Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867 — John Shaqi
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867Hill, A. J. (Alfred James)
History
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867
Hill, A. J. (Alfred James)
Minnesota -- History
3. _A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, &c._ London, 1828.
(Previously mentioned).
4. _Le Mexique._ 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1830.
5. _L’Italie et L’Europe._ Paris, 1834.
6. _Letter to the Secretary of the Historical Institute of
France_, (in French). Heidelberg, 1836. (Reprinted in the
Bergamo city memorial).
The Indian curiosities and other articles brought by Beltrami to his
native country from the region of our present Minnesota, together with
his MS. papers &c., were presented by his heir, a nephew, shortly after
his death, to the library of Bergamo, the municipality of which city
caused them to be properly displayed in the vestibule of the building.
Signore Rosa, his chief eulogist, says, in a private letter, that there
is no genuine portrait of him extant;—the one by Professor Scuri being
drawn from the engraving in the “Pilgrimage,” and from tradition.
§ 4. REMINISCENCES OF MAJOR TALIAFERRO.
Major Lawrence Taliaferro, of Beaufort, Penn., a soldier of 1812, who
from the year 1819 to 1840, acted as Agent for Indian Affairs for the
tribes of the north-west, and who yet lives in the memories of the Sioux,
to whom he was known as _Mahza Bakah_ or Iron Cutter, furnished, under
date of the 4th of April, 1866, the following information concerning his
friend Beltrami:
“I was in Washington in 1823 relative to my official connection with the
north-western tribes of Minnesota; whilst on my return, in March, to my
post, I found a note, or card, at a hotel in Pittsburg, from Beltrami,
asking permission to bear me company to the Falls of St. Anthony. When
I saw him, his presence and manner at once obtained my confidence, and
leave was granted to do so. We passed together down the Ohio, and up the
Mississippi to Fort Snelling. I divided my quarters with him; and Col.
Snelling and lady invited him to take his meals at their hospitable table.
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