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Some legacies of the Ordinance of 1787
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 13, 1899." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Address at Fort Snelling in the celebration of the centennial annivers...
"This celebration was on September 23, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A tour from the city of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan territor...
In a series of letters, William Darby (1775-1854), who describes himself as a member of the New-York Historical Society, chronicles his journey up the Hudson, across New York to Ogdensburg and Sackett's Harbor ... More
Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the U...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to loc... More
Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Wi...
William Hypolitus Keating (1799-1840), a professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), compiled this two-volume account of a scientific expedition in 1823 under the auspic... More
Schoolcraft's exploring tour of 1832
Also published in Annals of the Society, 1852, under title: Exploring tour. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lak...
This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditiona... More
Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a gener...
This is a detailed compendium of information about Michigan in 1839. Part One presents a "general view of the state," describing Michigan's geology, soil, climate and topography as well as its improvements, pro... More
Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More
A true description of the Lake Superior country, its rivers, coasts, b...
This descriptive discussion of the Lake Superior country emphasizes geographical features and is directed primarily towards those interested in locating and exploiting the region's mineral deposits of copper an... More
A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...
Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... More
A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an account of the lead and co...
This detailed travelogue, the concluding part of a two-volume work written primarily for a British readership, discusses the United States' geological resources and offers critical observations about the manner... More
Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West. With incidents of ...
Beginning with a historical and geographical overview, this traveler's account of the newly formed Minnesota Territory provides practical information for readers interested in relocating to the region. Seymour ... More
Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes...
This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes reg... More
A new home--who'll follow? or, Glimpses of western life
Caroline Matilda (Stansbury) Kirkland (1801-1864) was a middle-class white woman with a literary bent who moved with her husband and children to the woods of Michigan in the mid-1830s to settle a newly-planned ... More
Hand book of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This pocket-sized book provides statistical and geographical information about Wisconsin in the 1850s, including topographical descriptions, a listing of natural resources, educational data, a discussion of ava... More
Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the No...
Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829-1922), future Civil War general, diplomat, and state official, wrote these twenty-six letters on a trip to the Minnesota and Dakota [Dacotah] territory during the fall of 1856... More
The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 9. 1912." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Floral home; or, First years of Minnesota: early sketches, later settl...
Harriet E. Bishop (1817-1883) emigrated to Minnesota from New England in 1847. She was recruited by Catherine Beecher's Board of National Popular Education to establish a school in St. Paul, Minnesota and to se... More
A Red River townsite speculation in 1857
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 13, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Causes and results of the Inkpaduta massacre
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, October 9, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Boyhood remembrances of life among the Dakotas and the massacre of 186...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 14, 1910." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Sioux outbreak in the year 1862 : with notes of missionary work am...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, October 9, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863-4 : embracing...
This compendium begins with a brief general history and description of Michigan's natural resources, and then gives the same information for each county and the Upper Peninsula. There is also a copy of the stat... More
Minnesota, its advantages to settlers, 1869. Being a brief synopsis of...
This book was published by the State of Minnesota and was intended to attract settlers. Among the attractions it promotes are the State's agricultural and manufacturing resources and production, climate and its... More
Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and...
This pamphlet brings together a series of letters originally published in theChicago Price Current under the pseudonym Massabesic. They chronicle the writer's travels through Michigan's towns and cities by the ... More
The Minnesota guide. A hand book of information for the travelers, ple...
This is the 1869 version of an annual publication designed promote the state of Minnesota and to provide information about it to prospective settlers. The Minnesota Guide describes the history and geography of ... More
Minnesota, its character and climate. Likewise sketches of other resor...
This panegyric extols the beauty, abundant natural resources, and health- restoring environment of Minnesota, describing the state's regions and its many tourist attractions. It is directed towards those suffer... More
Louis Hennepin, the Franciscan : first explorer of the upper Mississip...
By E.D. Neill. Reprinted from Annals of the Society, 1856. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Memoir of Jean N. Nicollet - Minnesota Historical Society
Also published in Annals of the Society, 1853, under title: Sketch of the life of Nicollet. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Our field of historical research : address of Gov. Alex. Ramsey, presi...
Also published in Annals of the Society, 1851, under title: Address of Gov. A. Ramsey. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Who discovered Itasca Lake? : letter of Wm. Morrison, an early Indian ...
Introduced by a letter from the author's brother, Allan Morrison. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Organization of Minnesota Territory
"From the 'Annals' of 1851." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Description of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"First printed in the Washington Union. This was the first authentic information concerning Minnesota, published outside of the Territory." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Battle of Lake Pokeguma : as narrated ry sic an eye witness
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Department of Hudson's Bay - Minnesota Historical Society
Translated from the French by Mrs. Letitia May. Also published in J.W. Bond's Minnesota and its resources, New York, 1853, under title: Prince Rupert's land--the Hudson Bay and Northwest Company. Also available... More
The Fox and Ojibwa War - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Le Sueur's explorations : Le Sieur, the explorer of the Minnesota Rive...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early courts of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A sketch of Joseph Renville : a "Bois Brule," and early trader of Minn...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
St. Louis River - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
D'Iberville : an abstract of his Memorial on the country of the Missis...
"From the 'Materials for Minnesota History' published by the Society, 1856." (Annals of the Society for 1856). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A memoir on the history and physical geography of Minnesota
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Capt. Jonathan Carver, and his explorations
By E.D. Neill. "From the 'Materials for Minnesota history'--1856." (Annals of the Society for 1856). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Letter from Prof. W.W. Mather, the geologist : from the "Annals" of 18...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Dakota land and Dakota life - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The French voyageurs to Minnesota during the seventeenth century
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Speech of Hon. H.H. Sibley, of Minn., before the Committee on Election...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Religious movements in Minnesota
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early schools of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Letter of Mesnard : written on the eve of embarkation for Lake Superio...
