The True Source of the Mississippi
Author | : Pearce Giles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Elk Lake (Clearwater County, Minn.) |
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Author | : Pearce Giles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Elk Lake (Clearwater County, Minn.) |
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Author | : Willard W. Glazier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : James Heaton Baker |
Publisher | : St. Paul, Minn. : Brown, Treacy |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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Author | : Jacob Vradenberg Brower |
Publisher | : St. Paul, Minn. : [Pioneer Press] |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Missouri River |
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Author | : Willard W. Glazier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft |
Publisher | : LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, AND CO. |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
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Discovery of the sources of the Mississippi River : Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River in 1820. Discovery of the sources of the Mississippi River : Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River in 1820. Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832 The following pages embrace the substance of the narratives of two distinct expeditions for the discovery of the sources of the Mississippi River, under the authority of the United States. By connecting the incidents of discovery, and of the facts brought to light during a period of twelve years, unity is preserved in the prosecution of an object of considerable importance in the progress of our geography and natural history, at least, from the new impulse which they received after the treaty of Ghent. Geographers deem that branch of a river as its true source which originates at the remotest distance from its mouth, and, agreeably to this definition, the combined narratives, to which attention is now called, show this celebrated stream to arise in Itasca Lake, the source of the Itasca River. Owing to the time which has intervened since these expeditions were undertaken, a mere revision of the prior narrations, in the journal form, was deemed inexpedient. A concise summary has, therefore, been made, preserving whatever information it was thought important to be known or remembered, and omitting all matters not partaking of permanent interest.
Author | : Willard W. Glazier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Canoes and canoeing |
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Author | : Jacob Vradenberg Brower |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Mississippi River |
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This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined with his extensive hydrographic and topographic surveys. Brower summarizes the major European and white American exploratory trips to the area. Based on a scientific survey of the Itasca Basin that he made under the authority of the Minnesota Historical Society, Brower concludes that the true source of the Mississippi is neither Itasca Lake nor Elk Lake, nor even the stream discovered by Jean N. Nicolet (1836) called "Nicolet's Infant Mississippi River," but the "Greater Ultimate Reservoir" which receives its water supply from aerial precipitation and stores it in various component lakes and springs. Some of these lakes include Hernando de Soto, the Triplets, Whipple, Morrison, and Floating Moss; the streams that proceed from them include the beginnings of the Nicolet as well as the Mississippi. From Nicolet's middle lake the main river proceeds "in an unbroken channel" to the Gulf. After lobbying successfully to have this headwater region preserved as Itasca State Park (1891), Brower served as its first commissioner. The appendix includes an historical account of how the Mississippi and the Lake of the Woods came to form part of the northwestern boundary of the United States. Its author was Albert James Hill (1823-1895), who was also instrumental in the creation of Brower's report.
Author | : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft |
Publisher | : New-York : Harper & Bros. |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
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 expeditionary party of thirty, including Ozawindib (an Ojibway guide and interpreter), an army officer, a surgeon, a geologist, and interpreter, and a missionary. They set out with instructions from Secretary of War Lewis Cass to effect a permanent peace among the region's Native Americans, persuade them to be vaccinated against smallpox, acquire demographic and scientific information, and establish definitively the origin of the Mississippi. Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi contains anecdotes and observations about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Chippewa [Ojibway] as well as the Sioux [Dakota], the Fox [Mesquakie], the Sauk, the Menominee, the Mandans, and various other Native American groups. The narrative proceeds chronologically along the route the expedition followed, with detailed descriptions of geographical features. This volume also includes a short account of a trip along the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) River, and has an appendix containing statistical and linguistic data, a list of shells collected by Schoolcraft in the West and Northwestern territories, official reports, a speech by six Chippewa chiefs about the war delivered at Michilimackinac in July 1833, and a discussion of the Upper Mississippi's lead mining country.
Author | : Eddy Harris |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1998-09-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780805059038 |
The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.