Dakota land and Dakota life - Minnesota Historical Society
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
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 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
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.
American Fur Company employees, 1818-19
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketch...
This is a detailed history of the founding and development of Vermontville, Michigan. Under the leadership of a Congregational minister named Sylvester Cochrane, a group of men from Bennington, Poultney, Benson... More
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
Memorial addresses in honor of Governor Alexander Ramsey, at meetings ...
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
Memorial addresses in honor of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, at the m...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
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.
Early days in the Chippewa Valley,
This is an autobiographical narrative about a young lawyer's search for the best community in which to build a legal practice in the Upper Midwest in the late 1850s. Charles Smith Bundy's experiences reveal how... 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
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
Crusaders, by Meridel Le Sueur, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
This biography of Arthur Le Sueur (1867-1950) and Marian Le Sueur (1877- 1954) was written by Marian's daughter, Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996), the noted Minnesota writer and social activist. Both Arthur and Mar... 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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
How we won the San Juan archipelago
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 9, 1898."
History of education in Minnesota
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.
Charities in Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, February 13, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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 Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1803-04
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Includes bibliographical references.
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
The Kensington rune stone - Minnesota Historical Society
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Presented at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 9. 1910; published in advance of this volume, December 1910." A review of Prof... More
Reminiscences of the Little Crow uprising
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee, November 14, 1910." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
History of the parks and public grounds of St. Paul
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 10, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
Tracks and trails; or, Incidents in the life of a Minnesota territoria...
Tracks and Trails presents incidents in the life of a Minnesota pioneer and touches on many facets of frontier life in the second half of the nineteenth century. It depicts the settlers' contact and conflict wi... 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
The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pion...
This collection of brief first-person descriptions and anecdotes chronicles how Christmas, New Year's, and Thanksgiving were celebrated in nineteenth-century Minnesota. The materials are drawn from documents at... 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
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
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
Reminiscences, historical and personal
Reprinted from Annals of the Society, 1856. 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
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.
Capture of Fort M'Kay, Prairie du Chien, in 1814
"Adapted ... from the Report on Canadian archives for 1887." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
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
Report on the quality and condition of Wisconsin Territory, 1831
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
How we won the San Juan archipelago
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 9, 1898."
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
The treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851 : under Governor Alexander Ra...
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.
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.
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1803-04
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Includes bibliographical references.
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 the last installment of the Haldimand Papers, conti... More
The five million loan - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, January 16, 1911." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Narratives of the Sioux war - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 11, 1911." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
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
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
The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pion...
This collection of brief first-person descriptions and anecdotes chronicles how Christmas, New Year's, and Thanksgiving were celebrated in nineteenth-century Minnesota. The materials are drawn from documents at... 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 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
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
The sale of Fort Snelling, 1857
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 9. 1912." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
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
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
The Cornish in southwest Wisconsin
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.
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
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
Sketches of the history of Hutchinson
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, February 11, 1901." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A gallery of pen sketches in black and white of our Michigan friends "...
This is a collection of cartoons and caricatures of Michigan's business leaders, professionals, politicians, and other notables drawn by cartoonists from such newspapers as the Detroit News and the Free Press. ... 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. This volume opens with the President of the Society's address a... More
Charities in Minnesota - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, February 13, 1905." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
The five million loan - Minnesota Historical Society
"Read at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, January 16, 1911." 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
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
Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form.
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
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.
The Wisconsin Winnebagoes : an interview with Moses Paquette
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
Geographical origin of German immigration to Wisconsin
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.
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
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.
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.
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
Memorial addresses in honor of Governor Alexander Ramsey, at meetings ...
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.
Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan. together ...
This volume is a collection of several different kinds of important historical documents published by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. It opens with a presidential address and other reports, memoria... 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 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.
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