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Book/Printed MaterialFifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents and notes. William Henry Carman Folsom (1817-1900), Minnesota legislator, businessman, and historian, emigrated from Maine to the Upper Midwest when he was nineteen years old. There he lived the rest of his life, achieving prominence in the lumber business and other related activities. His autobiography provides a detailed history of Minnesota, county by county, with a particular emphasis on the region's most prominent men and the...
- Contributor: Edwards, E. E. (Elijah Evan) - Folsom, William H. C. (William Henry Carman)
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialFifty years in America Nils Nilsen Rønning (1870-1962) emigrated from Norway to Minnesota in 1887 to settle with his brother, who had emigrated previously. Fifty Years in America narrates Rønning's cultural adjustment and education at Red Wing Seminary and the University of Minnesota, his spiritual development, and his involvement with the Lutheran Church in Minnesota. In discussing the latter, he focuses on different schools of thought in the...
- Contributor: Rønning, N. N. (Nils Nilsen)
- Date: 1938
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Book/Printed MaterialFifty years on the firing line, James W. Witham, born in 1856, was a journalist and advocate for the rights and concerns of farmers. In Fifty Years on the Firing Line, Witham traces his childhood in Ohio and his political coming of age in the Midwest during the mid-nineteenth century. While working as a farm laborer in Nebraska and Iowa, Witham started canvassing for farmer's rights in a farmer's paper,...
- Contributor: Witham, James W.
- Date: 1924
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Book/Printed MaterialFifty memorable years at St. Olaf, marking the history of the "College on the hill" from its founding in 1874 to its golden jubilee celebration in 1925. This booklet of newspaper articles and photographs, reprinted from the Northfield News, chronicles the first fifty years of St. Olaf college with an emphasis on its relationship to the Norwegian ("Norse") immigrant experience, especially in Minnesota. There is statistical information here about Minnesotans of Norse background, their occupations and their population. Grose tells why so many Norwegians emigrated from the 1840s through the 1860s,...
- Contributor: Grose, I. F.
- Date: 1925
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Book/Printed MaterialThirty years in the itinerancy, These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waupun, Wisconsin. Because he already had teaching experience as a Methodist, he was soon persuaded to take temporary charge of the Brothertown Indian Mission on the eastern shore of...
- Contributor: Miller, W. G. (Wesson Gage)
- Date: 1875
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Book/Printed MaterialWau-bun, the early day in the Northwest. This book recounts the experiences of a young, genteel wife adjusting to the military life and frontier conditions of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her perilous journeys back and forth to the early settlement of Chicago, her complex cultural encounters with a diverse frontier society, and her determination to instill her own standards of civilized behavior and Christian...
- Contributor: Kinzie, John H.
- Date: 1873
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Book/Printed MaterialThe French regime in Wisconsin. Vol. I (v. 16): This volume is the first of three volumes devoted to the era of French dominance in the fur trade region of the upper Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi (1634-1763), emphasizing the period between 1634 and 1727. Documents are arranged chronologically with the last entries dating from 1727. Much of the material is from the Jesuit Relations and is summarized...
- Contributor: State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold
- Date: 1902
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Book/Printed MaterialThe British regime in Wisconsin. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold
- Date: 1908
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Book/Printed MaterialThe boundaries of Wisconsin Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
- Contributor: State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialAmerican Fur Company invoices, 1821-22 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: American Fur Company - State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal 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. This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region are considered milestones in nineteenth-century ethnography. After a childhood in Hamilton, New York, Schoolcraft gained attention for the reports and journals he wrote on trips west to explore mineral deposits in Arkansas,...
- Contributor: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1851
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Book/Printed MaterialSummer on the lakes, in 1843.
