Minnesota and Dacotah

Name: Minnesota and Dacotah
Author: Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)

Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)

Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1829-1922; Dakota Territory -- Description and travel; Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory; Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota; Minnesota -- Description and travel; Minnesota -- History -- To 1858

MINNESOTA AND DACOTAH:

 IN

 Letters descriptive of a Tour through the North-West,

 IN THE AUTUMN OF 1856.

 WITH

 INFORMATION RELATIVE TO PUBLIC LANDS,

 AND

 A TABLE OF STATISTICS.

 By C. C. ANDREWS,

 COUNSELOR AT LAW; EDITOR OF THE OFFICIAL OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL
 OF THE UNITED STATES.

  "From the forests and the prairies,
   From the great lakes of the Northland,
   From the land of the Ojibways,
   From the land of the Dacotahs."

                                                           LONGFELLOW

                           SECOND EDITION.
                         W A S H I N G T O N:
                            ROBERT FARNHAM
                                 1857
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   Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

   C. C. ANDREWS,

   In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and
   for the District of Columbia.
                               _______

 PHILADELPHIA:

 STEREOTYPED BY E. B. MEARS.

 PRINTED BY C. SHERMAN & SON.
                               _______

 THESE

 "Trivial Fond Records"

 ARE

 RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

 TO THE

 YOUNG MEN OF MINNESOTA.
                               _______

  INTRODUCTION.
                               _______

    THE object of publishing these letters can be very briefly stated.

During the last autumn I made a tour into Minnesota, upwards of a
hundred and thirty miles north-west of St. Paul, to satisfy myself as
to the character and prospects of the territory. All I could learn
from personal observation, and otherwise, concerning its society and
its ample means of greatness, impressed me so favorably as to the
advantages still open to the settler, that I put down in the form of
letters such facts as I thought would be of general interest. Since
their publication-- in the Boston, Post-- a few requests, which I
could not comply with, were made for copies of them all. I was led to
believe, therefore, that if I revised them and added information
relative to unoccupied lands, the method of preemption, and the
business interests of the territory, they would be worthy of
publication in a more permanent form. Conscious that what I have
written is an inadequate description of that splendid domain, I shall
be happy indeed to have contributed, in ever so small a degree, to
advance its growth and welfare.

Here I desire to acknowledge the aid which has been readily extended
to my undertaking by the Delegate from Minnesota-- Hon. HENRY M.
RICE-- whose faithful and unwearied services-- I will take the liberty
to add-- in behalf of the territory, merit the highest praise. I am
also indebted for valuable information to EARL S. GOODRICH, Esq.,
editor of the Daily Pioneer (St. Paul) and Democrat.

In another place I give a list of the works which I have had occasion
to consult or refer to.

                                                        C. C. ANDREWS.

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Minnesota and Dacotah

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