Minnesota in Three Centuries, 1655-1908: Description and explorations, by W. UphamPublishing society of Minnesota, 1908 - Minnesota |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Anthony area of Minnesota arrived Assiniboines Beltrami Blue Earth river bluff boats boundary called Canada canoe Carver Cass Chequamegon bay chief Crees Croix Dakota east explorers Falls of St farther feet ffor Fort Snelling France French Frenchmen fur trade Geological Glacial Grand Portage Groseilliers and Radisson Hennepin Hudson bay hundred hunting Hurons ice-sheet Iroquois Itasca Jesuit journey killed Lake Pepin Lake Superior Lake Winnipeg land later leagues Louisiana Luth miles Mille Lacs Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota river Mississippi river Montreal mounds mountains mouth narration narrative nation nearly northern Northwest Ojibways Ottawas passed Paul Perrot Pike Prairie island present probably published Rainy lake Red river region rocks Salle Schoolcraft shore side Sioux streams Sueur surveys thence tion trading post traveled upper Mississippi valley Verendrye village volume voyage weare wildmen Winchell winter Wisconsin Woods
Popular passages
Page 203 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime! I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time...
Page 382 - At the base of this wall there is a level prairie, of half a mile in width, running parallel to it ; in any and all parts of which the Indians procure the red stone for their pipes, by digging through the soil and several slaty layers of the red stone, to the depth of four or five feet.* From the very numerous marks of ancient and modern diggings or excavations, it would appear that this place has been for many centuries resorted to for the red stone ; and from the great number of graves and...
Page 218 - These Indians surrounded us, and while at a distance, discharged some arrows at us, but as they approached our canoe, the old men seeing us with the calumet of peace in our hands, prevented the young men from killing us. These brutal men, leaping from their canoes, some on land, others into the water with frightful cries and yells, approached us, and as we made no resistance, being only three against so great a number, one of them wrenched our •calumet from our hands, while our canoe and theirs...
Page 320 - OLMSTED COUNTY This county, established February 20, 1855, was named in honor of David Olmsted, first mayor of St. Paul, in 1854, who in 1855 removed to Winona, in the county of that name, adjoining Olmsted county. He was born in Fairfax, Vt., May 5, 1822; came to the Northwest, first to the Wisconsin lead mining region, in 1838; was a pioneer settler of Monona, Iowa, in 1840; engaged in trading with the Indians at Fort Atkinson, Iowa, in 1844; was a member of the convention which framed the state...
Page 340 - Croix, * also from below the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Peters, up the Mississippi, to include the Falls of St. Anthony, extending nine miles on each side of the river, that the Sioux Nation grants to the United States the full sovereignty and power over said district forever.
Page 178 - Our songs being finished, we began our teeth to worke. We had there a kinde of rice, much like oats. It growes in the waiter in 3 or 4 foote deepe.
Page 226 - Toward the end of September, having no implements to begin an establishment, we resolved to tell these people, that for their benefit, we would have to return to the French settlements. The grand chief of the Issati, or Nadouessiouz, consented, and traced in pencil on a paper I gave him, the route we should take for four hundred leagues. With this chart, we set out, eight Frenchmen, in two canoes, and descended the rivers St.
Page 154 - They have great calumetts of great stones, red & greene. They make a store of tobacco. They have a kind of drink that makes them mad for a whole day.
Page 184 - We being arrived among the nation of the beefe, we wondred to finde ourselves in a towne where weare great cabbans most covered with skins and other close matts. They tould us that there weare 7,000 men. This we believed. Those have as many wives as they can keepe. If any one did trespasse upon the other, his nose was cutt off, and often the crowne of his head.
Page 120 - Savages have assured us that this is so noble a river that, at more than three hundred leagues' distance from its mouth it is larger than the one flowing before Quebec, for they declare that it is more than a league wide. They also state that all this vast stretch of country consists of nothing but treeless prairies, — so that its inhabitants are all...