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1839. April 14th, the first steamboat at Fort Snelling, the Ariel, Capt. Lyon.
Henry M. Rice arrives at Fort Snelling.
May 2d, Rev. E. G. Gear, of the Protestant Episcopal church, recently appointed chaplain, ar- rived at Fort Snelling in the steamboat Gipsy.
May 12th, steamboat Fayette arrives on the St. Croix, having been at Fort Snelling, with members of Marine Mill Company.
May 21st, the Glancus, Gapt. Atchinson, arrives
at Fort Snelling.
June 1st, the Pennsylvania, Capt. Stone, arrives at Fort Snelling.
June 5th, the Glancus arrives again.
June 6th, the Ariel arrives.
June 12th, at Lake Harriet mission, Rev. D. Gavin, Swiss missionary among the Sioux at Red Wing, was married to Cordelia Stevens, teacher at Lake Harriet mission.
June 25th, steamboat "Knickerbocker," arrived at Fort Snelling.
June 26th, steamboat Ariel, on third trip.
June 27th, a train of Red River carts, under Mr. Sinclair, with emigrants, who encamped near the fort.
July 2d, Chippeways killed a Sioux of Lake Cal- houn band.
July 3d, Sioux attack Chippeways in ravine above Stillwater.
1840. April, Rev. Lucian Galtier, of the Roman Catholic church, arrives at Mendota.
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May 6th, squatters removed on military reser- vation.
June 15th, Thomas Simpson, Artic explorer, shoots himself near Turtle River, under aberration of the mind.
June 17th, four Chippeways kill and scalp & Sioux man and woman.
1841. March 6th, wild geese appeared at the fort.
March 20th, Mississippi opened.
April 6th, steamboat Otter, Capt. Harris, arrived. Kaboka, an old chief of Lake Calhoun band, killed by Chippeways.
May 24th, Sioux attack Chippeways at Lake Pokeguma, of Snake river. Methodist mission moved from Kaposia to Red Rock, Rev. B. F. Kavenaugh, superintendent.
November 1st, Father Galtier completes the log chapel of St. Paul, which gave the name to the capital of Minnesota. Rev. Augustin Ravoux ar- rives.
1842. July, the Chippeways attack the Kapo- sia Sioux.
1843. Stillwater laid out. Ayer, Spencer and Ely establish a Chippeway mission at Red lake.
July 15th, Thomas Longly, brother-in-law of Rev. S. R. Riggs, drowned at Traverse des Sioux mission station.
1844. August, Captain Allen with fifty dra- goons marches from Fort Des Moines through southwestern Minnesota, and on the 10th of Sep- tember reaches the Big Sioux River. Sisseton war party kill an American named Watson, driving cattle to Fort Snelling.
1845. June 25th, Captain Sumner reaches Traverse des Sioux, and proceeding northward arrested three of the murderers of Watson.
1846. Dr. Williamson, Sioux missionary, moves from Lac-qui-parle to Kaposia. March 31st, steamboat Lynx, Capt. Atchinson, arrives at Fort Snelling.
1847. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, organized. Stillwater the county seat. Harriet E. Bishop establishes a school at St. Paul. Saw-mills begun at St. Anthony Falls.
August, Commissioner Verplanck and Henry M. Rice make treaties with the Chippeways at Fond du Lac and Leech Lake. The town of St. Paul surveyed, platted, and recorded in the St. Croix county Register of Deeds office.
1848. Henry H. Sibley Delegate to Congress from Wisconsin territory.
May 29th, Wisconsin admitted, leaving Minne- sota (with its present boundaries) without a gov- ernment.
August 26th, "Stillwater convention" held to take measures for a separate territorial organiza- tion.
October 30th, H. H. Sibley, elected Delegate to Congress.
1849. March, act of Congress creating Minne- sota Territory.
April 9th, Highland Mary, Capt. Atchinson, ar- rives at St. Paul.
April 18th, James M. Goodhue arrives at St. Paul with first newspaper press.
May 27th, Gov. Alexander Ramsey arrives at Mendota.
June 1st, Gov. Ramsey issues proclamation de- claring the territory duly organized.
