INDEX

Previous
William Watts Folwell
ml@files@47725@47725-h@47725-h-21.htm.html#Page_347" class="pginternal">347;
“wide open” tax power, 347;
woman suffrage in school and library matters, 347;
majority of whole vote to ratify amendment, 347;
creating highway commission, 348;
home rule charters, 348;
investment of school fund, 348.
Constitutional convention, election for, 135;
delegates, 135;
result of election, 137;
the split, 137;
efforts to unite the two bodies, 139;
conferees appointed, 139;
report of conferees, 140.
Convocation of 1641, 15;
1825, 61.
County government, change in, 175.
Crooks, William, appointed colonel of Sixth Minnesota, 189.
Cullen, Major, Sioux agent, mentioned, 148.
Dairy industry, development of, 356.
Dakota Indians, see Sioux Indians.
Daumont, see St. Lusson, 15.
Davis, Cushman K., antecedents of, 294;
secures governorship, 295;
balks Senator Ramsey of reËlection, 296;
fails to secure nomination for U. S. senator, 297;
address at celebration of two hundredth anniversary of discovery of falls of St. Anthony, 325;
recommends arbitration of railroad bonds, 329;
elected U. S. senator (1887), 341;
reËlected U.S. senator, 341;
Spanish treaty commissioner (1898), 341;
address at laying corner-stone of new capitol, 343;
death, 341.
Davis, Jefferson, mentioned, 123.
Dead Buffalo Lake, battle of, 235.
Death penalty, changes in, 314.
Declarants for naturalization deprived of suffrage, 347.
Delano, Columbus, investigates Chippeway half-breed scrip, 115.
Detroit occupied by British, 32.
Dodd, Capt., killed in battle of New Ulm, 209.
Dodge, Henry, mentioned, 87.
Donnelly, Ignatius, antecedents, 170;
elected lieutenant-governor, 170;
reËlected lieutenant-governor, 177;
elected to Congress (1862), 248;
aspires to U. S. senatorship, 262;
attack on Representative E. B. Washburne, 262;
fails to receive nomination for U. S. senator, 264;
withdraws from senatorial contest, 297359;
ranges, discovery and location, 47;
expedition, 47;
treaty with the Sioux, 48;
at upper sources of Mississippi, 50;
asserts dominion of United States, 51.
Pillager band of Chippeways, outbreak of, 351;
suffer injustice, 352.
Pillsbury, C. A., heads relief committee, 350.
Pillsbury, John S., becomes regent of university, 259;
characteristics, 304;
governor for three terms, 304;
advises farmers how to fight “hoppers,” 305;
visits devastated counties, 305;
appoints day of fasting and prayer for “hoppers,” 306;
praises operation of public examiner law, 314;
urges payment of “dishonored bonds,” 330;
regent for life, 332;
death, 332.
Pine on the St. Croix, 79.
Pine forests, exhaustion of, 357.
Pine land operations, see Chippeway half-breed scrip, Sioux half-breed scrip.
Plympton, Major, mentioned, 128.
Pokegama mission broken up, 65.
Pond brothers, first missionaries to Sioux, 65;
build on Lake Calhoun, 65;
invent the Pond alphabet, 66.
Pope, General John, takes command of department of the northwest, 222;
protests against the appointment of H. M. Rice as brigadier-general, 223;
proposes to exterminate the Sioux, 226.
Population of Minnesota, in 1849, 90;
increase of, in Gorman’s administration, 120;
in 1860, 175;
in 1865, 252;
in 1870, 269;
in 1875 and 1880, 307;
in 1880 and 1885, 333;
in 1905, 364;
1850 to 1905, 365;
of the Twin Cities, 1905, 364.
Porter, Edward A., conceives school of agriculture, 354.
Prairie du Chien supply station, 32;
garrisoned, 55.
Presbyterian church at Fort Snelling, 67.
Prescott, Philander, teaches in agricultural school at Lake Calhoun (1839), 67.
Primary elections, 342.
Prohibitory liquor law, 91.
Public examiner, office created (1878), 314.
Public lands, grants of, 135;
grants for railroads, 143.
Public Library Commission, degree of LL. D., 339;
death, 339.
Sioux and Chippeways exchange murders, 62.
Sioux campaign of 1864, 236;
expedition of 1863, 234.
Sioux half-breed scrip, story of, 117;
placed on iron ore properties, 119.
Sioux Indians:
first heard of, 7;
seen by Allouez, 14;
early habitat, 44;
immigration of, 44;
characteristics, 45;
tribes and numbers of, 94;
move to reserves (1853), 120, 167;
uneasy on reserves, 167;
become farmers, 168;
effect of concentration, 191;
character of reservations, 192;
prey of whiskey-sellers, 192;
disturbances at upper agency, 194;
delay of payments, 195;
soldiers’ lodge, 196;
late arrival of gold, 196;
murders at Acton, 197;
council at upper agency, 201;
depopulation, 203;
losses in outbreak, 211;
removal from Minnesota, 232.
Sioux outbreak, 190.
Sioux prisoners, trial of, by military commission, 227;
disposition of principal body of, 228, 232;
maltreated by whites, 228;
protests against leniency, 229;
Bishop Whipple’s letter to President, 230;
President Lincoln’s scrutiny, 230;
executions, 231;
mistakes in identification, 231;
become Christians, 231, 232;
disposition of convicts not executed, 232.
Sioux reservations:
granted in treaties of 1851, 96;
annulled by Senate, 1852, 98;
ratified by Indians, 1853, 98;
nevertheless occupied, 167;
permitted by Congress to be held, 167;
reduction, 169, 192;
forfeited, 232.
Sioux treaties:
abortive treaty of 1849, 92;
treaties of 1851, 93;
of 1858, Biographies of Men famous in the Political History of the United States. Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Each volume, with portrait, 16mo, gilt top, $1.25. The set, 31 volumes, $38.75; half morocco, $85.25.

