Fifty Years In The Northwest: With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

GOING WEST. 1 Lakes Huron and Michigan 3 Chicago and Milwaukee ...

STILLWATER AND ST. CROIX COUNTY. From Prairie du Chien to Stillwater 32 Stillwater in 1845 33 St. ...

BIOGRAPHIES. Joseph Renshaw Brown 52 Paul Carli 53 Dr. Christopher Carli ...

POLK COUNTY Description and History 82 Franklin Steele, the First Pioneer 82 His Account of the Se...

POLK COUNTY--CONTINUED. BIOGRAPHIES. Gov. William Holcombe 103 William S. Hungerford 104 ...

ST. CROIX COUNTY. Organization, 1840 144 Division, 1848 144 County Seat Located...

PIERCE COUNTY. Descriptive 196 History, First Events 197 County Seat Changed ...

BURNETT, WASHBURN, SAWYER AND BARRON COUNTIES. BURNETT COUNTY. Location and Description 230 Organization ...

ASHLAND, BAYFIELD AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES. ASHLAND COUNTY. History, Location, Description 248 Isles of the Apostles ...

PINE COUNTY. History 260 Description 260 First Events ...

KANABEC, ISANTI, AND MILLE LACS COUNTIES. KANABEC COUNTY. History, Boundaries, etc. 286 Description ...

CHISAGO COUNTY. Location, Surface, Scenery 298 Chisago Lake 298 Dalles of the St. Cro...

BIOGRAPHICAL. Jesse Taylor 336 Joshua L. Taylor 336 Nathan C. D. Taylor ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY. Organization in 1849 355 First Board of Officers 355 Afton ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY--CONTINUED. CITY OF STILLWATER. Stillwater in 1850 396 The Freshet of 1850 ...

STEARNS, ANOKA AND SHERBURNE COUNTIES. STEARNS COUNTY. Organization and History of 432 St. Cloud ...

BENTON, MORRISON AND CROW WING COUNTIES. BENTON COUNTY. Description 460 First Settlers, Organization ...

AITKIN, CARLTON, ST. LOUIS, LAKE AND COOK COUNTIES. AITKIN COUNTY. Description 482 Organization, Officers ...

HENNEPIN COUNTY. Organization and History, Towns 497 Fort Snelling 497 Treaty of 1837 ...

RAMSEY COUNTY. Organization, First Officers 532 St. Paul in 1840, Known as Pig's Eye 532 First Settlers ...

BIOGRAPHICAL. Henry Hastings Sibley 553 Alexander Ramsey 556 William H. Forbes ...

DAKOTA, GOODHUE, WABASHA AND WINONA COUNTIES. DAKOTA COUNTY. Description 591 Hastings ...

MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES. Pierre Bottineau 606 Andrew G. Chatfield 606 Hazen Mooe...

Counties. Page 140, read Cyrus G. Bradley, instead of Cyrus Q. Page 166, read Philip B. Jewell, instead of Philip P. Page 422, read Clifford A. Bennett, instead of Clifton. Pag...

Going West.--In June, 1836, I again visited the Penobscot in quest of employment, in which I was unsuccessful. At Stillwater, above Bangor, I met my kind friend Simeon Goodrich, al...

STILLWATER AND ST. CROIX COUNTY. In September, 1844, reluctantly I bade adieu to Prairie du Chien with its picturesque bluffs and historic associations, and embarked on the steame...

BIOGRAPHIES. JOSEPH RENSHAW BROWN, one of the best known of the pioneers, came to Dakotah, Schulenberg's addition, in 1839. For items in his history I am personally indebted to hi...

POLK COUNTY--DESCRIPTION AND HISTORY. Polk county contains 700,000 acres of land, well diversified with timber and prairie, uplands and valleys, rivers and lakes, and fertile enou...

BIOGRAPHIES. The biographical histories of the early settlers of Polk county considerably antedate the organization of the towns to which they would be referred as at present belo...

China. During his absence there was a complete neglect of his American inland projects and the enterprise at St. Croix suffered greatly; the new company accomplished but little tha...

