827; and Captain in October, 1833. He resigned under circum- stances derogatory to his character, on Oct. 31, 1836, and died soon after In New York, where he had sunk to poverty and obscurity.— W.

2. Lawrence Taliaferro was born in Virginia, Feb. 28, 1794; enlisted in war of 1812, at age of 16; rose to the rank of First Lieutenant; and at close of war was retained, with that rank, in the regular service. In 1819 resigned, and was appointed Indian Agent at " Saint Peter's," which post he held 21 years, by successive reappointments, until January, 1840, when he resigned. He is now U. S. Military Storekeeper at Bedford, Pa.— W.

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made a solemn treaty of peace. In the evening, at the wigwam of the Chippewa chief, they had ratified this treaty by smoking the pipe of peace together ; and then, before the smoke of the emblematic pipe had cleared away, the treacherous Sioux had gone out and deliberately fired into the wigwam, killing and wounding several of the unsuspecting inmates. The Chippewas of course returned the fire, and this was what had startled us all and broken up the pleasant little gathering at my father's^ house.

The Chippewas sought refuge and protection with their wounded within the walls of the fort, commanded at that time by Col. JosiAH Snelling,^ for whom it was named. They were

1. Maj. Nathan Clark was born in May, 1789, near Worcester, Mass. He entered the service as a Second Lieutenant in the 37th Infantry in 1812. After serving with honor in the war, he was retained at its close, and appointed in the regular army, being assigned to the Fifth Infantry. He was stationed on recruiting service some time at Hartford, Conn., where he became acquainted with and married, in 1816, Miss Charlotte Ann Seymour, daughter of Thomas Seymour of that city. After about two years of service at various posts, Maj. Clark returned to Hartford, whence he was, in 1819, ordered to join his regiment at Detroit, at which place it rendezvoused, previous to coming to St. Peter's (Mendota.) The march from Detroit to Prairie du Chien, through a wilderness, was one of hardship, especially to the ladies who accompanied the regiment. On arriving at Prairie du Chien, Mrs. Van Cleve, the authoress of this sketch, was born, on July 1, 1819. Aft«r a little stay at Prairie du Chien, Maj . Clark and his family proceeded to St. Peter's, which was their home for nearly eight years. Maj. Clark was, during this period, commissary of the post. In 1827 he was ordered to Fort Crawford, and after remaining there several months, was sent to Nashville on recruiting service. While at this post, the family became acquainted with Gen. Jackson, then running for President (1828.) Some interesting remi- niscences of " Old Hickory," as he was called at that period, were contributed by Mrs. Van Cleve to Parton's Life of Jackson, Vol. Ill, p. 159. Maj. Clark was next stationed at Smithland, Ky., and then at Cincinnati, where his family resided some three or four years. Meantime, he commanded Fort Howard during the Black Hawk War, and was joined by his family in 1833, at Fort Winnebago, Wis. Maj . Clark died at that post, of disease induced by exposure and frontier service, on Feb. 18, 1886. His remains now repose in Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati. His widow, Mrs. Charlote A. Clark, still survives, with faculties unimpaired by age. Her memory, and that ol her daughter, Mrs. Van Cleve, is a storehouse of the most entertaining and valuable historical reminiscences of early days in the Northwest, most of which have never been recorded. I am glad to add, that on a recent visit to Mrs. Van Cleve, I found her engaged in writing up copious memoirs- of the days of half a century ago, and secured a promise to have them placed, when completed, at the disposal of this Society.— W.

2. Col. Josiah Snelling was born in Massacfhusetts in 1782. He was com- missioned First Lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry in 1808, Regimental Paymaster in April, 1809, and promoted to a Captaincy in June following. P.reveted Major for gallantry at Brownstown in August, 1812. In April, 1818,

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kindly cared for, and the wounded were tenderly nursed in our hospital. One, a little girl, daughter of the chief, excited much sympathy, and I cannot forget the interest I felt in her, for she was but a year or two older than myself, and it seemed to me so cruel to ruthlessly put out her j^oung life. I remember the ladies of the fort were very kind and tender to her, and since I have had little girls of my own, I know why. She lingered but a few days, in great agony, and then God took her out of her pain to that land where the poor little, wandering, wounded child should know sin or suffering no more.

