Abstract

Tells the stories behind more than 20,000 names of towns and cities, townships and counties, lakes and rivers, of the North Star state of Minnesota.

Scope and Contents Illustrations: Survivors who were at Traverse des Sioux at the time of the treaty in 1851: Mrs. Richard Chute, General William G. Le Duc, Mrs. Gideon Pond; with Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris -- Group of contributors taken at a party at the home of Mrs. James T. Morris, May 26, 1915 -- Mrs. Margaret King Hern (St. Paul); Medal (Defender of Fort Ridgely) presented to Margaret King Hern by the State [of Minnesota] in 1896; Late type of Red River Cart, taken in the [Eighteen] Fifties. Earlier...