Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821
"Translation from a transcript of the original, which latter is kept in the parish church of Ste. Anne, at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this arti... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
The planting of the Swiss colony at New Glarus, Wis
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts. With il...
This is a late nineteenth-century travel guide largely aimed at the recreational traveler. Descriptions of destinations from Mackinac Island to Traverse City and Omena emphasize their scenic and historical inte... More
Fifty years in America, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Nils Nilsen Rønning (1870-1962) emigrated from Norway to Minnesota in 1887 to settle with his brother, who had emigrated previously. Fifty Years in America narrates Rønning's cultural adjustment and education a... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
Civil War papers - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, January 14, 1907." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Historical collections made by the Pioneer Society of the State of Mic...
This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. The first half of the volume is devoted to a fourth installment... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
Our pioneer days in Minnesota,, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
Gertrude Vandergon wrote her reminiscences in a series of lengthy letters addressed to her children. It is difficult to date these letters accurately because of conflicting information in the preface and epilog... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
History of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad, 1864-1881
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 13, 1903." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Northern Wisconsin, a hand-book for the homeseeker,
This guide, compiled under the direction of the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, champions the economic promise of Wisconsin's northern counties for potential settlers in the 1... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The successive chiefs named Wabasha
"An address ... at a meeting of the Old Settlers of Southeastern Minnesota, in Winona, February 12, 1906." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early days in Goodhue County - Minnesota Historical Society
"An address at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Soceity, January 16, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Canoeing with the Cree,, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This is the narrative of a canoe trip by renowned news commentator Eric Sevareid (1912-1992). After graduating from Minneapolis High School, he embarked with his classmate, Walt Port, on a journey that would ta... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
History of pioneer lumbering on the upper Mississippi and its tributar...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 8, 1890." Also printed in the author's History of lumbering in Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1900. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Recollections of a long life, 1829-1915,
Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Isaac Stephenson (1829-1918) followed his interests as a lumberman, sailor, and entrepreneur to Bangor, Maine and, later, to the northern woods of Wisconsin. In 1858, he purc... More
Documents relating to the Episcopal church and mission in Green Bay, 1...
Selected from the archives of the Society, in part from the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers and from the Papers of George Boyd, Indian agent. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.... More
Medical history of Michigan .., Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
This illustrated two-volume set compiled by the Michigan State Medical Society presents information about medical developments in Michigan in the early and middle nineteenth century in loosely-organized chapter... More
Floral home; or, First years of Minnesota: early sketches, later settl...
Harriet E. Bishop (1817-1883) emigrated to Minnesota from New England in 1847. She was recruited by Catherine Beecher's Board of National Popular Education to establish a school in St. Paul, Minnesota and to se... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
Reminiscences of Little Crow - Minnesota Historical Society
"An address at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, January 21, 1907." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Journal of an Episcopalian missionary's tour to Green Bay, 1834
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Episcopalianism in Wisconsin, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. Madison, 1898.
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The story of the Black Hawk War
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Includes bibliographical references. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated ...
Sojourner Truth (1795-1883) was originally a Dutch-speaking slave in Hurley, New York (Ulster County) who became one of the nineteenth century's most eloquent voices for the causes of anti-slavery and women's r... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Letter-book of Thomas Forsyth, 1814-1818
Consists chiefly of correspondence between Forsyth and Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois Territory, concerning their dealings with the Indian tribes as allies. Also available in digital form on the Library o... More
History of pioneer lumbering on the upper Mississippi and its tributar...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 8, 1890." Also printed in the author's History of lumbering in Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1900. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Fur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815
"From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Mostly Mississippi, - Public domain book scan / drawing
Harold Speakman (1888-1928), a writer and visual artist, journeyed the Mississippi from its Minnesota headwaters to New Orleans by canoe and on a twenty-foot house boat in the company of his wife, Frances "Russ... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Margaret Fuller. Summer on the lakes, in 1843. Public domain book.
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850), better known as Margaret Fuller, was a writer, editor, translator, early feminist thinker, critic, and social reformer who was associated with the Transcendentalist mov... More
Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes...
This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes reg... More
Men of progress: embracing biographical sketches of representative Mic...
This book provides full-page biographies of men prominent in Michigan's business, professional, political, educational, and cultural life in the late nineteenth century. Although the entries are not in alphabet... More
Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated ...
Sojourner Truth (1795-1883) was originally a Dutch-speaking slave in Hurley, New York (Ulster County) who became one of the nineteenth century's most eloquent voices for the causes of anti-slavery and women's r... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an account of the lead and co...
This detailed travelogue, the concluding part of a two-volume work written primarily for a British readership, discusses the United States' geological resources and offers critical observations about the manner... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
Lives of the governors of Minnesota,
This Minnesota Historical Society publication provides biographical chapters on all Minnesota's territorial and state governors from Alexander Ramsey through John Albert Johnson. The author, James Baker, was a... More
The first railroad in Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, Feb. 8, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an account of the lead and co...
This detailed travelogue, the concluding part of a two-volume work written primarily for a British readership, discusses the United States' geological resources and offers critical observations about the manner... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical histor...
This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined... More
A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an account of the lead and co...
This detailed travelogue, the concluding part of a two-volume work written primarily for a British readership, discusses the United States' geological resources and offers critical observations about the manner... More
A Red River townsite speculation in 1857
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 13, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The French voyageurs to Minnesota during the seventeenth century
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Speech of Hon. H.H. Sibley, of Minn., before the Committee on Election...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Minnesota, the empire state of the new North-West, the commercial, man...