Meanwhile our colonel, a prompt and efficient officer, demanded of the Sioux the murderers, and in a very few days, a body of Sioux were seen advancing towards the fort, as was supposed, to deliver up the criminals. Two companies of soldiers were sent to meet them and receive the murderers at their hands. Strange to say, although they had the men, they refused to give them up. Our interpreter, I cannot recall his name, stepped out from among our soldiers, and said :

" If you do not yield up these men peaceably, then, as many leaves as there are on these trees, as many blades of grass as you see beneath your feet, so many white men will come upon you, burn your villages, and destroy your nation."

was appointed Assistant Inspector General, and in February, 1848, com- missioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Rifles. He served with honor at the battles of Tippecanoe, Maguaga, and Lyons Creek, and other engage- ments in the war of 1812, and at its close was retained as Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixth Infantry. He was promoted to Colonel of the Fifth Infantry in 1819. The Fifth Infantry was ordered to St. Peter's (Mendota) in February of that year, and in August, 1820, Col. Snelmng arrived, took command of the post, and in September commenced to build "Fort St. Anthony." It was completed for occupancy in the fall of 1822. In 1824, Gen. Scott visited and inspected it. At his recommendation, the War Department changed the name to "Fort Snelling," in honor of its builder. In the summer of 1827, the Fifth Regiment was ordered to Jefferson Barracks. Col. SNEiiLiNG proceeded to Washington on official business, and while there was seized with inflammation of the brain and died on August 28th. Col. Snelling had two sons who have been eminent. Wm. Joseph Snelling was an author of ability, and wrote a book entitled: "Tales of the Northwent ; or, Sketches of Indian Life and Character. By a Resident beyond the Frontier." (Boston, 1830.) Catlin speaks in unbounded praise of the work as a faithful picture of Indian Life. The author, a man of genius, but unfortunate habits, died in Massachusetts in 1848, aged 44 years. The other son of Col. Snelling, James G. S. Snelling, entered the army and served with distinction in the Mexican War, The widow of Col. Snelling is still living in Cincinnati, O., at an advanced age, having remarried after the coloners death.— W.

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A few moments' consideration, a few hurried words of con- sultation, and the guilty men were handed over to our troops. The tribe followed as they were taken into the fort, and making a small fire within the walls, the condemned marched round and round it, singing their death songs, and then were given up to be put in irons and held in custody until time should determine how many lives should pay the forfeit, for it is well known that Indian revenge is literally a life for a life, and the colonel had decided to give them into the hands of the injured tribe to do with them as they would.

Some weeks passed and it was found that five lives were to be paid for in kind. A council of Chippewas decided that the five selected from the prisoners should run the gauntlet, and the decision was approved.

Back over the lapse of these many years I pass and seem to be a child again, standing beside my only brother^ at the back door of my father's house.

The day is beautiful, the sun is so bright, the grass so green, all nature so smiling, it is hard to realize what is going on over yonder by the graveyard, in that crowd of men and women. For there are gathered together of the Chippewas, old and young men, women and children, who have come out to witness or take part in this act of retributive justice. There are blue coats too, and various badges of our U. S. uniform, for it is necessary to throw some restraint around these red men, or there may be wholesale murder ; and, borne on the shoulders of his young men, we see the form of the wounded, dying chief, regarding all with calm satisfaction, and no doubt happy in the thought that his death, so near, will not go unavenged. And there stand the young braves who have been selected as the executioners : their rifles are loaded, the locks carefully examined, and all is ready when the word shall be given.

1. Malcolm CLARKwas the only son of Maj. Nathan Clark. He was born at Fort Wayne, Ind. (where his father was temporarily stationed) in 1817. His entire life was passed on the frontier— his early boyhood at Fort Sne'lling— and he became a proficient in several Indian tongues, and thoroughly acquainted with savage life and customs, uli imately becoming allied to them by marriage. He had many thrilling adventures during his long residence with the Indians, and after innumerable escapes finally met his death at the hands of the Blackfeet Indians, at his trading post near Helena, Montana Territory, Aug. 18, 1869, aged nearly 53 years.— W.

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There too, under guard, are the live men who are to pay the forfeit for the five lives taken so wantonly and treacherously.

Away otf, I cannot tell how many rods, but it seems to us children a long run^ are stationed the Sioux tribe, and that is the goal for which the wretched men must run for their lives.

And now all seems ready ; and we stand on tiptoe, while the balls and chains are knocked off and the captives are set free. At a word one of the doomed men starts, the rifles with unerring aim are fired, and under cover of the smoke a man falls dead. They reload, the word is given, another starts with a bound for home; but ah ! the aim of those clear-sighted, blood- thirsty red men is too deadly ; and so one after another until four are down.

And then the last, " Little Six" — whom at that distance, we children readily recognize, from his commanding height and graceful form ; he is our friend, and we hope he will get home. He starts, — they fire, — the smoke clears away and still he is running, — we clap our hands, and say "he will get home ; '* but another volley and our favorite, almost at the goal, springs into the air and comes down — dead ! I cover my face and shed tears of real sorrow for our friend. And now follows a scene that beggars description. The bodies, all warm and limp, are dragged to the brow of the hill. Men who at the sight of blood, become almost fiends, tear off the reeking scalps and hand them to the chief, who hangs them around his neck. Women and children with tomahawks and knives cut deep gashes in the poor dead bodies, and scooping up the hot blood with their hands, eagerly drink it ; then, grown frantic, they dance, and yell, and sing their horrid scalp songs, recounting deeds of valor on the part of their brave men, and telling off the Sioux scalps, taken in different battles, until tired and satiated at last with their horrid feast, they leave the mutilated bodies — festering in the sun.