Separately they are interesting and entertaining biographies of our most eminent public men; as a series they are especially remarkable as constituting a history of American politics and policies more complete and more useful for instruction and reference than any that I am aware of.—Hon. John W. Griggs, Ex-United States Attorney-General.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John T. Morse, Jr.
SAMUEL ADAMS. By James K. Hosmer.
PATRICK HENRY. By Moses Coit Tyler.
GEORGE WASHINGTON. By Henry Cabot Lodge. 2 volumes.
JOHN ADAMS. By John T. Morse, Jr.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON. By Henry Cabot Lodge.
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. By Theodore Roosevelt.
JOHN JAY. By George Pellew.
JOHN MARSHALL. By Allan B. Magruder.
THOMAS JEFFERSON. By John T. Morse, Jr.
JAMES MADISON. By Sidney Howard Gay.
ALBERT GALLATIN. By John Austin Stevens.
JAMES MONROE. By D. C. Gilman.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. By John T. Morse, Jr.
JOHN RANDOLPH. By Henry Adams.
ANDREW JACKSON. By W. G. Sumner.
MARTIN VAN BUREN. By Edward W. Shepard.
HENRY CLAY. By Carl Schurz. 2 volumes.
DANIEL WEBSTER. By Henry Cabot Lodge.
JOHN C. CALHOUN. By Dr. H. Von Holst.
THOMAS H. BENTON. By Theodore Roosevelt.
LEWIS CASS. By Andrew C. McLaughlin.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By John T. Morse, Jr. 2 volumes.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD. By Thornton K. Lothrop.
SALMON P. CHASE. By Albert Bushnell Hart.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. By C. F. Adams, Jr.
CHARLES SUMNER. By Moorfield Storey.
THADDEUS STEVENS. By Samuel W. McCall.
SECOND SERIES

Biographies of men particularly influential in the recent Political History of the Nation. Each volume, with Portrait, 12mo, $1.25 net; postage, 12 cents.

This second series is intended to supplement the original list of American Statesmen by the addition of the names of men who have helped to make the history of the United States since the Civil War.

JAMES G. BLAINE. By Edward Stanwood.
JOHN SHERMAN. By Theodore E. Burton.
WILLIAM McKINLEY. By T. C. Dawson.
ULYSSES S. GRANT. By Samuel W. McCall. In preparation
Other interesting additions to the list to be made in the future.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
AMERICAN MEN OF
LETTERS

Biographies of our most eminent American Authors, written by men who are themselves prominent in the field of letters. Each volume, with portrait, 16mo, gilt top.

The writers of these biographies are themselves Americans, generally familiar with the surroundings in which their subjects lived and the conditions under which their work was done. Hence the volumes are peculiar for the rare combination of critical judgment with sympathetic understanding. Collectively, the series offers a biographical history of American Literature.

