The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, by Charles E. Flandrau This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier Author: Charles E. Flandrau Release Date: June 2, 2008 [EBook #25677] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF MINNESOTA *** Produced by K Nordquist, Sigal Alon, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The History of Minnesota 2 Tales of the Frontier 269 THE HISTORY OF MINNESOTA AND TALES OF THE FRONTIER Chas E Flandrau The History of Minnesota AND Tales of the Frontier. BY JUDGE CHARLES E. FLANDRAU PUBLISHED BY E. W. PORTER, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. 1900. Dedication. To the Old Settlers of Minnesota, who so wisely laid the foundation of our state upon the broad and enduring basis of freedom and toleration, and who have so gallantly defended and maintained it, this history is most gratefully and affectionately dedicated by the author. Charles E. Flandrau. AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION. The original design of this history was, that it should accompany and form part of a book called the "Encyclopedia of Biography of Minnesota.