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
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.
A woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland
Canadian-born Laura Haviland (1808-1898) was an evangelically-minded Quaker and later (for a time) a Wesleyan Methodist, active in education and social justice issues throughout her life. A Woman's Life Work is... 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
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
The Wisconsin Winnebagoes : an interview with Moses Paquette
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
History of transportation in Minnesota
"An address at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, Jan. 10, 1898." 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
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
The treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851 : under Governor Alexander Ra...
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
Old rail fence corners; the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history
This is an anthology of anecdotes about the Minnesota frontier, dating primarily from the 1840s and 1850s. The material seems to have been collected directly from original settlers who were still alive in the e... More
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
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
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
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
Nobody owns us; the story of Joe Gilbert, midwestern rebel
This laudatory biography of Joseph Gilbert, an outspoken British-American leader of the cooperative movement in the Midwest, is based on interviews, newspapers and magazine articles, and transcripts of court pr... More
Tales of Hoffman, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This is a collection of semi-autobiographical vignettes about Jewish life in St. Paul, Minnesota. The scenes take place in the old West Side, which was St. Paul's major Jewish neighborhood during the first half... 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 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, 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
A woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland
Canadian-born Laura Haviland (1808-1898) was an evangelically-minded Quaker and later (for a time) a Wesleyan Methodist, active in education and social justice issues throughout her life. A Woman's Life Work is... 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
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
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
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
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
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
Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Wi...
William Hypolitus Keating (1799-1840), a professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), compiled this two-volume account of a scientific expedition in 1823 under the auspic... 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
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
Dickson and Grignon papers, 1812-1815
"Supplement the Lawe and Grignon papers published in vol. X, Wisconsin historical collections, pp. 94-121." Edited by Reuben Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
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.
Report on the quality and condition of Wisconsin Territory, 1831
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.
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
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.
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
Tales of Hoffman, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This is a collection of semi-autobiographical vignettes about Jewish life in St. Paul, Minnesota. The scenes take place in the old West Side, which was St. Paul's major Jewish neighborhood during the first half... More
Hand book of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This pocket-sized book provides statistical and geographical information about Wisconsin in the 1850s, including topographical descriptions, a listing of natural resources, educational data, a discussion of ava... 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 Cornish in southwest Wisconsin
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.
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)
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
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.
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 Harlan Page Hall
"Presented at a meeting of this Society with the Minnesota Editorial Association, in the Senate chamber of the Old Capitol, St. Paul, on Monday evening, September 14, 1908." Read by Captain Henry A. Castle., of... 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
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.
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
History of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
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
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
Recollections of the city and people of St. Paul, 1843-1898
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 12, 1898." 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.
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.
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
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
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
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
History of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.
"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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Tales of Hoffman, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This is a collection of semi-autobiographical vignettes about Jewish life in St. Paul, Minnesota. The scenes take place in the old West Side, which was St. Paul's major Jewish neighborhood during the first half... 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 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
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
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 woman's life-work: labors and experiences of Laura S. Haviland
Canadian-born Laura Haviland (1808-1898) was an evangelically-minded Quaker and later (for a time) a Wesleyan Methodist, active in education and social justice issues throughout her life. A Woman's Life Work is... More
Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form.
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
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.
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.
Diary of one of the original colonist of New Glarus, 1845
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900.
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.
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
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
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
Old rail fence corners; the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history
This is an anthology of anecdotes about the Minnesota frontier, dating primarily from the 1840s and 1850s. The material seems to have been collected directly from original settlers who were still alive in the e... 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
Long, long ago, by Clara Clough Lenroot
This is a short, anecdotal reminiscence of a mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin girlhood, written over fifty years later. Clara Clough Lenroot grew up in the country, as well as the towns of Hudson, Osceola Mills... 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
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
Detroit and the pleasure resorts of northern Michigan. Compliments of ...
Cover title. Also available in digital form.
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
Documents relating to the Catholic Church in Green Bay, and the missio...
Compiled by Reuben G. Thwaites. 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
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
Diary of one of the original colonist of New Glarus, 1845
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900.
Documents relating to the Stockbridge mission, 1825-48
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Presbyterianism in Wisconsin, by Cutting Marsh, Madison, 1900.
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
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 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.