ST. CROIX COUNTY. Jan. 9, 1840, the Wisconsin legislature created a new county out of Crawford county, including territory west of the Chippewa river, extending northward to the B...

PIERCE COUNTY. This county, named in honor of President Pierce, was separated from St. Croix county in 1853, and organized by the same act that created Polk county, and gave to St...

BURNETT, WASHBURN, SAWYER AND BARRON COUNTIES. BURNETT COUNTY. Burnett county was named in honor of a genial, kind hearted and eccentric lawyer, Thomas Pendleton Burnett, of Prai...

ASHLAND, BAYFIELD AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES. ASHLAND COUNTY. Ashland was originally a part of Crawford county, afterward of St. Croix and La Pointe, and was set off from the latter Ma...

PINE COUNTY. Prior to the organization of Minnesota Territory, in 1849, Pine county was included within the limits of St. Croix county, Wisconsin. Until the organization of Chisag...

KANABEC COUNTY. Kanabec county, prior to 1849, was included in St. Croix county, Wisconsin; thence until 1852 it was a part of Ramsey county, Minnesota; until 1854 a part of Chisa...

CHISAGO COUNTY. LOCATION--SURFACE--SCENERY. Chisago county, located on the west bank of the St. Croix river, between the counties of Pine on the north and Washington on the south...

part has oak openings and prairie, with soil somewhat varied, in some places more or less sandy. It is well watered and drained. Thornton Bishop, the first settler, came in 1846, a...

store, elevator and a fine residence, which was burned in 1881. Mr. Pratt represented his district in the sixteenth legislature. He was married to Helen A. Bossout, at St. Paul, in...

BIOGRAPHICAL. JESSE TAYLOR, the first permanent settler of Taylor's Falls, came to the Falls in 1838, as narrated in the general history of the village. Nothing is known of his li...

WASHINGTON COUNTY. The early history of Washington county is to be found in the history of St. Croix county, Wisconsin, of which it was a part until the organization of Minnesota ...

having come in 1837 with John Boyce to the valley of the St. Croix in a mackinaw boat, towed from St. Louis to the mouth of Lake St. Croix by a steamer, from which point they poled...

WASHINGTON COUNTY--CONTINUED. CITY OF STILLWATER. The organization of the territory of Minnesota in 1849 naturally gave a new impetus to settlement, and marked an era in the prog...

STEARNS, ANOKA AND SHERBURNE COUNTIES. STEARNS COUNTY. Stearns county derived its name from Hon. Charles T. Stearns, a prominent citizen of St. Cloud, a representative of the pre...

BENTON COUNTY. At the organization of Minnesota Territory three counties were created, of which Benton was one. Its eastern boundary followed the course of Rum river from its mout...

AITKIN COUNTY. This county consists of an oblong section, six towns in width, lying between Mille Lacs and Kanabec counties on the south, and Itasca on the north. It is a heavily ...

HENNEPIN COUNTY. Hennepin county was organized March 6, 1852. Prior to the organization of Minnesota Territory it was in Clayton county, Iowa. At the organization of the Territory...

RAMSEY COUNTY. Ramsey county, named in honor of Gov. Ramsey, includes an area of about four whole towns lying between Anoka county on the north, Washington on the east and the Mis...

BIOGRAPHICAL. HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY.--The father of Gen. Sibley, Judge Solomon Sibley, of Massachusetts, was a well known pioneer of the Northwest. He settled in Ohio in 1795, but...

association in Connecticut, and started and conducted for a year the first daily penny paper in the State. He was one of the originators of the reform school and an efficient promo...

DAKOTA COUNTY. This county, a rich farming district, lies on the west bank of the Mississippi between Ramsey and Goodhue counties. It was originally well diversified with timber a...

MISCELLANEOUS BIOGRAPHIES. PIERRE BOTTINEAU was born in the Red River settlement, now Dakota, in 1817. His early life was passed amongst the Ojibways in the employ of various fur ...