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[131] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, July 19, 1849.
[132] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, September 6, 1849, July 11, November 21, 1850.
[133] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. X, Pt. I, pp. 193, 199.
[134] Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp.
588-593.
[135] Holcombe's _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. II, pp. 327, 328; _Annals of Iowa_ (First Series), Vol. VII, p. 290; _Post Returns_, March, April, 1853, in the archives of the War Department, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.
[136] For Colonel Smith's expedition see above, Note 109. For the building of Fort Abercrombie see the _Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota_, Vol. II, Pt. II, p. 7.
[137] _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, pp. 10-12.
[138] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2595.
[139] For the sale of Fort Snelling see Dr. Folwell's paper on _The Sale of Fort Snelling_, 1857, in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol.
XV, pp. 393-410.
[140] The report of the committee may be found in _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351.
[141] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2614.
[142] _Congressional Globe_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Pt. III, p.
2618.
[143] Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, p. 431.
[144] For papers relating to the readjustment see _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Doc.u.ment No. 9.
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[145] Quoted in Williams's _A History of the City of Saint Paul_, pp.
58, 59.
[146] In the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, pp. 430, 431, there is a list of the commanding officers from September, 1819 to May, 1858.
[147] For the life of Henry Leavenworth see the _Kansas Historical Collections_, Vol. VII, pp. 577, 578, Vol. IX, p. 569, Vol. XI, p. xxi; Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900_, p. 428; Chittenden's _The History of the American Fur Trade of the Far West_, Vol. II, pp. 630-632; Leavenworth's _A Genealogy of the Leavenworth Family in the United States_, pp. 150-154.
[148] _American State Papers, Indian Affairs_, Vol. I, p. 777.
[149] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, pp. 310-323, contains a sketch of the activities of Captain Snelling during the war.
[150] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, pp. 313, 314.
[151] Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 316.
[152] From the reminiscences of Mrs. Ann Adams in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 96, 97. Mrs. Adams, as a child, lived several years in the Snelling household.
[153] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900_, p. 599; Ellet's _Pioneer Women of the West_, p. 334.
[154] From a ma.n.u.script ent.i.tled "Remarks on General Wm. Hull's Memoirs of the Campaign of the Northwestern Army, 1812", by Josiah Snelling.--_Draper Collection_, 8 U. 114, pp. 42, 43.
[155] _The Works of Daniel Webster_, Vol. V, p. 410.
[156] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, pp. 440, 441.
[157] See the sketch of Captain Scott in Van Cleve's _"Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota_, pp. 28, 29.
[158] _Senate Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Doc.u.ment No. 1, p. 367.
[159] There is a sketch of Martin Scott in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 180-187, from which this story is taken.
[160] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900_, p. 577.
[161] _Niles' Register_, Vol. 73, p. 130.
[162] The frontispiece of Mrs. Eastman's _Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling_ was painted by Captain Eastman.
[163] Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. II, p. 292.
[164] In his notes to _Hiawatha_ Longfellow quotes from the introduction of Mrs. Eastman's book, p. ii.--_Longfellow's Complete Poetical Works_ (Cambridge Edition), p. 666.
[165] Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. II, p. 292.
[166] Powell's _List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900_, p. 449; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p.
441.
[167] _The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. VIII, pp.
89, 90.
[168] Rhodes's _History of the United States_, Vol. IV, p. 328.
[169] _The American Annual Cyclopaedia_, 1863, p. 816.
[170] Bancroft's _History of Oregon_, Vol. II, pp. 611, 612. For the career of General Canby see Appletons' _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, Vol. I, pp. 517, 518.
[171] This incident is taken from Folsom's _Fifty Years in the Northwest_, pp. 755, 756. Mr. Folsom says he took it "from a St. Paul paper of 1887".
[172] For the Dred Scott case see McMaster's _A History of the People of the United States_, Vol. VIII, pp. 278, 279.
[173] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. I, p. 50.
[174] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. IV, p. 564.