The following, each, $1.25
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. By John Bigelow.
J. FENIMORE COOPER. By T. R. Lounsbury.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. By Edward Cary.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By John Bach McMaster.
WASHINGTON IRVING. By Charles Dudley Warner.
MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI. By T. W. Higginson.
EDGAR ALLAN POE. By George E. Woodberry.
GEORGE RIPLEY. By O. B. Frothingham.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS. By William P. Trent.
BAYARD TAYLOR. By Albert H. Smyth.
HENRY D. THOREAU. By Frank B. Sanborn.
NOAH WEBSTER. By Horace E. Scudder.
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS. By Henry A. Beers.
The following, each, $1.10, net; postage, 10 cents
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. By George E. Woodberry.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. By T. W. Higginson.
FRANCIS PARKMAN. By H. D. Sedgwick.
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT. By Rollo Ogden.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. By Geo. R. Carpenter.
The set, 19 volumes, $23.00; half polished morocco, $50.50.
In preparation
BRET HARTE. By Henry C. Merwin.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. By S. M. Crothers.
Other titles to be added.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
AMERICAN
COMMONWEALTHS

Volumes devoted to such States of the Union as have a striking political, social, or economic history. Each volume, with Map and Index, 16mo; gilt top, $1.25, net; postage 12 cents. The set, 19 vols., $23.75; half polished morocco, $52.25.

The books which form this series are scholarly and readable individually; collectively, the series, when completed, will present a history of the nation, setting forth in lucid and vigorous style the varieties of government and of social life to be found in the various commonwealths included in the federal union.

CALIFORNIA. By Josiah Royce.
CONNECTICUT. By Alexander Johnston. (Revised Ed.)
INDIANA. By J. P. Dunn, Jr. (Revised Edition.)
KANSAS. By Leverett W. Spring. (Revised Edition.)
KENTUCKY. By Nathaniel Southgate Shaler.
LOUISIANA. By Albert Phelps.
MARYLAND. By William Hand Browne. (Revised Ed.)
MICHIGAN. By Thomas M. Cooley. (Revised Edition.)
MINNESOTA. By Wm. W. Folwell.
MISSOURI. By Lucien Carr.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. By Frank B. Sanborn.
NEW YORK. By Ellis H. Roberts. 2 vols. (Revised Ed.)
OHIO. By Rufus King. (Revised Edition.)
RHODE ISLAND. By Irving B. Richman.
TEXAS. By George P. Garrison.
VERMONT. By Rowland E. Robinson.
VIRGINIA. By John Esten Cooke. (Revised Edition.)
WISCONSIN. By Reuben Gold Thwaites.
In preparation
GEORGIA. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
ILLINOIS. By John H. Finley.
IOWA. By Albert Shaw.
MASSACHUSETTS. By Edward Channing.
NEW JERSEY. By Austin Scott.
OREGON. By F. H. Hodder.
PENNSYLVANIA. By Talcott Williams.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Transcriber’s note:

All instances of ‘Ramsay’ have been changed to ‘Ramsey.’

All instances of ‘per cent’ have been changed to ‘per cent.’

All instances of ‘re-election’ have been changed to ‘reËlection.’

All instances of ‘pre-emption’ have been changed to ‘preËmption.’

All index entries have been regularised.

Page 75, changed ‘noteworty’ to ‘noteworthy,’ “It is noteworthy that Beltrami”

Page 221, full stop added, “the imagination of the reader.”

Page 225, ‘Emmegabowgh’ changed to ‘Emmegabowh,’ “the missionary Emmegabowh”

Page 270, ‘promotors’ changed to ‘promoters,’ “enthusiastic promoters in many lines.”

Page 354, ‘but’ moved, “not to learn agriculture but to practice it.”

Page 364, comma added, “The highest land, a granite peak”

Index, entry for ‘Brackett’s Cavalry Battalion’ changed from page 1862 to page 186.

Index, entry for ‘Hoag’ changed from ‘Min-ne-ha-po-lis’ to ‘Min-ne-ha-polis,’ “Hoag, Charles, proposes the name Min-ne-ha-polis, 131.”

Index, entry for ‘Jogues’ moved to before entry for Johnson.

Index, entry for ‘Jogues’ changed from page 9 to page 6.

Index, entry for ‘St. Michel’ changed to ‘St. Michael,’ “St. Michael the Archangel, mission of, 27.”

Index, full stop added, “Welch, Major A. E.”





<

Top of Page
Top of Page