At nightfall they are thrown over the bluff into the river, and my brother and myself, awe struck and quiet, trace their hideous voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We lie awake that night talking of the dreadful sight we have seen, and we try to imagine what the people in New Orleans will think when they see those ghastly upturned faces ; — and

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we talk with quivering lips and tearful eyes of " Little Six," and of the many kind things he has done for us, the bows and arrows, the mocauks of sugar, the pretty beaded moccasins, he has given us ; and we wish, oh ! we wish, he could have run faster, or that the Chippewa rifles had missed fire. And we sleep and dream of scalps, and rifles, and war whoops, and frightful yells, and wake, wishing it had all been a dream.

Next day the djing chief sat up in bed, painted himself for death, sang his death song, and with those five fresh, bloody scalps about his neck lay down and died, calmly and peace- fully, in the comfortable hope, no doubt, of a welcome in those " happy hunting grounds," prepared by the " Good Spirit," for all those Indians who are faithful to their friends, and avenge themselves upon their foes.

A few years ago I told this story to another " Little Six," " Old Shakopee," as he lay, with gyves upon his legs, in our guard house at Fort Snelling, awaiting execution, for almost numberless cold-blooded murders, perpetrated during the dread- ful massacre of '62. He remembered it all, and his wicked old face lighted up with joy as he told me he was the son of that "Little Six" who made so brave a run for his life; and he showed as much pride and pleasure in listening to the recital of his father's treacherous conduct, as the children of our great generals will do some day, as they read or hear of deeds of bravery or daring that their fathers have done.

Saint Anthony, 1869.

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NARRATIVE OF PAUL MAZAKOOTEMANE.

TRANSLATED BY REV. S. R. RIGGS.

The Declaration of Paul Mazakootemane, of the Dakota People.

I desire that the American people, who are my friends, should listen to this my personal narrative.^

I was born an Indian, and consequently I did not know to distinguish between the good and the bad. I followed the Dakota customs alone, — and this I did until I was twenty-nine years old. Then the American sacred men came among my people and commenced to teach them. But I did not under- stand, and I thought if I should give my attention to it for ten years, I should still not understand it. But when I had learned to put two or three letters together, I began to com- prehend the writing, from which I progressed until 1 was able to read a little. Then I began to read the sacred writing, but I did not still know that the great God would have mercj^ on me.

By and by I came to know this, and then the sacred writing showed me that for all my past evil deeds I must die. After- wards came the conviction that I was even now dead, but the great God was merciful and had given His Son only Begotten to die for us ; and He had died for sin, that through his suffer- ings we might live. So the question came up, " What shall I do to be saved ?" and morning and night I sought by prayer to know how I could be saved.

1. Mr. RiGGS says in a note accompanying this papor: "I received this personal narrative of Paul, written by himself in the Dakota Language. Among other things, it gives an inside vieio of the late Sioux outbreak, by a loyal Dakota man. I think, therefore, it will be valuable." The MS. of Paul is written in a neat and scholarly manner.— W.

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After a while the great God my Father wrought in me great thanksgiving, and made me a member and an office-bearer in his church. Thus the good God brought to us wild men the way of life ; and now the gospel has taken root and will grow among the Indians. For this we give great thanks.

Then the sacred men who came to us, counselled me and told me to put off my Dakota clothes and be like a white man : to cut off my hair and put on white man's clothes. This I thought was good advice, and I acted in accordance therewith. With a good number of my friends I changed my dress. Nearly forty of us at one time cut off our hair and put on the white man's dress and formed ourselves into a separate community, of which they elected me chief; and our separate band was at once recognized by the agent, Maj. Murphy. This was in 1856. The agent was well pleased with our onward movement, and said, " If all the Dakotas would do so it would be well." It was well. I liked it.

The next year Inkpadoota (Scarlet Point) killed a great many white people. And as I now considered myself a white man, my heart was sad for this thing. At this time Maj. Flandrau was agent. He called the Dakotas together ; and when all the people had come, he asked them to go and rescue the women captives who were in the hands of Inkpadoota. My heart was real bad about it, and I said I would seek them. I went and searched for them, and after twenty days I succeeded in bringing home Miss Abbe Gardner, the only remaining cap- tive. We took her down immediately to St. Paul and delivered her to the Governor. " You are a brave man, and you have done a great deed. You have accomplished a great, good work through your bravery," he said to me. He said also he would write about it to the Great Father, who would like it also.