August 1st, H. H. Sibley elected Delegate to Congress from Minnesota.
September 3d, first Legislature convened.
November, First Presbyterian church, St. Paul, organized.
December, first literary address at Falls of St. Anthony.
1850. January 1st, Historical Society meeting. June 11th, Indian council at Fort Snelling.
June 14th, steamer Governor Ramsey makes first trip above Falls of St. Anthony.
June 26th, the Anthony Wayne reaches the Falls of St. Anthony.
July 18th, steamboat Anthony Wayne ascends the Minnesota to the vicinity of Traverse des Sioux.
July 25th, steamboat Yankee goes beyond Blue Earth River.
September, H. H. Sibley elected Delegate to Congress.
October, Fredrika Bremer, Swedish novelist visits Minnesota.
November, the Dakotah Friend, a monthly pa- per appeared.
December, Colonel D. A. Robertson establishes Minnesota Democrat.
December 26th, first public Thanksgiving Day. 1851. May, St. Anthony Express newspaper begins its career.
July, treaty concluded with the Sioux at Tra- verse des Sioux.
July, Rev. Robert Hopkins, Sioux missionary drowned.
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August, treaty concluded with the Sioux at Mankato.
September 19th, the Minnesotian, of St. Paul, edited by J. P. Owens, appeared.
November, Jerome Fuller, Chief Justice in place of Aaron Goodrich, arrives.
December 18th, Thanksgiving Day.
1852. Hennepin county created. February 14th, Dr. Rae, Arctic explorer, arrives
at St. Paul with dog train.
May 14th, land slide at Stillwater.
August, James M. Goodhue, pioneer editor, dies. November, Yuhazee, an Indian, convicted of murder.
1853. April 27th, Chippewas and Sioux fight in streets of St. Paul. Governor Willis A. Gor- man succeeds Governor Ramsey.
October, Henry M. Rice elected delegate to con- gress. The capitol building completed.
1854. March 3d, Presbyterian mission house near Lac-qui-parle burned.
June 8th, great excursion from Chicago to St. Paul and St. Anthony Falls.
December 27th, Yuhazee, the Indian, hung at St. Paul.
1855. January, first bridge over Mississippi completed at Falls of St. Anthony.
October, H. M. Rice re-elected to Congress.
December 12, James Stewart arrives in St. Paul direct from Arctic regions, with relics of Sir John Franklin.
1856. Erection of State University building was begun.
1857. Congress passes an act authorizing peo- ple of Minnesota to vote for a constitution.
March. Inkpadootah slaughters settlers in south west Minnesota.
Governor Samuel Medary succeeds Governor W. A. Gorman.
March 5th. Land-grant by congress for rail- ways.
April 27th. Special session of legislature con- venes.
July. On second Monday convention to form a constitution assembles at Capitol.
October 13th. Election for State officers, and ratifying of the constitution.
H. H. Sibley first governor under the State con- stitution.
December. On first Wednesday, first State legislature assembles. .
December. Henry M. Rice and James Shields elected United States senators.
1858, April 15th. People approve act of legis- lature loaning the public credit for five millions of dollars to certain railway companies.
May 11th. Minnesota becomes one of the United States of America.
June 2d. Adjourned meeting of legislature held.
November. Supreme court of State orders Gov- ernor Sibley to issue Railroad bonds.
1859. Normal school law passed.
June. Burbank and Company place the first steamboart on Red River of the North.
August. Bishop T. L. Grace arrived in St. Paul.
1859. October 11th, State election, Alexander Ramsey chosen governor.
1860. March 23d, Anna Bilanski hung at St. Paul for the murder of her husband, the first white person executed in Minnesota.
1861. April 14th, Governor Ramsey calls upon President in Washington and offers a regiment of volunteera.
June 21st, First Minnesota Regiment, Col. W. A. Gorman, leaves for Washington.
July 21st, First Minnesota in battle of Bull Run.
October 13th, Second Minnesota Infantry, Col. H. P. Van Cleve, leaves Fort Snelling.
November 16th, Third Minnesota Infantry, H. C. Lester, go to seat of war.
