The early settlement and history of Redwood County
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 9, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The French regime in Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
Vol. I (v. 16): This volume is the first of three volumes devoted to the era of French dominance in the fur trade region of the upper Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi (1634-1763), emphasizing the period be... More
Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,
This brief journal, written for the author's wife and father, describes a three- week trip from Rochester, New York to southern Michigan by way of the Great Lakes. Swan's business seems to have been the manufac... More
Memorial addresses in honor of General John B. Sanborn, at the monthly...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A Sioux narrative of the outbreak in 1862, and of Sibley's expedition ...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, Dec. 14, 1903, by Mr. R.I. Holcombe, who has added several footnotes." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons
This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor S... More
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.
The beginning of banking in Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 11, 1908." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...
This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It contains a further installment of materials selected from th... More
Collections and researches made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical...
This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It is devoted to another installment of materials selected from... More
General James Shields, soldier, orator, statesman
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 13, 1914." 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
A merry Briton in pioneer Wisconsin; a contemporary narrative reprinte...
This volume is the last five chapters of a longer travel account, Life in The West: Back-wood Leaves and Prairie Flowers: Rough Sketches on the Borders of the Picturesque, the Sublime, and Ridiculous. Extracts ... More
Early courts of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
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.
Sieur du Luth : the explorer between Mille Lacs and Lake Superior
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...
This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More
History of the Ojibways : based upon traditions and oral statements
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
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.
An English officer's description of Wisconsin in 1837
From the author's A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions. Philadelphia, 1839. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part o... 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
Reminiscences of Minnesota during the territorial period
"Read before the Society, April 25, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Journal of a trip to Michigan in 1841,
This brief journal, written for the author's wife and father, describes a three- week trip from Rochester, New York to southern Michigan by way of the Great Lakes. Swan's business seems to have been the manufac... More
Early Episcopal churches and missions in Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 12, 1902." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A Sioux narrative of the outbreak in 1862, and of Sibley's expedition ...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, Dec. 14, 1903, by Mr. R.I. Holcombe, who has added several footnotes." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Chapel of St. Paul, and the beginnings of the Catholic Church in M...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, December 8, 1902. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early steamboating on the Minnesota and Red Rivers
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee, May 13, 1901." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Rev. Ezekiel Gilbert Gear, D.D., chaplain at Fort Snelling, 1838-1858
"An address on the occasion of the presentation of his portrait to the Minnesota Historical Society, at the monthly meeting of its Executive Council, February 12th, 1906." Also available in digital form on the ... More
Memorial addresses in honor of Judge Greenleaf Clark
"Presented at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 8, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The nation and the ship - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 12, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Published in the Minnesota magazine (University of Minnesota), vo... More
Memories of the lonesome trail, "Soo" line, Minneapolis, St. Paul and ...
This booklet contains two narratives about the Lonesome Trail, a major route for trappers, woodsmen, and settlers which extended from St. Paul to the head of the lakes at Superior, Wisconsin. The Lonesome Trail... More
Railroad legislation in Minnesota, 1849 to 1875
"Partly read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council of the Minnesota Historical Society, November 13, 1911." Also published separately, St. Paul, 1912, as thesis (doctoral), University of Pennsylvania.... More
Reminiscences of the early days of Minnesota, 1851 to 1861
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 12, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
Petticoat surgeon, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This is the autobiography of a distinguished Michigan native who helped to establish a place for women in medicine. Bertha Van Hoosen was born in 1863 to a Dutch Canadian father and a third-generation Michigan ... More
A new home--who'll follow? or, Glimpses of western life
Caroline Matilda (Stansbury) Kirkland (1801-1864) was a middle-class white woman with a literary bent who moved with her husband and children to the woods of Michigan in the mid-1830s to settle a newly-planned ... More
Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the No...
Christopher Columbus Andrews (1829-1922), future Civil War general, diplomat, and state official, wrote these twenty-six letters on a trip to the Minnesota and Dakota [Dacotah] territory during the fall of 1856... 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
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
History of the Ojibways : based upon traditions and oral statements
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
Sketch of Morgan L. Martin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of: Reminiscences of Morgan L. Martin, 1827-1887. Madison, 1888.
The boundaries of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
Lyman Copeland Draper, a memoir
"Address delivered before the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at its annual meeting, December 10, 1891." Includes bibliography, p. 20-22. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web sit... More
McCall's journal of a visit to Wisconsin in 1830
"Sketch of James M'Call, by Ansel J. M'Call": p. [170]-172. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Papers of Indian agent Boyd, 1832
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "The extracts here given cover the period of the Black Hawk War, being the documentary history of the Stambaugh expedition." "Sketch of George... More
Narration of a friendly Sioux - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, December 13, 1897." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The French regime in Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
Vol. I (v. 16): This volume is the first of three volumes devoted to the era of French dominance in the fur trade region of the upper Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi (1634-1763), emphasizing the period be... More
Recollections of early territorial days and legislation
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 14, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A history of the Capitol buildings of Minnesota : with some account of...
