Author : Frank C. Coolbaugh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267403868
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota, 1851 to 1861 (Classic Reprint) by : Frank C. Coolbaugh
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota, 1851 to 1861 (Classic Reprint) written by Frank C. Coolbaugh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Early Days of Minnesota, 1851 to 1861 It may be well to recall that the portion of our state west of the St. Croix river and east of the Mississippi, in which the greater part of the city of St. Paul is located, was originally in the Northwest Territory ceded by Virginia to the United States. Out of that generous cession were created Ohio, Mich igan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, and so much of Minne sota as lies between the St. Croix and the Mississippi; but the larger part of this state west of the Mississippi, including Fort Snelling, comes of the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte for fifteen million dollars in 1803. Thus the area of Minnesota's tenure passed through not less than six or eight jurisdictions before it became either a territorial or state unit. Referring to this peculiar fact, General Sibley was wont to remark jocosely, I was successively a citizen of Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, both state and territory, with out changing my residence at Mendota. The second of the two men living on the military reserva tion in 1851 was Colonel John H. Stevens, a veteran of the Mexican war, the first settler in Minneapolis proper, in 1849, ever a prominent and influential citizen. I well recall his cot tage, a story and a half in height, perched on the very edge of the river bank, and hard-by the landing place of the ferryboat, of which Captain John Tapper was for a long time the able bodied and trusty ferryman. The ferryboat itself was of the primitive character familiar enough to all pioneers, whose running stock consisted of a rope cable stretched from shore to shore, the river's current supply ing the force to drive it to and fro according as the movable keel or side board was raised or lowered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