This 1878 pamphlet addresses itself to laboring and landless men, as well as to those of moderate means, who are seeking to escape the "tyrannies and thankless toil of the old world" and the overcrowded conditi... More
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: a grammar of t...
Blackbird (Mack-e-te-be-nessy) was an Ottawa chief's son who served as an official interpreter for the U.S. government and later as a postmaster while remaining active in Native American affairs as a teacher, a... More
George P. Delaplaine's statement
General Delaplaine's recollections of Solomon Juneau and Andres Vieau documented in interview with Reuben Thwaites held November 2, 1887. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
"Three score years and ten": life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minn...
Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve (1819-1907) was the daughter of a U.S. Army officer, one of the first group of soldiers assigned to establish a fort in what was then known to whites as the Northwest. This was Fo... More
Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo."
This pamphlet consists of photographs of views and landmarks in various locales along the southern shore of Lake Superior: Marquette, St. Ignace, Ishpeming, Champion, Collinsville, Sault Ste. Marie, and Mackina... More
The planting of the Swiss colony at New Glarus, Wis
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Progressive men of Minnesota. Biographical sketches and portraits of t...
Published by The Minneapolis Journal, this 1897 work offers brief biographical sketches of men from business, politics, and other professions who were considered by the Journal to have taken leading roles in th... More
Biographic notes of old settlers
"A paper read before the Old Settlers' Association of Minnesota, at its annual meeting, June 1, 1897; also read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council of the Minnesota Historical Society, December 13, ... More
History of pioneer lumbering on the upper Mississippi and its tributar...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 8, 1890." Also printed in the author's History of lumbering in Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1900. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Souvenir, National Grange in Michigan. Lansing, November 12-22, 1902
This souvenir booklet was published in conjunction with a meeting of the National Grange in Michigan. It not only contains brief histories of the National Grange, the Michigan state grange, and the local chapte... More
Old government mills at the Falls of St. Anthony
Account of the flour mill and saw mill built by the government, 1821-1823, on the present site of Minneapolis. "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 14, 1904." Also available in digital f... More
Memorial addresses in honor of Judge Charles E. Flandrau, at the month...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Missionary work at Red Wing, 1849 to 1852
"Presented at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 12, 1902." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Minnesota journalism in the territorial period
"Read in a series of five papers a monthly meetings of the Executive Council, Feb. 10 and Nov. 10, 1902, Feb. 9 and Oct 12, 1903, and Feb. 8, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Life story of Rasmus B. Anderson;
Rasmus Anderson (1846-1936), the American author, scholar, editor, businessman and diplomat, intertwines his life story with the cultural and institutional history of the Norwegian-American community as a whole... More
The story of my childhood, written for my children
This brief autobiography written for the author's children and illustrated with photographs pays particular attention to children's activities and education in mid- nineteenth-century Minnesota. George describe... More
The Minnesota guide. A hand book of information for the travelers, ple...
This is the 1869 version of an annual publication designed promote the state of Minnesota and to provide information about it to prospective settlers. The Minnesota Guide describes the history and geography of ... More
Among the Wolverines: a series of letters on the resources, growth and...
This pamphlet brings together a series of letters originally published in theChicago Price Current under the pseudonym Massabesic. They chronicle the writer's travels through Michigan's towns and cities by the ... More
Minnesota, its character and climate. Likewise sketches of other resor...
This panegyric extols the beauty, abundant natural resources, and health- restoring environment of Minnesota, describing the state's regions and its many tourist attractions. It is directed towards those suffer... More
Letter of Mesnard : written on the eve of embarkation for Lake Superio...
By Rev. E.D. Neill. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Dakota land and Dakota life - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Pike's explorations in Minnesota, 1805-6
Extracts from Pike's An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi ... Philadelphia, 1810. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
St. Louis River - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Department of Hudson's Bay - Minnesota Historical Society
Translated from the French by Mrs. Letitia May. Also published in J.W. Bond's Minnesota and its resources, New York, 1853, under title: Prince Rupert's land--the Hudson Bay and Northwest Company. Also available... More
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest
This book recounts the experiences of a young, genteel wife adjusting to the military life and frontier conditions of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her perilous journeys b... More
Five years in Minnesota. Sketches of life in a western state
Maurice Farrar was an Englishman authorized by Minnesota in 1880 to act as an Agent for the promotion of Immigration through lecturing in Great Britain. He spent five years in Minnesota during the late 1870s an... More
Thompson Maxwell's narrative, 1760-1763
Narrative of an expedition to take possession of Detroit, Mackinaw, and other western posts surrendered to the British by the capitulation of Montreal. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early schools in Green Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Documents covering the period from 1817 to 1832 selected from the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers in possession of the Society.
The history of Fort Winnebago, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 191...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of: Army life in Wisconsin Territory. Madison, 1898.
Fort Winnebago orderly book, 1834-36
Presented to the Society by Mrs. Charlotte O. Van Cleve, whose husband, Lieut. Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, was for most of this period acting adjutant of the Fifth Infantry. Also available in digital form on th... More
Osawgenong, a Sac tradition, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
"Mr. Johnston, a half-breed educated Chippewa, and brother of the first wife of Henry R. Schoolcraft, communicated this tradition from Grand Haven Bay, Lake Michigan, early in 1845, to the New York Historical S... More
History of Duluth, and of St. Louis County, to the year 1870
"Presented and read in part at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 9, 1898. This paper, in a somewhat more extended form, was later published by the Duluth news tribune ... as a series of articles... More