For this I gave thanks to the great God. I said, " O God, my Father, thou hast manifested thy mercy, and by this good work, thou hast made me glad, in that thou hast enabled me to do this good thing."

The year following this, four of the Leaf Villagers and four of the Sisseton Band were invited to go to see the Great Father. I was one of the delegation. They took us on, and we reached Washington in about a month. We went to the Great Father's

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house and shook hands with him, when he said to me, " Paul Mazakootemane, T bless your name. When you go home, tell your people to follow the white man's customs alone." So when I returned I counselled my people according to the words of our Great Father. We planted larger fields, for the great God had mercy on us. We built also two. sacred houses (churches) in my country. And when the chiefs of the Leaf and Marsh Villagers talked with the white people, they made me their spokesman. So I asked my Father the great God to give me wisdom, and I think he granted it to me.

Then suddenly came the outbreak of the Lower Indians (the Mdawakontonwans.) I heard they were fighting with the white people ; and I hastened to the mission station at Hazelwood to keep my sacred men from being killed. By night and by day I guarded them. My young men were few, but we did a good work in saving the lives of all the mission families. In this I thought the good Lord had mercy on me, and I gave thanks. I said, " O God, my Father, thou hast shown to me thy favor, in that thou hast enabled me to save alive my friends."

This was in 1862. Then we were alone with the Dakotas ; and I saw no opening for good. But I did not forget the word of the great God my Father, and I think He led me to a strong purpose.

As I went from tent to tent in the Dakota camp I saw a great many white women and children captives. On that account my heart was very sad, and I became almost sick. I considered what I could do to save these captives. And He who is mer- ciful and strong helped me, and in answer to ray prayers gave me strength. So I went into the assembly of all the Dakota braves, and I said to them, '' If you will give me leave in your council, I will speak to you of a certain mattci ." They gave me leave to speak. Then I stood up and said, '* When this people in times past have assembled in council I have been their speake]c ; but that time is past. I want to speak now to you of what is in my own heart. Give me all these white cap- tives. I will deliver them up to their friends. You Dakotas are numerous — you can afford to give these captives to me, and I will go with them to the white people. Then, if you want to fight, when you see the white soldiers coming to fight, fight

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with them, but don't fight with women and children. Or stop fighting. The Americans are a great people. They have much lead, powder, guns, and provisions. Stop fighting, and now gather up all the captives and give them to me. No one who fights with the white people ever becomes rich, or remains two days in one place, but is always fleeing and starving. You have said that whoever talks in this way shall not live — that you will kill him. Stop talking in that way, and if any one says what is good, listen to it."

Then White Lodge's son,who is called "Strike the Pawnees," arose and said, " If we are to die, these captives shall die with us " — and to this they all said " Yes."

I then returned home and made a gi-eat feast myself, to which I invited more than two hundred men. When they came together I again demanded the captives, and made a long speech. They had said they would fight the Americans and make friends with the British. To this I answered. " When you sa}^ you will fight the Americans and attach yourselves firmly to the British, you say what is not true. Forsake then your evil doings, for the British will dislike every one who is wicked and disobedient, even though he be a white man. This is my thought : listen to it, and deliver up to me the captives."

Then Rattling Runner, one of the chief braves said to me, "The braves say they will not give you the captives. The Mdawakontonwans are men, and therefore as long as one of them lives they will not stop pointing their guns at the Ameri- cans."

Next to him a man who is called The Thunder that makes itself blue said to me, " Although we shall die bravely, and though the captives die in the way, I don't care. Don't men- tion the captives any more."

When they had said these things, they arose and departed, and as they went home they sang a soldier's song : —

♦' Over the earth I come; Over the earth I come;

A soldier I come; Over the earth I am a ghost."

This is the song they sang. I disliked it very much ; and although my young men were few, I said to them, " Take your

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guns ; this people have wrought a great wickedness which I will cut in two." So they took up their guns. I then gathered all the horses and wagons that had been taken from the half breeds and restored them to them. Then I called especially upon my friends among the Sissetons. After this I invited the Sissetons and the Mdawankontons all — and on the one side were Sissetons, and on the other side the Mdawakontons. I took my stand in the midst. They said they would kill me ; but as I wished to die in the midst of a great multitude, I spoke thus : " Sissetons, the Mdawakontons have made war upon the white people, and have now fled up here. I have asked them why they did this, but I do not yet understand it. I have asked them to do me a favor, but they have refused. Now I will ask them again in your hearing. Mdawakontons, why have you made war on the white people ? The Americans have given us money, food, clothing, ploughs, powder, tobacco, guns, knives, and all things by which we might live well ; and they have nourished us even like a father his children. Why then have you made war upon them ? You did not tell me you were going to fight with 'the white people ; and how then should I approve it? No, I will go over to the white people. If they wish it they may kill me. If they don't wish to kill me, I shall live. So, all of you who do not want to fight with the white people, come over to me. I haveliow one hundred men. We are going over to the white people. Deliver up to me the captives. And as many of you as don't wish to fight with the whites, gather yourselves together to-day and come to me — all of you who are willing."

