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Fifty Years In The Northwest / With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

William H. C. Folsom

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  • Book language: English
  • 852 pages

A historical memoir of pioneer life in the Upper Midwest, drawn from William H. C. Folsom's fifty years of notes and recollections. It describes the early settlement of Wisconsin and Minnesota, from Fort Crawford and Prairie du Chien onward, and the transformation of wilderness into farms, towns, and commerce. Valuable as a firsthand record of frontier experience and regional development.

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FIFTY YEARS IN THE NORTHWEST.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX
CONTAINING
REMINISCENCES, INCIDENTS AND NOTES.
BY W. H. C. FOLSOM.
EDITED BY E. E. EDWARDS.
PUBLISHED BY
PIONEER PRESS COMPANY.
1888.
TO THE OLD SETTLERS
OF
WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA,
WHO, AS PIONEERS, AMIDST PRIVATIONS AND TOIL NOT KNOWN TO
THOSE OF
LATER GENERATION, LAID HERE THE FOUNDATIONS OF TWO GREAT
STATES, AND HAVE LIVED TO SEE THE RESULT OF THEIR
ARDUOUS LABORS IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE
WILDERNESS—DURING FIFTY YEARS—INTO A
FRUITFUL COUNTRY, IN THE BUILDING
OF GREAT CITIES, IN THE
ESTABLISHING OF ARTS
AND MANUFACTURES,
IN THE
CREATION OF COMMERCE
AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED

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Contents

  1. FIFTY YEARS IN THE NORTHWEST.
  2. WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND APPENDIX CONTAINING REMINISCENCES, INCIDENTS AND NOTES.
  3. EDITED BY E. E. EDWARDS.
  4. PREFACE.
  5. INTRODUCTION.
  6. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  7. CONTENTS.
  8. ERRATA.
  9. CHAPTER I.
  10. CHAPTER II.
  11. CHAPTER III.
  12. CHAPTER IV.
  13. CHAPTER V.
  14. CHAPTER VI.
  15. CHAPTER VII.
  16. CHAPTER VIII.
  17. CHAPTER IX.
  18. CHAPTER X.
  19. CHAPTER XI.
  20. CHAPTER XII.
  21. CHAPTER XIII.
  22. CHAPTER XIV.
  23. CHAPTER XV.
  24. CHAPTER XVI.
  25. CHAPTER XVII.
  26. CHAPTER XVIII.
  27. CHAPTER XIX.
  28. CHAPTER XX.
  29. CHAPTER XXI.
  30. CHAPTER XXII.

and 4 more chapters

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