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JUL 20 1901
PEABODY MUSEL.
CONTENTS.
Page.
HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION IN MINNESOTA, by GEN. JAMES H.
BAKER
1-34
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Aboriginal transportation and traffic....
2
Period of French exploration.
Later traffic of the Minnesota valley.
Lake Superior and the fur trade.
Transportation by canals.....
Steamboating on the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers..
Our wagon roads and stage lines...
4
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6
7
14
16
18
33
HOW WE WON THE SAN JUAN ARCHIPELAGO, by GEN. EDWIN C.
MASON
35-54
THE OJIBWAYS IN MINNESOTA, by REV. JOSEPH A. GILFILLAN... 55-128
Their geographic distribution.
Natural politeness and patience.
The Ojibways of Cass and Leech lakes....
Heartiness in eating, and fish the staple food... .
Ojibway gambling; feasts and councils; his ideal.
Industry of the women; their servile position...
Marriage, and abandoning wife and children.
Babyhood and childhood....
Mechanical ingenuity and skill..
Intellectual traits; comparison with the white race.
Murder rare, except when due to intoxication....
The Christian Ojibway...
74
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93
94
Habits in work; logging, river driving, gardening.
Salutations-Asiatic origin
107
108
Visiting; deliberateness in thinking and speaking..
Ojibway girls and women in housework.
SOTA, by the Right Reverend HENRY B. WHIPPLE, D. D.,
LL. D., Bishop of Minnesota....
.129-142
BIOGRAPHIC NOTES OF OLD SETTLERS, by HON. HENRY L. Moss..143-162
Henry Jackson..
Jacob W. Bass.
William H. Forbes.
144
146
147
EARLY TRADE AND TRADERS IN ST. PAUL, by CHARLES D.
ELFELT
..163-166
THE EARLY POLITICAL HISTORY OF MINNESOTA, by HON.
CHARLES D. GILFILLAN....
167-180
BEGINNINGS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN MINNESOTA, and the
EARLY MISSIONS OF PARK PLACE, ST. PAUL, by BISHOP M. N.
GILBERT
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...181-196
HENNEPIN AS DISCOVERER AND AUTHOR, by SAMUEL M. DAVIS...223-240
Earlier discovery to the time of La Salle.....
Hennepin's captivity and discoveries in Minnesota.
The life and character of Hennepin....
HISTORY OF DULUTH, AND OF ST. LOUIS COUNTY, TO THE YEAR
223
225
234
Road from the St. Croix valley to Lake Superior.
245
The first boom, followed by depression in 1857....
First saw and grist mills.....
260
262
Volunteers from St. Louis county in the civil war.
271
Beginnings in this county and the city of Duluth.
277
THE EARLY SETTLEMENT AND HISTORY OF REDWOOD COUNTY, by
HON. ORLANDO B. TURRELL.
.279-290
HISTORY OF LUMBERING IN THE ST. CROIX VALLEY, WITH BIO-