[346] Taliaferro to William Clark, May 31, 1835.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. III, No. 234. [347] Taliaferro to Herring, July 16, 1835.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. III, No. 238. [348] Taliaferro to William Clark, September 2, 1835; Taliaferro to E. Herring, September 20, 1835.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. III, Nos. 251, 252. [349] Taliaferro to William Clark, May 26, 1831.--_William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 195. [350] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 25, 1831. [351] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 28th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 269. [352] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 490. [353] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, January 2, 1851. [354] Snelling to Atkinson, May 31, 1827.--_Indian Office Files_, 1827, No. 10. [355] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, May 16, 1850. Other occasions when Indians were imprisoned for similar causes are mentioned in _The Minnesota Pioneer_, September 23, 1852, April 20, 1854. [356] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, October 14, 1852. [357] Report of Agent A. J. Bruce, September 1, 1846.--_Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 4, p. 246. [358] Beltrami's _A Pilgrimage in Europe and America_, Vol. II, pp. 233, 234. [359] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 31, 1831; Taliaferro to Captain W. R. Lovett, June 30, 1831, in _Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. II, No. 150. [360] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 138. [361] Taliaferro to Clark, October 4, 1830.--_William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 68. [362] _Taliaferro's Diary_, June 29, 1834. CHAPTER IX [363] For an account of the attack on the trading house system see Quaife's _Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835_, pp. 301-309; also _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, Vol. XX, pp. xiii-xviii. [364] This account of the fur trade is based upon the reminiscences of Mr. H. H. Sibley in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 245-247; and Turner's _The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin_ in the _Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science_, Vol. IX, pp. 601-607. [365] If an Indian failed continually in paying up his credits, the trader would refuse him any more goods. This would bring on the enmity of the hunter and his whole family. Such was the case of Joseph R. Brown mentioned in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, p. 247. [366] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. II, pp. 139-146, Vol. III, pp. 332, 333, Vol. IV, pp. 729-735. [367] A copy of an American trading license is published in the _Report from the Select Committee on the Hudson's Bay Company_, p. 282. [368] _Indian Office Files_, 1831, No. 70. [369] _Indian Office Files_, 1831, No. 82. [370] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 200. [371] _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, Vol. XX, p. 43