[528] See the description of St. Paul in 1849 in Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, pp. 94-100. [529] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, January 30, 1850. [530] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, January 23, February 27, June 27, 1850. [531] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, November 27, 1851. [532] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, April 17, 1851. [533] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XV, p. 534; _Post Returns_, July, 1855, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. [534] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, February 20, 27, 1850. [535] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, February 6, 13, 1850; _Minnesota Chronicle and Register_, February 10, 1851. [536] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, February 13, 1850. [537] Bishop's _Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota_, pp. 152-163. [538] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, August 23, 1849. [539] These two treaties were the treaty with the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux at Traverse des Sioux, July 23, 1851; and with the Mdewakanton and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux at Mendota on August 5, 1851.--Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 588-593. INDEX Abercrombie, John J., fort built by, 50 Adams, Mrs. Ann, 245 Agency house, fire in, 101 Agriculture (see Farming) Aitkin, Mr., 144 Akin, Mr., information furnished by, 172 Alcohol, purchase of, 88 American Fur Company, fort purchased from, 21; warehouse and store of, 81; monopoly of, 135; reference to, 138, 142, 188, 209 Americans, hostility of Indians to, during War of 1812, 8-12; Indians impressed by supremacy of, 112-118; protection promised by, 122 Ammunition, giving of, to Indians, 110 Andrews, Joseph F., 230 Annuities, 42, 43, 111, 126; payment of, to Indians, 184, 185 Apple River, massacre on, 132, 232 Apples, purchase of, 88 Ardourly, Jack, 100 Armorer's shop, 77, 78, 79 Articles of Confederation, 176 Assiniboine River, 5 Astor, John Jacob, 135, 209 Atkinson, Henry, fort named in honor of, 30; reference to, 34 _Aunt Phyllis's Cabin_, 62