The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7J.P. Jewett, 1857 - 151 lappuses |
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acres act granting act to incorporate Anthony band banks beautiful Belle Plain Big Sioux Blue Earth River bluffs Brownsville centre CHAPTER Chatfield county-seat Croix Crow River Crow Wing distance east Eastern emigration erected extensive Faribault fertile forest Fort Ridgely Fort Ripley Fort Snelling Glencoe groves growth Henderson hundred immigrant improve Indian Iowa Lake land district land office located logs lumber business maintain a ferry Mankato Mendota miles above St million feet Minneapolis Minnesota River Minnetouka Mississippi River mouth northwest pass Paul Peter pine pineries Point Douglas population prairie Railroad Red Wing rock Root River Sauk Rapids saw-mill settled settlement settlers seven miles Shakopee shore side Sioux City situated six miles Snelling soil South Bend spring Stillwater stream subject to pre-emption Sueur surrounded Taylor's Falls Territorial road thousand timber tion town township trade twelve miles twenty-five miles upper Mississippi valley village water power Western Winona
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12. lappuse - Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer. A race, that long has passed away, Built them; - a disciplined and populous race Heaped, with long toil, the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
12. lappuse - Are they here The dead of other days? - and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life And burn with passion? Let the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest crowded with old oaks, Answer.
34. lappuse - Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves.
12. lappuse - When haply by their stalls the bison lowed, And bowed his maned shoulder to the yoke. All day this desert murmured with their toils, Till twilight blushed, and lovers walked and wooed In a forgotten language, and old tunes, From instruments of unremembered form, Gave the soft winds a voice. The red man came The roaming hunter tribes...
52. lappuse - The River St. Pierre . . . flows through a most delightful country, abounding with all the necessaries of life, that grow spontaneously; and with a little cultivation it might be made to produce even the luxuries of life. Wild rice grows here in great abundance; and every part is filled with trees bending under their loads of fruits, such as plums, grapes, and apples; the meadows are covered with hops, and many sorts of vegetables; whilst the ground is stored with useful roots, with angelica, spikenard,...
138. lappuse - The proceeds of all lands that have been, or may hereafter be, granted by the United States to the State for the support of a university, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called "The University Fund...
13. lappuse - The solitude of centuries untold Has settled where they dwelt. The prairie-wolf Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities.
13. lappuse - ... TERRITORY, GENERAL FEATURES, ETC. THE territory of Minnesota, as organized by the act of Congress of March 3, 1849, is an extensive region, being about four times as large as the state of Ohio, and is six hundred and seventy-five miles in extent from its southeastern to its northwestern border. It extends from the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers and the western extremity of Lake Superior on the east, to the Missouri and White-Earth rivers on the west, a distance of over four hundred miles ;...
128. lappuse - ... not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
10. lappuse - State-rooms were entirely out of the question, and bunks upon the floor or seats at the table were at a premium. Standing at the lower end of the cabin, and gazing upon the hundreds of persons whose beds covered almost every foot of the cabin floor, I intuitively exclaimed, 'This is going West.' I mused upon the various situations and climates and nations these people had left; the misfortunes that had befallen some, and the fortunes that had fallen to others, alike impelling them to seek the 'land...