Having said these things to them, I removed my tent out to one side, the same day. Then His Thunder, who had Mr. Spencer, one of the captives, came and pitched his tent by mine. And all who valued the friendship of the Americans came also — such as Simon and Lorenzo of the Wahpetons. Also two Sissetons, viz., Wamdisuntanka (Great-tailed Eagle) and Hayokisna (Hay oka alone.) These were both good men, and each had a captive boy ; but they took care of them as their own children. The captive that Great-tailed Eagle had was without clothes. He sold a horse and bought clothes

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and dressed up the captive boy very well. And I thought he did a good deed.

After this they gathered up the captives and gave them to me. And now Gen. Sibley came with his army. I remained at our camp near the mouth of the Chippewa, while a great part of the Dakotas fled. When the white troops came near, I raised a white flag. Gen. Sibley came on and encamped near me, and so I shook hands Tt^ith him and with all the oflScers. Then I said, *' I have grown up like a child of yours. With what is yours, you have caused me to grow ; and now I take your hand as a child takes the hand of his father. My hand is not bad. With a clean hand I take your hand. I know whence this blessing cometh. I have regarded all white people as my friends, and from this I understand this blessing has come. This is a good work we do to-day, whereof I am glad. Yes, before the great God I am glad."

Gen. Sibley said to me, " This is good. Henceforth I will take you into my service." Since that I and my children have lived well. And from that time more than ever I have regarded myself as a white man, and I have counselled my boys accor- dingly.

There was then a fort built at the head of the Coteau des Prairies ; and the oflScer in command made known the will of the Great Father. He said that all the Dakotas who wished for good might come to the head of the Coteau and live. " Come, come," he said to the Dakotas, " the Great Father is merciful, and will have mercy on any one who is needy." This he said giving them the invitation. Then all the men who wished for the friendship of the ^white people came in, and with their people desired good. These are the chief men — Wasukiye, Wamnahize, Wasuiciyapa, Wamdisuntanka, Isakiye and HuPACOKAMAZA. These first shook hands with the white people and desired that they and their children might live.

I talked with these men, and said to them, " Why did you flee ? You were not implicated in the war of the Lower Sioux with the white people. What did you fear, that you fled and did not come back for a long time ? "

They said, "Indeed we knew that the Americans were furious,

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and therefore we fled. But now our Great Father says we may live, and therefore we have come back."

I went with them to see the commanding officer of the fort, with whom they had a talk. He said to them, " The Great Father has commanded me to invite all the Indians to come back who do not want to fight. The Great Father wishes to have no more fighting ; therefore he has commanded me to call in all the Indians, and he says you shall do no more fighting." To this they said " Yes."

Then Great-tailed Eagle, one of the Dakota chiefs, stood up and said, " The guns, and the tobacco, and the lead, and the knives which we have are all made by the Americans. If we fight the Americans we must use these things that we have of them, to fight with. Therefore we dislike the fighting. By the help of the Americans we live ; and we do not wish to fight the Americans with the things they have made. I desire onty that which is good, and therefore I have come to shake hands with you that I may live."

To this the commanding officer replied, " You have spoken well. Before the snow comes, I will send your name to the Great Father."

The Hail that strikes itself, another Dakota chief, said, " Shall one who is a chief seek what is bad? I am a chief, and therefore I seek only the good."

To this the officer replied, " Yes, you speak well. Your Great Father seeks only that which is good."

After these words, when winter was coming on, another Dakota chief came in — this was Scarlet Eagle Tail and his people. Seven chiefs and their people were now here.

About this time the commanding officer employed them as scouts, and every Dakota that they saw, who came to the region of Fort Wadsworth on the war path, they killed. In all they killed thirteen. So the rebellion was stopped, and all the people desired to return to what was good.

During this time I was in the employ of the military and had charge of carrying the mails. A letter came to me which said, "We are going to Washington ; if you wish you shall go along ; if you don't wish to go you shall not go." But as the principal Dakota men were not going, I did not go. I said, " The Great

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Father has been in the habit of calling the chief men. Why now has he not called the chiefs ? Wh}^ has he not called one good man?"

When they had been to see the Great Father and returned, I heard them say that the Great Father had given us the country at the head of the Coteau. And I said to them, "I am glad that our Great Father has given us this country to be ours ; so that here we may be the people of our Great Father — that in this land we may make known the sacred vjritings — that every one of us us may have our own sacred book — that each man may have one wife — and that we may cease to hold the Dakota customs, but each one marr}^ his wife, and thus the sacred brother-hood may grow."