By Rev. E.D. Neill. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Dakota language - Minnesota Historical Society
"The address was read at the Annual Meeting by Mr. McLeod." Also published in Annals of the Society, 1851, under title: Address of S.R. Riggs. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early days at Fort Snelling - Minnesota Historical Society
By E.D. Neill. Includes extracts from Mrs. Elizabeth Ellett's Pioneer women of the West. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Who were the first men? - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Reminiscences, historical and personal
Reprinted from Annals of the Society, 1856. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Sieur du Luth : the explorer between Mille Lacs and Lake Superior
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Pike's explorations in Minnesota, 1805-6
Extracts from Pike's An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi ... Philadelphia, 1810. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Ancient mounds and monuments - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest
This book recounts the experiences of a young, genteel wife adjusting to the military life and frontier conditions of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her perilous journeys b... More
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic an...
This first-person narrative of a pioneer boyhood is intended as a tribute to the author's parents, who emigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, from Putnam County, New York in 1834. William Nowlin describes his father'... More
Minnesota, the empire state of the new North-West, the commercial, man...
This 1878 pamphlet addresses itself to laboring and landless men, as well as to those of moderate means, who are seeking to escape the "tyrannies and thankless toil of the old world" and the overcrowded conditi... More
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated ...
Sojourner Truth (1795-1883) was originally a Dutch-speaking slave in Hurley, New York (Ulster County) who became one of the nineteenth century's most eloquent voices for the causes of anti-slavery and women's r... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Half a century during American Civil War
At the beginning of her autobiography, Jane Swisshelm announces that she intends to show the relationship of faith to the antislavery struggle, to record incidents characteristic of slavery, to provide an insid... More
Five years in Minnesota. Sketches of life in a western state
Maurice Farrar was an Englishman authorized by Minnesota in 1880 to act as an Agent for the promotion of Immigration through lecturing in Great Britain. He spent five years in Minnesota during the late 1870s an... More
A woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland
Canadian-born Laura Haviland (1808-1898) was an evangelically-minded Quaker and later (for a time) a Wesleyan Methodist, active in education and social justice issues throughout her life. A Woman's Life Work is... More
Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form.
Autobiography of Erastus O. Haven, D.D., LL.D., one of the bishops of ...
Erastus O. Haven (1820-1881) was a minister and leader of the Methodist Episcopal Church during a vigorous period of its growth and development. The child of a Methodist minister and farmer, he was born in Bost... More
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...
This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More
Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistica...
This is a small compendium of statistics, charts, timetables, and political information published by the Michigan Central Railroad. It includes lists of members of state boards, the state legislature, and offic... More
History of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
History of the Ojibways : based upon traditions and oral statements
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard ... More
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: a grammar of t...
Blackbird (Mack-e-te-be-nessy) was an Ottawa chief's son who served as an official interpreter for the U.S. government and later as a postmaster while remaining active in Native American affairs as a teacher, a... More
Bibliography of Jean Nicolet, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Local government in Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 191...
"Drawn mainly from the Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science", 8th series, III. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by th... More
Sketch of Morgan L. Martin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of: Reminiscences of Morgan L. Martin, 1827-1887. Madison, 1888.
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1778-1783
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 11 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1778-1783, while v. 12 has papers dealin... More
Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix contai...
William Henry Carman Folsom (1817-1900), Minnesota legislator, businessman, and historian, emigrated from Maine to the Upper Midwest when he was nineteen years old. There he lived the rest of his life, achievin... More
A rare Wisconsin book, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Describes Cole's search for a reprint of a selection of laws of Michigan Territory in force in Wisconsin Territory, as directed by a 1938 resolution of the Wisconsin legislature. Also available in digital form ... More
Letter-book of Thomas Forsyth, 1814-1818
Consists chiefly of correspondence between Forsyth and Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois Territory, concerning their dealings with the Indian tribes as allies. Also available in digital form on the Library o... More
Narrative of Morgan L. Martin : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of: Reminiscences of Morgan L. Martin, 1827-1887. Madison, 1888.
Thompson Maxwell's narrative, 1760-1763
Narrative of an expedition to take possession of Detroit, Mackinaw, and other western posts surrendered to the British by the capitulation of Montreal. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Capture of Fort M'Kay, Prairie du Chien, in 1814
"Adapted ... from the Report on Canadian archives for 1887." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Prairie du Chien, in 1811 : letter from Nicholas Boilvin, Indian agent...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Dickson and Grignon papers, 1812-1815
"Supplement the Lawe and Grignon papers published in vol. X, Wisconsin historical collections, pp. 94-121." Edited by Reuben Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The boundaries of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
American Fur Company invoices, 1821-22
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
George P. Delaplaine's statement
General Delaplaine's recollections of Solomon Juneau and Andres Vieau documented in interview with Reuben Thwaites held November 2, 1887. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
"Three score years and ten": life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minn...
Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve (1819-1907) was the daughter of a U.S. Army officer, one of the first group of soldiers assigned to establish a fort in what was then known to whites as the Northwest. This was Fo... More
Prairie du Chien in 1827 : letters of Joseph M. Street to Gov. Ninian ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."
This pamphlet consists of photographs of views and landmarks in various locales along the southern shore of Lake Superior: Marquette, St. Ignace, Ishpeming, Champion, Collinsville, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mackina... More
Documents relating to the Catholic Church in Green Bay, and the missio...
Compiled by Reuben G. Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Missions on Chequamegon Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Lyman Copeland Draper, a memoir
"Address delivered before the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at its annual meeting, December 10, 1891." Includes bibliography, p. 20-22. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web sit... More
How Wisconsin came by its large German element
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chi...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.