Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858

CHAPTER I

[1] Carver's _Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America_, pp. vii, viii.

[2] To the region lying on the upper waters of three great river systems--the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, and the Red River of the North--the writer has applied the name "Upper Northwest" to distinguish it from the "Old Northwest" and the "Pacific North...