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  • Minnesota Historical Collections . VOL. I.
  • PREFACE TO THIS EDITION.
  • THE MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
  • CHARTER. “AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA.”
  • OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.
  • OFFICERS SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY.
  • OBJECTS OF COLLECTION DESIRED.
  • CONTENTS.
  • THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS TO MINNESOTA DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
  • DESCRIPTION OF MINNESOTA._ast; BY HON. H.H. SIBLEY.
  • OUR FIELD OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH.
  • ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA TERRITORY.
  • MEMORIAL TO HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES K. POLK, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
  • SPEECH OF HON. H. H. SIBLEY, OF MINN.,
  • EARLY COURTS OF MINNESOTA. BY HON AARON GOODRICH.
  • EARLY SCHOOLS OF MINNESOTA. BY D. A. J. BAKER.
  • RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN MINNESOTA. BY REV. C. HOBART [1851].
  • THE DAKOTA LANGUAGE. BY REV. S. R. RIGGS.
  • A MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF MINNESOTA. BY HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT, L. L. D.
  • LETTER FROM PROF. W. W. MATHER, THE GEOLOGIST._ast;
  • LETTER OF MESNARD.
  • ST. LOUIS RIVER. BY REV. T.M. FULLERTON.
  • ANCIENT MOUNDS AND MONUMENTS. IOWA INDIANS AND MOUNDS; BY REV. G.H. POND.
  • SCHOOLCRAFT'S EXPLORING TOUR OF 1832. BY REV. W. T. BOUTWELL.
  • BATTLE OF LAKE POKEGUMA. AS NARRATED RY AN EYE WITNESS.—BY REV. E. D. NEILL.
  • MEMOIR OF JEAN N. NICOLLET. BY HON. HENRY H. SIBLEY.
  • A SKETCH OF JOSEPH RESVILLE. A “BOIS BRULE,” AND EARLY TRADER OF MINNESOTA. BY REV. E. D. NEILL.
  • DEPARTMENT OF HUDSON'S BAY. BY REV. G. A. BELCOURT._ast;
  • OBITUARY OF JAMES M. GOODHUE. BY REV. E. D. NEILL.
  • DAKOTA LAND AND DAKOTA LIFE. BY E. D. NEILL.
  • WHO WERE THE FIRST MEN? BY REV. T. S. WILLIAMSON, M. D.
  • LOUIS HENNEPIN, THE FRANCISCAN. FIRST EXPLORER OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
  • SIEUR DULUTH. THE EXPLORER BETWEEN MILLE LACS AND LAKE SUPERIOR.
  • LE SUEUR'S EXPLORATIONS. LE SUEUR.—THE EXPLORER OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER.
  • D'IBERVILLE. AN ABSTRACT OF HIS MEMORIAL ON THE COUNTRY OF THE MISSISSIPPI._ast;
  • THE FOX AND OJIBWA WAR.
  • CAPT. JONATHAN CARVER, AND HIS EXPLORATIONS. FROM THE “MATERIALS FOR MINNESOTA HISTORY”—1856.
  • PIKE'S EXPLORATIONS IN MINNESOTA, 1805–6.
  • WHO DISCOVERED ITASCA LAKE? LETTER OF WM. MORRISON, AN EARLY INDIAN TRADER.
  • EARLY DAYS AT FORT SNELLING.
  • RUNNING THE GANTLET. A THRILLING INCIDENT OF EARLY DAYS AT FORT SNELLING._ast;
  • REMINISCENCES; HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL. ANNUAL ADDRESS, BY HON. H. H. SIBLEY, FEB. 1ST 1856.
  • CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.
  • GENERAL INDEX.

    • Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volume 1

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    Minnesota Historical Collections .
    VOL. I.

    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
    323705
    NOV 26 1895




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    10-20866 r97. General Collections, Library of Congress. Copyright status not determined; refer to accompanying matter.

    This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Minnesota Historical Society. It is chronologically indexed, and reprints materials by some of Minnesota territory's leading residents, including Henry Hastings Sibley, Alexander Ramsay, and William J. Snelling, originally published in five pamphlets from 1850 to 1856. The Society was organized in 1849 by the fifth Act of Minnesota's first territorial legislature, and there is information here about its formation and about the region's most notable historical events and cultural characteristics. The Rev. Edward Duffield Neill's address at the first annual meeting summarizes the seventeenth-century explorations by French missionaries and traders in the Upper Midwest. Many other accounts of exploration and discovery follow, ranging from Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's expedition in 1852 to memoirs and biographical sketches of such key figures as Nicolet, Reveille, Hennepin, Le Sueur, D'Iberville, Pike and Carver. There is material on Native American antiquities and cultural practices, the Dakota language, and the Fox and Ojibwe War, and on the establishment of schools, courts, and religious institutions.

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