Summer on the lakes Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist movement in New England. This is her introspective account of a trip to the Great Lakes region in 1843. Organized as a series of travel episodes interspersed with literary and social commentary, the work displays a...- Contributor: Fuller, Margaret
- Date: 1844
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Book/Printed MaterialThe dual origin of Minnesota "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 10, 1899." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Davis, Samuel M. (Samuel McClellan)
- Date: 1901
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based upon official and other records Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
- Contributor: Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield) - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1885
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Book/Printed MaterialThe unfinished autobiography of Henry Hastings Sibley, together with a selection of hitherto unpublished letters from the thirties. This account focuses on the fur trade experiences of Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), better known as commander of the military forces suppressing the Sioux [Dakota] uprisings of 1862 and 1863, and, in 1858, Minnesota's first governor. Sibley was born in Detroit to a prominent family of New England ancestry but spurned a settled life in that community for a more adventurous career, including a...
- Contributor: Blegen, Theodore Christian - Sibley, Henry Hastings
- Date: 1932
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Book/Printed MaterialFive years in Minnesota. Sketches of life in a western state. Maurice Farrar was an Englishman authorized by Minnesota in 1880 to act as an Agent for the promotion of Immigration through lecturing in Great Britain. He spent five years in Minnesota during the late 1870s and, upon his return home, published this promotional work extolling the farming life there. The preface makes clear his intention of encouraging inhabitants of Britain to emigrate to a...
- Contributor: Farrar, J. Maurice
- Date: 1880
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Book/Printed MaterialA summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summer resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the routes by which they can be reached. This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gogebic, Marquette, and Menominee are included, as are the Minnesota towns of Stillwater, Lake Madison, and Waseca. The information in the entries is not always consistent, but usually includes sites of interest, hotels and rooming houses...
- Contributor: Chicago and North Western Railway Company
- Date: 1884
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Book/Printed MaterialImportant Western state papers. "... State papers, having an immediate bearing on the early history of the West ..."--p. 26. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Thwaites, Reuben Gold
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialFloral home; or, First years of Minnesota: early sketches, later settlements, and further developments.
Floral home | First years of Minnesota Harriet E. Bishop (1817-1883) emigrated to Minnesota from New England in 1847. She was recruited by Catherine Beecher's Board of National Popular Education to establish a school in St. Paul, Minnesota and to serve as its first formal teacher, reaching students of French, English, Swiss, Sioux, Chippewa, and African-American backgrounds. Her book, Floral Home, is divided into three components: "Early Sketches," "Later Settlements," and...- Contributor: Bishop, Harriet E.
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed Material"Three score years and ten": life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the West, Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve (1819-1907) was the daughter of a U.S. Army officer, one of the first group of soldiers assigned to establish a fort in what was then known to whites as the Northwest. This was Fort Snelling, situated at the mouth of the St. Peter's [Minnesota] river in territory which eventually became the state of Minnesota. Van Cleve's book is a memoir...
- Contributor: Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialPapers from the Canadian archives, 1767-1814. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 12 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1767-1814, while v. 11 has papers dealing with the period 1778-1783. Includes bibliographical references.
- Contributor: Public Archives of Canada - Haldimand, Frederick - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1892
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Book/Printed MaterialPapers from the Canadian archives, 1778-1783. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 11 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1778-1783, while v. 12 has papers dealing with the period 1767-1814. Includes bibliographical references.
- Contributor: Public Archives of Canada - Haldimand, Frederick - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialFur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815. "From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Askin, John
- Date: 1910
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the United States : extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River, performed as ...
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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to locate the Mississippi River's sources, to explore the Great Lakes region, and to describe its significant topographical features, natural history, and mineral wealth. Schoolcraft joined the expedition as a mineralogist, and this...- Contributor: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1821
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Book/Printed MaterialA summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior. Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing areas of the northern Midwest and Canada. This book shares highlights of his 1846 trip by steamship and canoe north from St. Louis to Rock Island, Nauvoo, Prairie du Chien and onward to Lake Pepin...
- Contributor: Lanman, Charles
- Date: 1847
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