[167] _The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. VIII, pp. 89, 90. [168] Rhodes's _History of the United States_, Vol. IV, p. 328. [169] _The American Annual Cyclopaedia_, 1863, p. 816. [170] Bancroft's _History of Oregon_, Vol. II, pp. 611, 612. For the career of General Canby see Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. I, pp. 517, 518. [171] This incident is taken from Folsom's _Fifty Years in the Northwest_, pp. 755, 756. Mr. Folsom says he took it "from a St. Paul paper of 1887". [172] For the Dred Scott case see McMaster's _A History of the People of the United States_, Vol. VIII, pp. 278, 279. [173] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. I, p. 50. [174] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. IV, p. 564. [175] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. IV, pp. 729-739. [176] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. IX, p. 395. [177] Quoted from the complaint of the agent, Nathaniel McLean, September 25, 1850, in _Senate Documents_, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 106. [178] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 249. [179] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 253, 254. [180] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 353. [181] Taliaferro to Crawford, July 15, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_, 1839, No. 512. [182] These papers are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. The dates covered in these diaries are from December, 1830, to June, 1831; May 25 to September 21, 1833; May 23 to August 28, 1834. [183] These letters are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. In Volume I of these letters is the following notice: "These 326 letters, are part of the great mass of correspondence received by Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro, Indian Agent at Fort Snelling, 1819-1840. They constitute but a small part of his accumulations in twenty years. The rest were burned in his house at Bedford, Pa., in 18__. It was a great loss to us, as, had they been spared, we would have received all of them. But even these 326 contain a large amount of valuable material for Minnesota history. Even as autographs they are valuable, [see autobiography of Taliaferro, Vol. 6, Coll.] These letters were given by Maj. T. in March, 1868. Arranged, bound and indexed (by J. F. W.) 1891." [184] Photostatic copies of many of these letters were taken and are to be found in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where they were consulted. [185] These letter books are now in the possession of the Kansas State Historical Society at Topeka, where they were consulted. The only volume containing letters from Major Taliaferro is referred to as the _William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_. [186] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 253.