I thought they all desired this. Moreover while I was absent the Dakotas all came together and said, " Since we desire to have a good community, we will make a good and believing man head chief." They said the}' would elect him for two years, and if he did well he should remain, in for four years. But if he did not well they would put him out, although he had not been in one year. On this platform they chose Simon Anawanymane.

Then Bishop Whipple and Dr. Daniels came up with provi- sions and clothing. The Dakota people were glad. At that time HuPACOKAMAZA, one of the chiefs, stood up and said, " We Dakotas have made a head chief, of which I tell you." But the Bishop said, " No, I will talk with the one whom your Great Father has made chief."

The Dakotas wondered who it was he meant. Then Gabriel Renville stood up and talked with him. But the Dakota men said, " We are Dakotas, and it is not fit that a white man should be our chief. We want to have a chief from among ourselves. The Americans are wise — wh}^ did they do this without our knowledge ? Behind Gabriel Renville there are four others who were made chiefs. Why did the Americans do this without our consent ? " I heard these things said. -

Then the blankets were given out. But to a part they gave

no blankets. They gave only to those who had cut timber.

And when to only a part of the people provisions were given

by the braves, the sacred man said, *' I have mercy upon them

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and will give them a portion." But then four Dakota head men said, " These provisions are ours, and we alone will have them." Then the sacred man's heart was sad. When he saw the poverty and want of the Dakotas his heart was sad.

My heart also was sad on this account ; and when I con- sidered the hard times they would meet with this winter, and with what difficulty they would reach the spring, I went into their assembly and talked to them. I said, " The sacred man was merciful, but you did not do well. As the holy Jesus came to this earth and was merciful, so it is good that all men should have mercy one upon another. But you have not done well. Nevertheless, trust in the great God. If our Great Father gives the Dakotas only what he has sent by the hands of Bishop Whipple, he will have done well. But the Dakota chiefs have not done well. This I know."

And now my friends of the great American people, I am fifty-eight years old when I write this which you hear.

My friends of the Great Nation, one and all, I shake hands with you.

Paul.

March 19, 1869.

MEMOIR OF EX-GOV. HENRY A. SWIFT.

BY J. F. W.

Henrt Adoniram Swift was born in Ravenna, Ohio, March 23, 1823, and was the second son of Dr. Isaac Swift and Mrs. Eliza (Thompson) Swift, both of whom were among the early settlers of Ohio. The former, who has now reached the venerable age of eighty years, was a native of Cornwall, Litch- field County, Conn., and came to Ohio in 1815. Mrs. Swift was born in Stockbridge, Mass., and came to Ohio with her parents in 1814. The youth of Ex-Gov. Swift was one of unusual promise, which was well fulfilled by his maturer years. After a course of academic study, he entered Western Reserve College, at Hudson, O., and graduated about the j^ear 1842, with high honors in his class. He spent the next winter in Mississippi, as a teacher. The events of his residence in that State were such as to give him an abhorrence for the "accursed institution," and ever afterwards during his life he conscien- tiously labored for its overthrow. Indeed, at one time he became obnoxious to parties in the neighborhood on account of his free-soil views, and his life was threatened, but he returned safely to his former home. He at once began the study of law in the office of Messrs. Tilden & Ranney, Ravenna, and in October, 1845, was admitted to practice. The winter of 1846-7 he passed at Columbus, as Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives. The succeeding winters of 1847-8 and 1848-9 he also passed at Columbus, being chosen Chief Clerk of the House, for the sessions of those years. In this position he acquitted himself well, and especially during the protracted dead-lock in the House at the opening of the Session of Decern

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ber, 1848, over the election of speaker, an important and delicate duty devolved upon the clerk, and in this matter that officer so bore himself as to receive the approbation and confi- dence of the entire body.

In September, 1851, Mr. Swift was married to Miss Ruth Livingston, of Gettysburg, Pa. He now demoted his time assiduously to his profession, and the affairs of the Portage Farmer's Insurance Company, of which he was secretary. In 1863, however, feeling anxious to have a more extended field for his abilities, he resolved to emigrate to Minnesota. Placing all his worldly effects upon a steamboat at Pittsburg, with his wife and infant daughter, he made the entire trip by river, landing at St. Paul, then a toWn of a few hundred inhabitants, early in the spring of 1853. Here he at once opened an office as a real estate and insurance agent, and soon after built a resi- dence on College Avenue, now occupied by E. S. Edgerton, Esq.

