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HISTORY.
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Opening Statement 2
Legendary and Aboriginal Era 3
Fort Snelling 14
The Selkirk Settlement 20
George Catlin 25
Featherstonehaugh 25
Schoolcraft and the Source of the Mississippi 26
Elevations in Minnesota 28
Nicollet 28
Missions 30
The Indians 36
Territorial Period 43
Education 49
The First Territorial Government 52
Courts 54
First Territorial Legislature 58
Immigration 62
The Panic of 1857 68
Land Titles 69
The First Newspaper 70
Banks 73
The Fur Trade 75
Pemmican 80
Transportation and Express 81
Lumber 83
Religion 85
Railroads 91
The First Railroad Actually Built 101
The Spirit Lake Massacre 102
The Constitutional Convention 109
Attempt to Remove the Capital 115
Census 117
Grasshoppers 117
Militia 120
The Wright Country War 122
The Civil War 123
The Third Regiment 128
The Indian War of 1862 and Following Years 135
The Attack on Fort Ridgely 148
Battle of New Ulm 150
Battle of Birch Coulie 159
Occurrences in Meeker County and Vicinity 161
Protection of the Southern Frontier 162
Colonel Sibley Move upon the Enemy 166
The Battle of Wood Lake 169
Fort Abercrombie 171
Camp Release 174
Trial of the Indians 175
Execution of the Thirty-Eight Condemned Indians 180
The Campaign of 1863 182
Battle of Big Mound 184
Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake 185
Battle of Stony Lake 186
Campaign of 1864 187
A Long Period of Peace and Prosperity 193
Introduction of the New Process of Milling Wheat 193
The Discovery of Iron 196
Commerce Through the St. Mary's Falls Canal 199
Agriculture 200
Dairying 201
The University of Minnesota and its School of Agriculture 203
The Minnesota State Agricultural Society 205
The Minnesota Soldiers Home 207
Other State Institutions 208
Minnesota Institutes for Defectives 209
State School for Dependent and Neglected Children 210
The Minnesota State Training School 211
Minnesota State Reformatory 212
The Minnesota State Prison 213
The Minnesota Historical Society 213
State Institutions Miscellaneous in their Cahracter 215
State Finances 217
The Monetary and Business Flurry of 1873 and Panic of 1893 218
Minor Happenings 221
The War with Spain 225
The Indian Battle of Leech Lake 229
Population 234
The State Flag 236
The Official Flower of the State and the Method of its Selection 237
Origin of the Name Gopher State 242
State Parks 245
Politics 248
Bibliography 253