1862. January 19th, Second Minnesota in bat- tle at Mill Spring, Kentucky.
April 6th. First Minnesota Battery, Captain Munch, at Pittsburg Landing.
April 21st, Second Minnesota Battery goes to seat of war.
April 21st, Fourth Minnesota Infantry Volun- teers. Col. J. B. Sanborn, leaves Fort Snelling.
May 13th, Fifth Regiment Volunteers, Col. Bor- gensrode, leaves for the seat of war.
May 28th, Second, Fourth, and Fifth in battle near Corinth, Mississippi.
May 31st, First Minnesota in battle at Fair Oaks, Virginia.
June 29th, First Minnesota in battle at Savage Station.
June 30th, First Minnesota in battle near Wil- lis' Church.
July 1st, First Minnesota in battle at Malvern Hill.
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August, Sixth Regiment, Col. Crooks, organized. August, Seventh Regiment, Col. Miller, organ- ized.
August, Eighth Regiment, Col, Thomas, organ- ized.
August, Ninth Regiment, Col. Wilkin, organ- ized.
August 18th, Sioux attack whites at lower Sioux Agency.
September 23d, Col. Sibley defeats Sioux at Mud Lake.
December 26th, Thirty-eight Sioux executed on the same scaffold at Mankato.
1863. January, Alexander Ramsey elected United States Senator.
May 14th, Fourth and Fifth Regiment in battle near Jackson, Mississippi.
July 2d, First Minnesota Infantry in battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
September 19th, Second Minnesota Infantry en- gaged at Chickamauga, Tennessee.
November 23d, Second Minnesota Infantry en- gaged at Mission Ridge.
1864. January, Col. Stephen Miller inaugur- ated Governor of Minnesota.
March 30th; Third Minnesota Infantry engaged at Fitzhugh's Wooods.
June 6th, Fifth Minnesota Infantry engaged at Lake Chicot, Arkansas.
July 13th, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth, with por- tion of the Fifth Minnesota Infantry, engaged at Tupelo, Mississippi.
July 14th, Col. Alex. Wilkin, of the Ninth, killed.
October 15th, Fourth Regiment engaged near Altoona, Georgia.
December 7th, Eighth Regiment engaged near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Regiments at Nashville, Tennessee.
1865. January 10th, Daniel S. Norton, elected United States Senator.
April 9th, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth at the siege of Mobile.
November 10th, Shakpedan, Sioux chief, and Medicine Bottle executed at Fort Snelling.
1866. January 8th, Col. William R. Marshall inaugurated Governor of Minnesota.
1867. Preparatory department of the State University opened.
1868. January, Governor Marshall enters upon second term.
1869. Bill passed by legislature, removing sea of Government to spot near Big Kandiyohi Lake -vetoed by Governor Marshall.
1870. January 7th, Horace Austin inaugurated as Governor.
1871. January, Wm. Windom elected United States Senator. In the fall destructive fires, oc- casioned by high winds, swept over frontier coun- ties.
1872. January, Governor Austin enters upon a second term.
1873. January 7th, 8th, and 9th, polar wave sweeps over the State, seventy persons perishing.
May 22d, the senate of Minnesota convicts State Treasurer of corruption in office.
September, grasshopper raid began, and con- tinned five seasons. Jay Cooke failure occasions a financial panic.
1874. January 9th, Cushman K. Davis inaug. urated Governor. William S. King elected to con- gress.
1875. February 19th, S. J. R. McMillan elected United States senator.
November, amendment to State constitution, al- lowing any women twenty-one years of age to vote for school officers, and to be eligible for school of- fices. Rocky Mountain locusts destroy crops in southwestern Minnesota.
1876. January 7th, John S. Pillsbury inaug- urated Governor.
September, 6th, outlaws from Missouri kill the cashier of the Northfield Bank.
1879. November, State constitution amended forbidding public moneys to be used for the sup- port of schools wherein the distinctive creeds or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect are taught. J. H. Stewart, M. D., elected to congress. Biennial sessions of the legislature adopted.