He remained a resident of St. Paul about three years, devoting all his abilities in various ways to the good of the young commonwealth in which he had made his home. In 1856 he sold his St. Paul property and invested his means in the *' Saint Peter Company," which had laid out a new town of that name, then coming into notice, though as yet almost with- out population. The town grew very rapidly during the next two years, however, and his investments proved quite profitable. The crash of 1857 alirfost wrecked him, (as it did all other extensive land owners,) but by prudent management he finally recovered from the shock, and before his death had again placed himself in easy circumstances. The early years of his residence at St. Peter were years of hardship and privation incident to frontier life, but he bore them all patiently. He threw his whole energy into the task of building up and benefitting the town hi every way possible, and lived to see it grow from the little hamlet to a flourishing busy city, and himself become almost " the idol of the community," so universally was he beloved and esteemed.

Gov. Swift first came prominently before the people of Minnesota in the fall of 1857, when he was a candidate for Congress, during a heated and exciting canvass. He appeared frequently on the stump, and gained much admiration even

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from his opponents, for his clear and comprehensive statements of the political issues of the hour, and his fair, candid, and dignified treatment of the opposite party. In debate he was eloquent, logical, and conclusive, despising all clap-trap and the usual tricks of demagoguery. Gov. Swift's party were not successful in the campaign, but he won the respect of all who met him, and stood higher at its close than before.

In the fall of 1861, Gov. Swift was elected from his district a member of the State Senate, and served during the two sessions of 1862 and 1863. One who was associated with him as a fellow member says : " He was always courteous, genial, and manly — as careful of the rights of others as he was jealous of his own. He never addressed the Senate, except when important matters were under discussion, but then his matter and manner impressed every listener with a profound conviction of his earnestness." Most acceptably and ably he represented his district during these two sessions, and not the peoi»lo of his district merely, but of the whole State, for he ever labored faithfully for its welfare, and many of the measures of those sessions bear the impress of his watchful care and anxiety to advance the prosperity of the State.

W4ien the terrible news of the Indian massacre reached St. Peter, on Aug. 18, 1862, Gov. Swift was one of the party that promptly formed and marched to the relief of the town of New Ulm, about 30 miles distant. They arrived there the next day about noon, in time to repulse the Indians after a hot action. Gov. Swift was also in the battle of Aug. 23d, and acted with conspicuous coolness and bravery. Mr. Bryant says, in his History of the Massacre :

"At one time H. A. Swift went up on the side of the first table land adjoining the town, to make observations, when he was fired upon from a log building only a few rods off", which was full of Indians. He instantly dropped down behind a slight elevation of ground. While lying there, Indian balls plowed up the ground all around him. During this time Judge Flandrau and S. A. Buell came dashing up on horseback, and but for the timely warning of Mr. Swift, both would, un- doubtedly, have been shot, as they were not aware of the near proximity of the savages."

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He remained in the town doing what he could for its defence, until it was abandoned, and all the inhabitants and property removed. He was everywhere active in assisting the poor fugitives who had fled from the murderous savages and sought refuge in the town — many of them wounded and sick, and to the wants of the latter he personally ministered, assisting the needy liberally from his own purse. One who knew him well has written : "He shouldered his musket and took his turn at guard duty at night in the midst of rain and exposure to which he was wholly unaccustomed. It brought upon him a disease, from the effects of which his delicate constitution never re- covered. He sacrificed his life for others, and is as truly a victim of the Sioux War, as if he had fallen before an Indian bullet in the battle of New Ulm."

During the second term of his service in the State Senate, Lieutenant-Governor Donnelly resigned his seat, having been elected Congressman, his term commencing March 4th, 1863. On March 5th, Gov, Swift was elected by the Senate to fill the vacancy. Gov. Alex. Ramsey having been elected as U. S. Senator during the same session, resigned the Governorship during the following month, and Gov. Swift being his legal successor, was installed in the gubernatorial chair, thus by rapid promotion assuming the chief oflSce of the commonwealth for the balance of the term.

The following summer, when the matter of the incumbent of the next term was agitated, he was strongly urged to accept the nomination. This he firmly declined to do, as it would require either a protracted absence from his domestic circle, which he loved so well, or a residence in St. Paul, for which the salary of Governor was inadequate. He did, however, at the solicitation of his fellow citizens of St. Peter, consent to run again for Senator from that district, and was re-elected for the sessions of 1864 and 1865, both of which he attended, and " did the State some service " on important and responsible committees.

During the session of 1865, a United States Senator was chosen, and Ex-Gov. Swift was urged to be a candidate for this position, but with his instinctive delicacy and modesty, he shrank from entering the lists, as he knew there were many

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unpleasant duties connected with thie position in the scramble for office where he would be expected to satisfy all, and only incur the enmity of many. He finally yielded to the impor- tunities of his friends, and but a few days before the nominat- ing caucus consented to the use of his name, but even then put forth no efforts on his own behalf. Another person, however, was chosen. It has always been conceded that had he made any effort to secure the office, he would have been elected. Speaking of it to a friend subsequently, he said he was gl,ad he was not elected, " for," he continued, " I shall be ten times happier with my family at St. Peter, than as Senator at Wash- ington." Perhaps there never was a man more tenderly or de- votedly attached to his family than Gov. Swift, and the above is only an instance of the sacrifices he made that he might not be compelled to forego their society.