"An address prepared at the request of the Minnesota Historical Society, and delivered at its Annual Meeting, January 8, 1906." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Mackinac register : 1725-1821, register in the parish of Michilimackin...
"Translation from a copy of the original in possession of the parish church of Ste. Anne at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Mackinac re... More
Reminiscences of pioneer days in St. Paul
Frank Moore, born in 1843, moved to Minnesota from Pennsylvania when he was fifteen years old. Shortly after arriving in St. Paul, Moore was employed by The Minnesotian, a paper owned and managed by his brother... More
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
Memories of the lonesome trail, "Soo" line, Minneapolis, St. Paul and ...
This booklet contains two narratives about the Lonesome Trail, a major route for trappers, woodsmen, and settlers which extended from St. Paul to the head of the lakes at Superior, Wisconsin. The Lonesome Trail... More
Recollections of an immigrant - Norway. Public domain image
This book recounts the immigration experience of a prominent Minneapolis lawyer who served as a local elected official (Judge of Probate) and led an active civic life. Ueland was originally a Norwegian from the... More
Minnesota, its advantages to settlers, 1869. Being a brief synopsis of...
This book was published by the State of Minnesota and was intended to attract settlers. Among the attractions it promotes are the State's agricultural and manufacturing resources and production, climate and its... More
Le Sueur's explorations : Le Sieur, the explorer of the Minnesota Rive...
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
Our field of historical research : address of Gov. Alex. Ramsey, presi...
Also published in Annals of the Society, 1851, under title: Address of Gov. A. Ramsey. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix contai...
William Henry Carman Folsom (1817-1900), Minnesota legislator, businessman, and historian, emigrated from Maine to the Upper Midwest when he was nineteen years old. There he lived the rest of his life, achievin... 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.
Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chi...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
H. P. Hall's observations; being more or less a history of political c...
Harlan Page Hall (1838-1907) founded the St. Paul Dispatch in 1868 and devoted most of his life to journalism. This book, based on personal reminiscences, chronicles the contests and struggles of Minnesota's po... 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.
Memorial addresses in honor of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, at the m...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Memorial addresses in honor of Judge Charles E. Flandrau, at the month...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Trials of a lawyer; autobiography
This memoir deals primarily with the professional and political life of a progressive Minnesota lawyer and congressman, James Manahan (1866-1932). Manahan was born to Irish pioneer parents in Chatfield and beca... More
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
Trails of a paintbrush,, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This is the autobiography of a successful nineteenth-century Minnesotan artist raised on a pioneer farm along the Root River near High Forest (Olmstead County) in southeastern Minnesota. Nicholas Brewer display... 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
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
Memorials of a half-century, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard ... More
Geographical names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chi...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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.
How Wisconsin came by its large German element
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
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
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.
A Sioux narrative of the outbreak in 1862, and of Sibley's expedition ...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, Dec. 14, 1903, by Mr. R.I. Holcombe, who has added several footnotes." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A child of the sea, and life among the Mormons
This is the vivid memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century girlhood spent mostly on the islands of Lake Michigan and the onshore communities of Manistique, Charlevoix, Traverse City, and Little Traverse (now Harbor S... More
History of education in Minnesota
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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.
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. This volume opens with the President of the Society's address a... More
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825) is found in vol. 20 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Railroad legislation in Minnesota, 1849 to 1875
"Partly read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council of the Minnesota Historical Society, November 13, 1911." Also published separately, St. Paul, 1912, as thesis (doctoral), University of Pennsylvania.... More
Northern Minnesota boundary surveys in 1822 to 1826, under the Treaty ...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 8, 1913; previously published in the Duluth news tribune, July 27, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Bib... More
Memories of the early life and development of Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, January 12, 1914." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Reminscences of a pioneer missionary,, Flanders
The author of these memoirs, Chrysostom Verwyst, was an immigrant from North Brabant, Holland, who arrived in Boston in 1848 at the age of seven. His family had migrated with a group of fellow Catholics who had... 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
Narrative journal of travels through the northwestern regions of the U...
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to loc... More
Schoolcraft's exploring tour of 1832
Also published in Annals of the Society, 1852, under title: Exploring tour. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A summer in the wilderness; embracing a canoe voyage up the Mississipp...
Charles Lanman (1819-1895) was a Michigan-born landscape painter, sportsman, and writer who studied under Asher Durand and published several books about his journeys through the wilderness and newly developing ... 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 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
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
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
Who were the first men? - 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.
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
Facts and figures about Michigan; a hand-book of the state, statistica...
This is a small compendium of statistics, charts, timetables, and political information published by the Michigan Central Railroad. It includes lists of members of state boards, the state legislature, and offic... More
Prairie du Chien in 1827 : letters of Joseph M. Street to Gov. Ninian ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.