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.
Reminiscences of Minnesota politics
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 13, 1907." 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This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.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
Intimate letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869
This is a collection of personal letters written by the eminent German-American statesman, Carl Schurz (1829-1906), to his immediate family and close friends. Schurz maintained a legal residence in Watertown, W... 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
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
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
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
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. 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
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.
The First Wisconsin Cavalry at the capture of Jefferson Davis
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately with additions and documents under title: The capture of Jefferson Davis: a narrative of the part taken by Wisconsin... 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
A Methodist circuit rider's horseback tour from Pennsylvania to Wiscon...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900. (LC copy replaced by Microfilm; original call number: E484.3.B78)
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
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 Governor Alexander Ramsey, at meetings ...
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.
A preliminary railroad survey in Wisconsin, 1857,
Drawing on the author's diary, this narrative chronicles Andrew McFarland Davis's experiences as a member of an 1857 surveying expedition for a projected line of the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad from Portage,... 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.
The public lands and school fund of Minnesota
"An address at the monthly meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, in the hall of the House of Representatives, February 13, 1911." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also ... 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
Fifty memorable years at St. Olaf, marking the history of the "College...
This booklet of newspaper articles and photographs, reprinted from the Northfield News, chronicles the first fifty years of St. Olaf college with an emphasis on its relationship to the Norwegian ("Norse") immig... More
Crusader and feminist; letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865;
Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an antislavery advocate, newspaper editor, lecturer, crusader, feminist, and Civil War nurse. She edited two newspapers in Minnesota during the period 1858-1865, when these l... 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
Then came May during American Civil War
This is the nostalgic reminiscence of a childhood lived on a homestead near Petoskey, in northern Michigan, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Georgia Hufford's parents, Canadians of Scots ancestry,... More
Address at Fort Snelling in the celebration of the centennial annivers...
"This celebration was on September 23, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts. Containing a gener...
This is a detailed compendium of information about Michigan in 1839. Part One presents a "general view of the state," describing Michigan's geology, soil, climate and topography as well as its improvements, pro... More
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.
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
Narrative of Morgan L. Martin : in an interview with the editor
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.
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
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1767-1814
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 12 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1767-1814, while v. 11 has papers dealin... 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
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, her life story and reminiscences
This is a collection of reminiscences of and about Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (1814-1900), one of Michigan's foremost spokespersons for coeducation and equal educational rights for women during the late nineteenth ... More
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.
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
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
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
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
Then came May during American Civil War
This is the nostalgic reminiscence of a childhood lived on a homestead near Petoskey, in northern Michigan, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Georgia Hufford's parents, Canadians of Scots ancestry,... More
Between the iron and the pine; a biography of a pioneer family and a p...
Lewis Reimann was the son of German immigrants who ran a boarding-house for miners and loggers in the Iron River district of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This book consists of the author's recollections with ane... More
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lak...
This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditiona... More
Dakota land and Dakota life - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early days at Fort Snelling - Minnesota Historical Society
By E.D. Neill. Includes extracts from Mrs. Elizabeth Ellett's Pioneer women of the West. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The bark covered house, or Back in the woods again; being a graphic an...
This first-person narrative of a pioneer boyhood is intended as a tribute to the author's parents, who emigrated to Dearborn, Michigan, from Putnam County, New York in 1834. William Nowlin describes his father'... 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
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.
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
Robert Dickson, the Indian trader
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
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
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
Some Wisconsin Indian conveyances, 1793-1836
"Deeds, leases, and treaties, executed by Wisconsin Indians prior to 1836 ... selected from the manuscripts in possession of this society, or ... copied from the books of the Brown County register of deeds, at ... 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
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.
Groseilliers and Radisson : the first white men in Minnesota, 1655-56,...
"Read at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, January 13, 1902, and the monthly meetings of the Executive Council, March 11 and May 13, 1901, and March 30 and October 13, 1902." Bibliography:... More
History of wheat raising in the Red River Valley
"An address at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, January 8, 1900." 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.
Boundaries and public land surveys of Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 8, 1907." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early bridges and changes of the land and water surface in the city of...
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, December 13, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." 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 is devoted to another installment of materials selected from... 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.
Le Sueur's explorations : Le Sieur, the explorer of the Minnesota Rive...
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
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
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 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
Narrative of Peter J. Vieau : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Ojibways in Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 8, 1897." 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.
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.
Lumbering and steamboating on the St. Croix River
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 11, 1904." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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.
Boundaries and public land surveys of Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 8, 1907." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Minnesota journalism from 1858 to 1865
"Read at the monthly meetings of the Executive Council, April 10, 1905, November 12, 1906, and March 11, 1907." 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
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
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Experiences in southwestern Minnesota, 1859 to 1867
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 13, 1911." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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.
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.
Myself,, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
John Rogers Commons (1862-1945) was an influential economist, reformer, and labor historian. Born in Hollandsburg, Ohio, Commons grew up on the Indiana-Ohio border, where his early work as a printer kindled his... 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.
Dakota land and Dakota life - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
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.
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
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.
Hennepin as discoverer and author
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 11, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The dual origin of Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 10, 1899." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Notable men of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This book is a photographic roster of several hundred of Wisconsin's most prominent male citizens at the time of publication in 1902. The oval head-portraits are displayed four to a page, accompanied by the sub... 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.
Memorial addresses in honor of Governor Alexander Ramsey, at meetings ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817) is found in vol. 19 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A sheaf of remembrances - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 10, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.