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ISBN:
Category : Itasca State Park (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Itasca Guide Book
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Itasca State Park (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reading Group Choices
Author: Reading Group ChoicesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780975974476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Everyone's Country Estate
Author: Roy Willard MeyerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873512664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.
Destined to Choose
Author: Sheyna GalyanPublisher: Yaldah Publishing
ISBN: 9781592870189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake
Author: Henry Rowe SchoolcraftPublisher: New-York : Harper & Bros.
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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 expeditionary party of thirty, including Ozawindib (an Ojibway guide and interpreter), an army officer, a surgeon, a geologist, and interpreter, and a missionary. They set out with instructions from Secretary of War Lewis Cass to effect a permanent peace among the region's Native Americans, persuade them to be vaccinated against smallpox, acquire demographic and scientific information, and establish definitively the origin of the Mississippi. Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi contains anecdotes and observations about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Chippewa [Ojibway] as well as the Sioux [Dakota], the Fox [Mesquakie], the Sauk, the Menominee, the Mandans, and various other Native American groups. The narrative proceeds chronologically along the route the expedition followed, with detailed descriptions of geographical features. This volume also includes a short account of a trip along the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) River, and has an appendix containing statistical and linguistic data, a list of shells collected by Schoolcraft in the West and Northwestern territories, official reports, a speech by six Chippewa chiefs about the war delivered at Michilimackinac in July 1833, and a discussion of the Upper Mississippi's lead mining country.
Healing
Author: Joi LewisThe Mississippi River in Maps & Views
Author: Robert A. HollandPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In The Mississippi River in Maps & Views more than eighty glorious full-color maps dating from as early as 1544 celebrate "Ol’ Man River," this profound artery at the heart of America, and the extraordinary cities that grew up on its shores, including New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis, and Minneapolis–St. Paul. Beautifully drawn maps document Fernando de Soto’s explorations and "discovery" of the river, as well as those of the Marquett and Joliet Expeditions. Other maps present key moments along the Mississippi in times of war (The French and Indian War, The War of 1812, The Civil War). More recent though equally artful maps and charts seek a scientific understanding of the river toward an end of controlling it, and gorgeous bird’s-eye views ultimately extol the river’s beauty and its environs above all else. A consideration of the Mississippi and its history as a major highway toward America’s discovery of itself, through a comprehensive selection of the most beautiful maps dealing with it, will give new insight to the complex—sometimes nostalgic, sometimes practical—relationship of this country to its most storied river.
Guidebook
Author: Lansing to LeClaire Travel Guide
Author: Dean KlinkenbergPublisher: Dean Klinkenberg
ISBN: 9780971690448
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Night Wraith Issue #1
Author: Ty MarcellusPublisher: Beaver's Pond Press
ISBN: 9781643438207
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Born into slavery in 1796, murdered in 1811, and a hero from then on, Night Wraith goes from slave to hero to symbol of hope, and it all begins right here in issue #1!