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  • EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
  • PREFACE.
  • CONTENTS.
  • ILLUSTRATIONS.
  • RAILROAD LEGISLATION IN MINNESOTA, 1849 to 1875._ast;
  • THE FIVE MILLION LOAN._ast;
  • THE BEGINNING OF RAILROAD BUILDING IN MINNESOTA._ast;
  • THE KENSINGTON RUNE STONE. Preliminary Report to the Minnesota Historical Society by its Museum Committee ._ast;
  • APPENDIX. Professor Flom's Investigation .
  • THE PUBLIC LANDS AND SCHOOL FUND OF MINNESOTA._ast;
  • EARLY DAKOTA TRAILS AND SETTLEMENTS AT CENTERVILLE, MINN._ast;
  • REMINISCENCES OF THE LITTLE CROW UPRISING._ast;
  • BOYHOOD REMEMBRANCES OF LIFE AMONG THE DAKOTAS AND THE MASSACRE IN 1862._ast;
  • NARRATIVES OF THE SIOUX WAR._ast;
  • HISTORICAL NOTES OF GREY CLOUD ISLAND AND ITS VICINITY._ast;
  • NORTHERN MINNESOTA BOUNDARY SURVEYS IN 1822 TO 1826, UNDER THE TREATY OF GHENT._ast;
  • THE SALE OF FORT SNELLING, 1857._ast;
  • A RED RIVER TOWNSITE SPECULATION IN 1857._ast;
  • EXPERIENCES IN SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA, 1859 TO 1867._ast;
  • MEMORIES OF THE EARLY LIFE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MINNESOTA._ast;
  • REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY DAYS OF MINNESOTA, 1851 TO 1861._ast;
  • EARLY DAYS IN MINNEAPOLIS._ast;
  • A SHEAF OF REMEMBRANCES._ast;
  • REMINISCENCES OF MINNESOTA POLITICS._ast;
  • HISTORY OF THE PARKS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS OF MINNEAPOLIS._ast;
  • HISTORY OF THE PARKS AND PUBLIC GROUNDS OF ST. PAUL._ast;
  • NATHANIEL PITT LANGFORD,_ast;
  • BIOGRAPHIC MEMORIAL OF DR. CHARLES N. HEWITT._ast;
  • GENERAL JAMES SHIELDS, Soldier, Orator, Statesman ._ast;
  • ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE STATUE OF GENERAL SHIELDS, IN THE Capitol of Minnesota , October 20, 1914.
  • ADDRESSES ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE PORTRAIT OF PROFESSOR JABEZ BROOKS.
  • MEMORIAL ADDRESS IN HONOR OF GOVERNOR JOHNSON._ast;
  • GENERAL JAMES HEATON BAKER. Memorials presented in the Meeting of the Executive Council, September 8, 1913.
  • LOREN WARREN COLLINS.
  • FRANCIS MARION CROSBY.
  • CLARENCE CHRISTOPHER DINEHART.
  • WILLIAM HOOD DUNWOODY.
  • SAMUEL BOWDLEAR GREEN.
  • LUCIUS FREDERICK HUBBARD. A Memorial Presented by the Secretary .
  • DAVID LANSING KINGSBURY.
  • NATHANIEL PITT LANGFORD. Memorials Presented in the Annual Meeting, January 8, 1912.
  • AMBROSE McNULTY. Memorials Presented in the Council Meeting, March 13, 1911.
  • EDWARD CRAIG MITCHELL. Born July 21, 1836; Died December 8, 1911. Memorials Presented in the Council Meeting, December 11, 1911.
  • WILLIAM PITT MURRAY. Born June 21, 1825; Died June 20, 1910.
  • CHANNING SEABURY.
  • SAMUEL RICHARD THAYER.
  • HENRY PRATT UPHAM. Memorials in the Council Meeting, November 8, 1909.
  • HENRY CHESTER WAITE.
  • WILLIAM DREW WASHBURN. A Memorial Presented by the Secretary .
  • FREDERICK WEYERHAEUSER.
  • NEWTON HORACE WINCHELL. Memorials in the Council Meeting, May 11, 1914 .
  • OTHER DECEASED MEMBERS, 1909–14.
  • INDEX.

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    COLLECTIONS
    OF THE
    MINNESOTA
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY

    THE VOLKSZEITUNG
    ST. PAUL. MINN.




    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 begins with three articles about railroads in Minnesota. The first, by Rasmus S. Saby, looks at the history of the state's railroad legislation from 1849 to 1875, and chronicles the granger movement as an expression of farmers' desire to curb the railroads' concentrated wealth and power through the political process. Under public pressure, the Minnesota legislature passed regulatory legislation (the granger laws) in 1874, but repealed it the following year. The second article describes the funding of railroads through land grants and public loans, while the third article concerns the railroads' early corporate history and construction. The volume continues with a report on the Kensington Rune Stone by the Society's museum committee. Sometimes regarded as a hoax, the Rune Stone was discovered in 1898 by a Swedish farmer on his property near Alexandria, and touted as evidence that Vikings had reached the American heartland. Other items concern pioneer and Native American relations. There is a narrative of the Sioux conflict led by Little Crow (1862-1863), and two related reminiscences by authors who lived among the Sioux: Dr. Asa W. Daniels (1829-1923), a pioneer physician, and John Ames Humphrey, who remembers the slaughter of his family at the Lower Sioux Agency. There are also discussions of the public lands and their role in creating Minnesota's school fund, northern Minnesota boundary surveys (1822-1826) after the Treaty of Ghent (1814), a memoir of state politics by Henry A Castle (1836-1917), and material on the sale of Fort Snelling (1857). Other local history articles concern Grey Cloud Island, the Red River region, Centerville, and parks and public grounds in Minneapolis and St. Paul. A biography of Nathaniel Pitt Langford (1832-1911), the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, highlights his contributions as an explorer of the Yellowstone region and his involvement with Montana's vigilante movement. It is written by Olin Dunbar Wheeler (1852-1925), who himself served as topographer for the Powell Expedition to the Grand Canyon in 1870. The volume also includes memorial articles on local and regional notables as well as obituaries for Historical Society members who died between 1909 and the end of 1914. The volume is indexed.

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