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Excerpt from Guide to the Personal Papers in the Manuscript Collections of the Minnesota Historical SocietyMany of the collections range far beyond Minnesota in their scope of interest and information, throw light upon national affairs, touch on other sections Of the United States, and reveal conditions in other lands. Although most of the papers deal with the past hundred years, both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are represented, t...

Excerpt from Guide to the Personal Papers in the Manuscript Collections of the Minnesota Historical SocietyMany of the collections range far beyond Minnesota in their scope of interest and information, throw light upon national affairs, touch on other sections Of the United States, and reveal conditions in other lands. Although most of the papers deal with the past hundred years, both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are represented, t...

Excerpt from Documents Relating to Northwest Missions: 1815-1827This volume inaugurates the series of documentary volumes named in memory of a learned and able American editor, professor, and scholar, Clarence Walworth Alvord. He was especially interested in the documentary history of the Mississippi Valley, and the series aims to deal with that area, interpreted broadly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

Excerpt from Documents Relating to Northwest Missions: 1815-1827This volume inaugurates the series of documentary volumes named in memory of a learned and able American editor, professor, and scholar, Clarence Walworth Alvord. He was especially interested in the documentary history of the Mississippi Valley, and the series aims to deal with that area, interpreted broadly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rar...

Reprint of the long out-of-print 1943 book, the definitive work on Radisson and Des Groseilliers, with an additional, end-sheet map.

With simplicity and charm, Grace Lee Nute tells the story of the Minnesota-Ontario border country west of the Boundary Waters--the region of the west-flowing Rainy River and the two lakes that it joins, Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods. In this companion volume to The Voyageur's Highway Nute draws on her broad and thorough knowledge of historical sources to describe the earliest people who passed through the region, the mound builders who foll...

Nute's bestselling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoe men, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.

A popular guide to the state's canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of the famous explorers, great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way. Photographs and maps support the fascinating, authoritative text.