[92] Marsh to Taliaferro, June 26, 1827.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, No. 76. [93] This was the opening of the Winnebago War, often called the "Red Bird War". Accounts of it are given in William Joseph Snelling's _Early Days at Prairie du Chien_ in the _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, Vol. V, pp. 144-153; and _State Papers_, 1st Session, 20th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, pp. 150-163. [94] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 118. [95] For the movement of troops see _State Papers_, 1st Session, 20th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, pp. 150-163. [96] Taliaferro to Cass, October 4, 1832.--_Indian Office Files_, 1832, No. 226. [97] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, pp. 439, 440, 459; Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), pp. 483-487. [98] For an account of the Winnebagoes and their many migrations see Jackson's _A Century of Dishonor_, pp. 218-256. [99] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt. 2, Document No. 5, pp. 1028, 1029; _The Minnesota Pioneer_, September 13, 1849. [100] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, November 28, December 12, 1849. [101] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol. II, Pt. 3, Document No. 2, p. 421. "The recent arrival at Fort Snelling of a company of dragoons, so long wanted, will greatly assist in intercepting the migration southward of this discontented people."--Report of Alexander Ramsey, October 21, 1850, in _Senate Documents_, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 81. [102] This reservation was agreed upon by the treaty concluded at Washington, D. C., on February 27, 1855; Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 690-693. [103] _Senate Documents_, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, pp. 316, 423. [104] Bryce's _The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company_, pp. 365-372. A description of a hunt, written in French by Rev. M. Belcourt, is given in _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. VIII, Document No. 51, pp. 44-52. [105] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. VIII, Document No. 51, p. 4. [106] This was during the period that Professor William A. Dunning describes as "The Roaring Forties". "And the far flung interests of the British Empire need no more striking illustration than the fact that in whatever direction the Americans sought to expand their bounds, whether on the Atlantic or on the Pacific, in the Gulf of the tropics or under the Arctic circle, they found subjects of the Queen, with vested rights, opposing the movement."--Dunning's _The British Empire and the United States_, pp. 96, 97. [107] Captain Sumner's report is printed in the _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 2, pp. 217-220. It is reprinted with explanatory notes in _The Iowa Journal of History and Politics_, Vol. XI, pp. 258-267.