[187] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900_, p. 620. In the _Taliaferro Letters_ are many letters from William Clark and Elbert Herring in which they address Mr. Taliaferro as "major". [188] _Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I, No. 11. A note on this letter gives these dates. [189] Nowhere is the date of his arrival at Fort Snelling given. In his autobiography he writes of his journey: "Jean Baptiste Faribault and family, had gone through by land, in charge of Colonel Leavenworth's horses and cows".--_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 198. It was in the spring of 1820 that Faribault performed this service.--_Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, p. 103. [190] Clark to the Secretary of War, August 20, 1832.--_Indian Office Files_, 1832, No. 285. For his resignation see _Indian Office Files_, 1824, No. 39. [191] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 24, 1831. [192] Taliaferro to Crawford, December 12, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_, 1839, No. 516. [193] Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), pp. 337-339. [194] In the report for 1850 the agency at St. Peter's is designated a "Sub-Agency".--_Senate Documents_, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 103. [195] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 339, 340. [196] _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 213, 1827, No. 54, 1843, No. 222. [197] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, p. 341. CHAPTER V [198] See _Notes on Canada and the North-West States of America_ in _Blackwood's Magazine_, Vol. LXXVIII, p. 323, September, 1855. These articles by Laurence Oliphant were later published in book form under the title of _Minnesota and the Far West_. [199] This is the height given in Nicollet's _Report intended to illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River_, p. 69. [200] Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, p. 103. [201] This sketch of the fort is obtained from the map of Fort Snelling in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 431; and from a _Report of the capacity and condition of the barracks, quarters, hospital, storehouses, &c., at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, made to the Quartermaster General_. This report was made on August 23, 1856. It is printed in _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, pp. 407-409. [202] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. IV, p. 122. [203] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, p. 295. [204] A statement of the equipment at the various posts during the fourth quarter of 1834 is printed in the _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. V, p. 853-900. [205] Taliaferro to Lucas, September 30, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_, 1839, No. 492. [206] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153. [207] Taliaferro to William Clark, August 17, 1830.--_Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 139. [208] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 7, 1831.