1878. January, Governor Pillsbury enters upon a second term.
May 2d, explosion in the Washburn and other flour mills at Minneapolis. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars appropriated to purchase seed grain for destitute settlers.
1880. November 15th, a portion of the Insane Asylum at St. Peter was destroyed by fire, and twenty-seven inmates lost their lives.
1881. March 1st, Capitol at St. Paul destroyed by fire.
November. Lucius F. Hubbard elected Gov- ernor.
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EXPLORERS AND PIONEERS OF MINNESOTA.
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Abraham, Plains of. 1
Bremer, Frederka, Swedish nov-
Notice of Ontanagon .. 7
Accault (Ako) Michael, compan-
ion of Hennepin, 10, 18, 20, 23, 24, Described by La Selle. 18
Leader of Mississippi Explo- rations . 19
Achiganaga arrested by Perrot ... 12 Tried for murder before Du Luth ... 13 Aionez, see Ioways
Trading Post at Lake Trav- erse .. 102 Keeps a grog shop for sol-
Albanel, Jesuit missionary at Sault St. Marie .. 11 diers ... 103 Day, Dr. David. 124
At Grey Cloud Island. 113
De Gonor, Jesuit, visits Lake Pepin 51,
58
Converses with Verendrye ... De la Barre, Governor, notices Du Luth ... 11
Anderson, Captain in British ser- vice ... 81 Andrews, Joseph, killed by Sisse- ton Sioux .. 92
Brunson, Rev. A., Methodist Mis- sionary . 111, 113
Brunson, B. W. 119
77 Brusky, Charles, Indian trader .. Bulwer. Sir E. L .. translation of Sioux Death Song. 67
Cameron, Murdock, sells liquor to Indians. 74
Campbell. Colin, interpreter. 92
Orders Du Luth to build a Fort ... 16 Bends for western allics. 30
84 Commissions Du Luth. 32 Denton, Rev. D., missionaly to Sioux ... 111 D'Esprit, Pierre, see Radisson ...
Balcombe, St. A. D 127 Balfour, Captain ... 62
Describes the fort at Green Bay. 61
Visits Winehago Village.
Visits Fox Village ... 64
Describes Prairie du Chien ... 64 nepin ..
Describes earth works at Lake Pepin ... 65 Dieskau, Baron. 61
66
Dickson, Col. Robert, visits Lt. Pike. 77
Trading post at Grand Rapids 78
At Mendota .. 78
Beltrami. G. C., notice of .. 93
Describes Minnesota river ... Describes funeral rites. 67 Translation of Bulwer and Herschell. .67, His alleged deed for Sioux
68
During war of 1812. 81 At Lake Traverse. 89 At Fort Snelling. 93. William, son of Robert .. 96
Du Chesneau, intendant of Can- ada, complains of Duluth 11
9 Du Luth, Daniel Greysolon, early life of .. Various spellings of his name 6
Charlevoix on La Hontan's fab- rications .. 86
On Le Sueur's mining opera-
Boisguillot, early trader on Wis- consin and Mississippi 32 Boucher, Pierre, described Lake 41 Superior copper mines 7 Establishes a Fort at Kaman- istigoya .. 9 Descends the St. Croix river Father of Sieur de Le Per- -- riere .. 51 Boudor trades with the Sioux ... 48 Attacked by the Foxes. 49 Clark, Lt. Nathan, at Fort Snel- ling .. 91 11, 112 Arrests and executes Indians at Sault St. Marie. 11 Brings allies to Niagara, for De la Barre ... 15 Letters from Gen. Gibson ... 94 Coe, Rev. Alvan, visits Fort Snel- Bougainville, mentions Indian tribes seen by Verendrye .. 60 Boutwell. Rev. W. T., Ojibway ling in 1829. 106 Convention to form a State Con- stitution missionary. 106, 113 Removes to Stillwater. 111 Notice of Stillwater. 114 128 Establishes a Fort on Lake Erie ... 15 Returns to Lake Erie with his cousin Tonty. 16 Brother of, from Lake Nepi- 7 Cooper, David, Territorial Judge 118 Copper mines of Lake Superior, Early notice of. gon 16 In command at Fort Fronte- nao 16 Braddock's defeat 61 Notice of Isle Royal 7 Death of 17
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26 Brisbin, J. B. 12
Brisbois, Lieutenant in British service .. 81 Verendrye ....
