A History of the City of Saint Paul, and of the County of Ramsey, Minnesota |
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afterwards American Fur Company appointed April arrived August Bishop born BRUNSON building BURBANK Capt Captain CARVER CHARLES Chippewas church citizens claim Company DANIEL HOPKINS December died EDMUND RICE erected fall Fort Snelling GERVAIS GOODHUE Indians IRVINE italics elected JAMES January JOHN JOSEPH July June KITTSON Lake Lake Pepin land LARPENTEUR Legislature lived LOUIS ROBERT March MARSHALL Mendota miles Minnesota Mississippi murder named November October old settlers organized PARRANT Pembina PHELAN PIERRE PARRANT Pig's Eye Pioneer Prairie du Chien purchased Railroad Ramsey county real estate Red River Regiment removed to Saint resident RICE Saint Anthony Saint Anthony Falls Saint Croix Saint Louis Saint Paul Saint Peter Saint Peter's Second Lieutenant September settled in Saint SIBLEY Sioux Snelling soon spring steamboat Stillwater subsequently Territory Third street tion town trade treaty VETAL GUERIN West Saint Paul WILLIAM winter Wisconsin
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Page 17 - They waste us — ay — like April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away ; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day, — Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the western sea.
Page 14 - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; - a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Page 96 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries, the laws to be adopted or made, shall have force in all parts of the district, and for the execution of process, criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof; and he shall proceed from time to time, as circumstances may require, to lay out the parts of the district in which the Indian titles shall have been extinguished, into counties and townships, subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature.
Page 14 - Are they here The dead of other days? - and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer.
Page 94 - An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorized by law.
Page 15 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone ; All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones, The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods, The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay...
Page 120 - Dix's famous order — u if any man hauls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 33 - ... the sole liberty of hunting and fishing on land not planted or improved by the said Jonathan, his heirs and assigns ; to which we have affixed our respective seals, at the great cave, May the first, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven.
Page 242 - LOUis ROBERT and ANDRE GODFREY. Judge of Probate. — HENRY A. LAMBERT. THE FIRST "BANK" IN SAINT PAUL. The Pioneer, of November 15, aired up quite a neat swindle, as follows : " Some time in September last, there came to Saint Paul a burlylooking, middle-aged man, of medium stature, dressed in a drab suit, and wearing a drab-colored fur hat, who called himself ISAAC YOUNG. and represented that he had formerly been a saddler in Ohio. This man closeted himself with a Mr. SAWYER, who was then in Saint...
Page 163 - I went to the place for the purpose of making inquiries in reference to the prospect of a school. I visited seven families in which there were twenty-three children of proper age to attend school, and' was told of five more in which were thirteen more that it is supposed might attend, making thirty-six in twelve families. I suppose more than half of the parents of these children are unable to read themselves, and care but little about having their children taught.