During the year 1865 he received the appointment of Regis- ter at the St. Peter Land Office, which position he held at the time of his death. The appointment was entirely unsolicited, but it was the only public position he ever really enjoyed, as it enabled him to remain in that quiet home that to him was the Eden of Earth.

In 1864 he had lost a daughter of eight years, and a son of four years, and in 1866, another child was snatched away. These bereavements afflicted him deeply, as he was tenderly attached to his children. His friends assert that it cast an in- etfacable shadow upon his life, and probably added to his dis- like of public office, or any position that would deprive him of the society of his wife and two remaining daughters who sur- vive him. On them his whole affections now centered.

In February last, he was taken very ill with typhoid fever, and for some days his life was threatened. He then seemed to rally, and it was thought had passed the critical point and would recover. His friends throughout the State received this intelligence with much joy. It was of brief duration, however. On the evening of Wednesday, February 24, he suffered -a re- lapse, and rapidly grew worse until ten o'clock the next morn- ing, when he peacefully and calmly expired, surrounded by his heart-broken family and friends.

The intelligence of his death was received throughout the

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State with universal tokens of sorrow, evincing the high respect felt for him by men of all parties, and eulogies of the warmest character were published in almost every Minnesota journal. Perhaps never has the death of a citizen of our State excited more general regret, or called forth more spontaneous tributes to his past life and character. Governor Marshall, on Feb- ruary 25th, promptly transmitted to both houses of the Legis- lature, a copy of the telegram received by him announcing Ex- Gov. Swift's death, whereupon both houses at once adjourned, as a token of respect to his memory. On the 26th, Gov. Marshall ^ent in the following message :

State of Minnesota, Executive Department, Saint Paul, February 26, 1869. To the Senate and House of Bepresentativea :

A brief telegram transmitted to you yesterday conveyed the sorrowful news of the death of Ex-Governor Henry A. Swift, which occured at his home in St. Peter, Thursday morning, the 25th instant.

No such sad and painful duty has before fallen to me, during my public service, as this announcement of the death of one who had so honorably oc- cupied the highest oflSce in the State, and who was respected and beloved by our whole people.

The death of Governor Swift is indeed a public loss, and it is fitting that you should, by appropriate official action, testify the public sorrow. Pos- sessed as he was of rare capacity for public usefulness and of eminent public virtues, it was not too much to hope that in the coming years— for he had scarcely reached the meridian of life— his mature powers would be of fur- ther eminent service to the State.

This profoundly affiictive providence falls with crushing weight upon the family of the deceased. While our sorroxo is that of the public, mourning the loss of one who had been eminent In the public service, and whom many of us had loved as a personal friend, it is to his wife and children an altogether irreparable and life-overshadowing loss. I know it will be your wish to testify to those sorrowing ones, who were nearest and dearest to the depart- ed, the public appreciation of their loss, in such terms as may possibly miti- gate, in some slight degree, the grief which God alone can assuage.

I recommend the joint action of the two houses of the Legislature in honor of the memory of the deceased, and in condolence with his afllicted family.

RespectfuUy,

Wm. R. Marshall.

The following concurrent resolutions were, on March 1st,

adopted by both bodies :

Beaolved, By the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring. That this Legislature has heard with profound sorrow of the death of Ex-Governor Henry A. Swift, notice of which event has been communicated by a special message of his Excellency the Governor of this State.

Resolved, That by this dispensation, the State has lost a useful and honoi'ed citizen, whose life was without guile, and whose public and private career was iUustrated and adorned by every manly virtue, his past services consti- tute a bright chapter in the history of the State, and gave promise of still

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greater usetulness to the public service, and of higher honors in a wider and more extended sphere of action.

Resolved, Tliat this Legislature tenders to the family and friends of the deceased, its sympathy and condolence in this hour of their supreme afflic- tion, and conveys to them the assurance that while they mourn the loss of a tender husband, an affectionate father, and a constant friend, the State regards his death in the midst of his years and at the maturity of his powers, as a great public calamity, and will ever cherish the memory of Henry A. Swift as one of the most honored, trusted, and useful servants of the commonwealth.

Resolved, That the resolutions be entered upon the journal of either house of the Legislature, and that a copy of the same be sent to the widow of the deceased, by the Secretary of the Senate.

In his own commnnity, where he was so well known and so universally and warmly beloved, his death produced a sadness