Brissette, Edward, notice of. 114 .. Mentions Rocky Mountain Indians .. 60
Brown. Joseph R .. drummer boy at Fort Snelling .. 95
Dakotahs or Dabkotahs, see Sioux D'Avagour. Governor of Canada. opinion of the region West of Lake Superior. 1
Allouez. Jesuit missionary visits La Pointe ... 4
Member of Wisconsin Leg- islature ... 113 Return to Canada. 54 58
Makes a town site near
De la Tour, Jesuits missionary ... De la Tourette, Greysolon, broth- er of Du Luth. 16
13
Aquipaguetin, Sioux chief men- tioned by Hennepin. .21, 27
Assineboines. .2, 9, 23, 43, 46. Augelle, Anthony, alias Picard
65
du Guy. associate of Hennepin 10. 18. 23, 24, 28 Ayer, Frederick, missionary to Ojibways .. 107 Baker, B. F., Indian trader 112 Bailly. Alexis, drives cattle to Pembina .. 93 Member of Legislature 99
BI Carver's Cave mentioned ... . 66, 78 Carver. Capt. Jonathan, early life of In battle of Lake George. Arrival at Mackinaw. 61 D'Evaque, in charge of Fort L'Huillier .. 48 Devotion, M., sutler at Fort Snelling ...
D'Iberville, Gov., criticises Hen- 28
91
Beanharnois, Governor, favors Verendrye. 68
Beaujeau, urged by Langlade of Wisconsin, defeats Braddock .. 61
Bellin alludes to Fort Rouge on Red river. 87 Fort on St. Croix river 112
Describes cave at St. Panl. Describes Falls of St. An- thony ... 66 68
Discovers northern sources of the Mississippi .. 94 Bishop, Harriet E., establishes school at St. Paul .. 114 Blue Earth River explored .... 45, 47
land .. Grandsons of, visit Minne- Rota .... 82
70
D'Evaque visits .. 48 Boal, J. M., early settler at St. Paul .... 116, 118 Bottineau, J. B., exposed in a snow storm. 102 tions 45 Chatfield, A. G., Territorial Judge .. 125 Chouart, Medard, sce Groselliers Christinaux mentioned. 48.
Relative of Le Sueur. 38
Bass, J. W., early settler at St. Paul . 116
Denis, Canadian voyageur, joins Le Sueur. 42 Denonville. Governor, attacks Seneccas .. 15
Meets the Sioux at the ex- tremity of Lake Superior .. Ames, M. E., early lawyer 122 Stillwater .. 119 Secretary of Council 1849 .. 119 Bruce, trader at Green Bay. 63
elist in Minnesota .. 122 Copper mines spoken of by Talon. A. D .. 1689. 7 Coquard, Father, accompanies 60
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At Falls of St. Anthony .... 18, 28
Meets Hennepin. 25 Marriages at .. .... Tribute to. 27 .. 102, 108, 120 Steamer Palmyra at, in July, 1838, with notice of ratifica-
His tour from Lake Superior to Mississippi. 112 tion of Indian treaties ..... 112 Indian council held at, by Governor Ramsey 121
Meets Accault and Hennepin 112 Du Pay, a voyageur. 10
Durantaye, commander at Mack- inaw
At Ticonderoga.
39 62
At Niagara. 15 St. Joseph, on Lake Erie, es- tablished by Du Luth 16
Ely, E. F., missionary teacher ... 110 Enjalran, Jesuit missionary at St. Pierre, on Rainy Lake .... 58
Sault St. Maire .. 11, 18 Faffart, interpreter for Du Luth 10
Visits the Sioux. 11
Falls of Saint Anthony, first white man at. 25
First mill at .. .93, 91 Friend of Duluth. t.
11
Described by La Salle 18 Encourages Le Sueur. 39
Described by Hennepin, 24. 25, 28 Frazer, trader ...
