Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1817 (Classic Reprint)
Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1817 (Classic Reprint)

Author: Stephen H. Long

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9781332210053

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Excerpt from Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1817 This Journal, for the first time published, was written by Stephen H. Long, now a veteran and honored Colonel of the Corps of Topographical Engineers of the United States Army. The voyage was performed in a six-oared skiff, presented to Major Long by Governor William Clark, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs at Saint Louis. Having returned from a tour to the portage of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, he ascended from Prairie du Chien to the Falls of Saint Anthony. The objects of his voyage were to meander and sketch the course of the Upper Mississippi, to exhibit the general topography of the shores, and to designate such sites as were suitable for military purposes. The manuscript was placed in the hands of Keating in 1823, who frequently refers to it in his History of the Expedition to the Sources of the St. Peter, now Minnesota River. Written nearly a half century ago, containing the first account of the legends of Maiden Rock and the Falls of Saint Anthony, and describing the actual appearance of Indian villages then on the sites of numerous busy towns of the present day, it must ever be perused with interest, and considered an important contribution to the Historical Collections of Minnesota. The writer cannot omit the expression of indebtedness to the venerable author, and also to Dr. Edwin James, of Burlington, Iowa, for the courtesy manifested in granting the manuscript for publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

VOYAGE IN A 6-OARED SKIFF TO T
VOYAGE IN A 6-OARED SKIFF TO T

Author: Stephen Harriman 1784-1864 Long

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781373308597

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Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff
Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff

Author: Stephen Harriman Long

Publisher:

Published: 2017-09-30

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9783337336028

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Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff - to the falls of Saint Anthony in 1817 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Rainy Lake House
Rainy Lake House

Author: Theodore Catton

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1421422921

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"Exiles in Indian Country weaves together the biographies of three men who cast their fortunes with the Western fur trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. John Tanner was a 'white Indian' who was taken captive and raised by Ottawa, and lived among the Ottawa and Ojibwa for thirty years, hunting across the northern forests and plains of present-day Ontario, Manitoba, and northern Minnesota. Dr. John McLoughlin fled the law in Quebec at the age of eighteen to work for the Hudson's Bay Company in the Lake Superior region during its two decades of war with the North West Company. Major Stephen H. Long explored the northern borderlands in a time when the United States aimed to take over British-Indian trade in its new western territories. The three men met at the HBC's Rainy Lake House near the Boundary Waters in 1823 after Tanner was badly wounded while trying to take his daughters out of Indian country, to save them from being raped by the white traders. Foregrounding this incident, Theodore Catton examines the events leading up to this fateful encounter through a Rashomon-like tale about the British-American-Indian frontier. Through these three colliding vantage points, the book describes the world of the fur trade: American, British, and Indian; imperial, capital, and labor; explorer, trader, and hunter. In its competing viewpoints, Exiles in Indian Country deftly crafts one grand narrative out of three and reveals the perilous lives of the white adventurers and their Indian families who lived on the fringe--truly the hands of empire"--Provided by publisher.