78
Fuller, Jerome, Territorial Chief Justice .. 123
Furber, J. W. 127
Isle, Pelee, of the Mississippi, below St. Croix River. 37 Isle Royal, copper in 1667, noticed 7
Itasca, origin of word .. 10 Jackson, Henry, early settler in St. Paul .. 114, 115 Jemeraye, Sieur de la, with the - Sioux .. 56
Explores to Rainy Lake .. 58. Death of .. 58
59
Jesuit, Father Allouez. Chardon.
De Gonor ..
De la Chasse
Guignas .51, 54, 55, 56 5
Marquette.
Menard.
2.
8
Messayer 58
Jesuit missions unsuccessful. 108
Johnson. Parsons K. 119
Snelling. 100
Grant trader at Sandy Lake, vis-
Gravier, Father James, criticises Hennepin 28
Greeley, Elam 108
10
Grignod. Cabtain in British ser- vice.
81
Visits Mille Lacs region .. 2
Meets the Assineboines 2
Visits Hudson's Bay 4
Name given to what is now Pigeon river ..
Visits New England
6
Encouraged by Prince Ru- pert 5 Lake Harriet mission described .. 109
Death of. 6
Guignas, Father, missionary at Fort Beauharnois 51
29
Advance in building 93
Events of A. D. 1822, A. D. 1828 ..
First steamboat at
94 91
Lambert, David, early settler in St. Paul.
118
Hayner, H. Z., Chief Justice of Territory. 121 Events of A. D. 1824 95
Hempstead accompanies
Major
Long. A. D. 1817 .. 82
Hennepin, Louis, Franciscan mis- Bionary, early life of 19 Son of Pierre Boucher 51
Depreciates Jesuits lo Arrives at Lake Pepin 52 La l'orte, see Lovigny ..
97 At Falls of St. Anthony 16, 22, 24, 25
Steamboat arrivals to close of 1823.
97 General Gaines censures Col- onel of .. 97
Events of A. D. 1827 98 Flat Mouth, Ojibway chief. visits, in 1827. 98 Col. Suelling delivers mur- derers for execution. 99
Construction of, criticised by General Gaines. 100 Rev. Alva Coe in 1829 preach-
es at
108
Hobart, Rev. C.
119
water.
113
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J. N. Nicollet arrives at ...... 102
Holcomb. Capt. William. 110
Hole in-the-Day, the father at- Sioux near St. Paul. tacks the Sioux. 108 Hole-in-the-Day. Junior attacks 121 On first steam boat above falls of St. Anthony. 121 Howe, early settler at Marine. 118
Huggins, Alexander, mission
Hurums drive n to Minnesota. 2
At war with the Sioux
Indiana Territory organized. 73 Indians of Mississippi Valley, earliest communication about. 48 Upper Missouri, seen by Ver- endrye 80
Minnesota. 104
2 Ioways, visited by Hurons. Visit Perrot at Lake Pepin 29 Iroquois, Virgin, her intercession sought by Du Luth .. 17
Described by Lt.Z.M.Pike, 75. 76 Described by Major Long ... 85 First newspaper at ... 123 Bridge, first across , Missis- sippi .. 128
Fisher, trader at Green Bay. ... Fitch, pioneer in St. Croix Val- 69 ley 112
Flat Mouth, Ojibway Chief, vis- its Fort Snelling, A. D. 1827 .... 97
Forsyth. Major Thomas, accom- panies first troops to Fort Snel- fing 91 91
Pays Indians for reservation ..
Fort Beauharnois established A. D. 1727, at Lake Pepin 51.
52 57
Commanded by St. Pierre, 56, Fort Crawford 100 Judge ... 118
La Reine, on River Assine- boine . 33. Le Sueur, below Hastings 37 87
L'Huillier on Blue Earth river 48 47 ited by Pike 77
Left in charge of D'Evaque Mckay .. 81 Perrot, at Lake Pepin. 20
Shelby, at Prairie du Chien 80,
81
Fort Snelling site secured by Lt. Pike.
75 Troops for, at Prairie du Chien 900
Birth of Charlotte Ouiscon- sin Clark. 90
Col. Leavenworth arrives at Mendota 91
91 First officers at cantonment .. Major Taliaferro Indian agent at
91 92
Cass and Schoolcraft visits .. Col. Snelling succeeds Leav- en worth
Lake Pepin, called Lake of Tears Described in A. D. 1700. 41
Fort Perrot at .. Fort Beauharnois at. 58
Guignas, Father, captured by In- dians .. Returns to Lake Pepin 56 La Monde, a voyager .. 10 54 Lake Pokeguma Mission 100 Landsing, trader, killed.
Hall. Rev. Sherman, Ojibway missionary 107 Moves to Sauk Rapids. 111 Sunday School at .. 16
Lambert, Henry A., early settler in St. Paul .. 119 Langlade, of Green Bay, urges attack of Braddock. 61
La Perriere, Sieur de, proceeds to Sioux country. 31
La Potherie describes Fort Per- 29
rot at Lake Pepin.
25 falo robes. 10
28 Criticises Du Luth. 10.
18 First to describe Upper Mis-
Describes falls of St. Anthony 19 La Taupine, see Moreau.
Croix Valley. 113
Leach, Calvin, & founder of Still-
4 59 51 51
Goodhue, James M., first Minne- sota editor. Death of 12
117
Goodrich, Aaron, Territorial
Gorman, Willis A. Governor 125 Gorrell, Lieut. at Green Bay. 62
Graham, Duncan, arrives at Fort
Judd, early settler at Marine .. 113 Kaposia, Chief, requests a mis- sionary. Kennerman, Pike's sergeant. 7g 114 Kickapoos, at Fort Perrot. க
Capture French from Lake Pepin. 54
Griffing. La Salle's ship. Voyage to Green Bay 19 King, grandson of Carver. 82 La Hontan, his early life. 85
Groselliers, Sieur, early life. 78.
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Ascent of the Fox River 35 Criticised Carlevoix. 36
Noticed by Nicollet. 38
91 Laidlow travels from Selkirk set- tlement to Prairie du Chien .... At Fort Snelling 38
5
Lac qui Parle Mission .. 109
Lake Calhoun, Indian farm es- tablished. 106
Events of A. D. 1821
92 93
Beltrami, the Italian, at .. 93, Major H. S. Long arrives at .. Government mill near.
General Scott suggests name for fort .. 95
Euents of A. D. 1825 and 1826, 98 Mail arrival at .. 96
Great snow storm March. 1826, 96
High water at, April 21. 1826, Slaves belonging to officers at ..
97 Denounced by La Salle At Lake Pepin. 22 19 Chaplain of La Salle 20 Larpenteur, A., early settler in 116 Met by Du Luth .. 25 La Salle licensed to trade in Buf- St. Paul ..
Careor on return to Europe .. His later days ..
Opinion of Jesuit Missions .. 108 Henniss, C. J., Editor. 122 sissippi ... 18
Herschell, Sir John, translates Schiller's song, Son of Sioux Chief. 68 Laurence. Phineas, pioneer at St.
Historical Society, first public meeting 119
Fort St. Anthony, now Snelling .. 95
St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods 58 farmer 107
Interview with Perrot ... 31
Mentioned. 33, 37, 38, 48, 46, 54, 55
Franklin, Sir John, relics of, pasa through St. Paul. 128 Frontenac, Governor of Canada. 10
Galtier, Rev. L., builds first chapel in St. Paul .. 114 Gavin, Rev. Daniel missionary .. 111
Gibson, General, letters relative to St. Anthony mill. 94
Gillan, Capt. Zachary, of Bos- ton, accompanied by Grosel- lies and Radisson, sails for
Hudson's Bay in ship None- such 5
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Lead mines on Mississippi. 33 Leavenworth, Colonel, estab-
lishes Fort Snelling .. 90
Legardeur, Augustine, associate of Perrot ... 118, 119
127 Legislature, Territorial .... 119 to First State Legislature .. 128 Leslie, Lt., command at Macki- naw .. 62
L'Huillier, Fort why named 43 Le Sueur, associated with Per- rot, builds & Fort below Has- tings 32
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