CHAPTER IV

Quoted in Williams's A History of the City of Saint Paul, pp. 58, 59.

In the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, pp. 430, 431, there is a list of the commanding officers from September, 1819 to May, 1858.

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.

American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 777.

Ellet's Pioneer Women of the West, pp. 310-323, contains a sketch of the activities of Captain Snelling during the war.

Ellet's Pioneer Women of the West, pp. 313, 314.

Ellet's Pioneer Women of the West, p. 316.

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.

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.

From a manuscript entitled "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.

The Works of Daniel Webster, Vol. V, p. 410.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VIII, pp. 440, 441.

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.

Senate Documents, 1st Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 367.

There is a sketch of Martin Scott in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. III, pp. 180-187, from which this story is taken.

Powell's List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900, p. 577.

Niles' Register, Vol. 73, p. 130.

The frontispiece of Mrs. Eastman's Dahcotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling was painted by Captain Eastman.

Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, p. 292.

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.

Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, p. 292.

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.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. VIII, pp. 89, 90.

Rhodes's History of the United States, Vol. IV, p. 328.

The American Annual Cyclopaedia, 1863, p. 816.

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.

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".

For the Dred Scott case see McMaster's A History of the People of the United States, Vol. VIII, pp. 278, 279.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 50.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, p. 564.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IV, pp. 729-739.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 395.

Quoted from the complaint of the agent, Nathaniel McLean, September 25, 1850, in Senate Documents, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 106.

Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 249.

Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, pp. 253, 254.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 353.

Taliaferro to Crawford, July 15, 1839.--Indian Office Files, 1839, No. 512.

These papers are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. The dates covered in these diaries are from December, 1830, to June, 1831; May 25 to September 21, 1833; May 23 to August 28, 1834.

These letters are in the possession of the Minnesota Historical Society. In Volume I of these letters is the following notice: "These 326 letters, are part of the great mass of correspondence received by Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro, Indian Agent at Fort Snelling, 1819-1840. They constitute but a small part of his accumulations in twenty years. The rest were burned in his house at Bedford, Pa., in 18__. It was a great loss to us, as, had they been spared, we would have received all of them. But even these 326 contain a large amount of valuable material for Minnesota history. Even as autographs they are valuable, [see autobiography of Taliaferro, Vol. 6, Coll.] These letters were given by Maj. T. in March, 1868. Arranged, bound and indexed (by J. F. W.) 1891."

Photostatic copies of many of these letters were taken and are to be found in the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where they were consulted.

These letter books are now in the possession of the Kansas State Historical Society at Topeka, where they were consulted. The only volume containing letters from Major Taliaferro is referred to as the William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832.

Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 253.

Powell's List of Officers of the Army of the United States, from 1779 to 1900, p. 620. In the Taliaferro Letters are many letters from William Clark and Elbert Herring in which they address Mr. Taliaferro as "major".

Taliaferro Letters, Vol. I, No. 11. A note on this letter gives these dates.

Nowhere is the date of his arrival at Fort Snelling given. In his autobiography he writes of his journey: "Jean Baptiste Faribault and family, had gone through by land, in charge of Colonel Leavenworth's horses and cows".--Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 198. It was in the spring of 1820 that Faribault performed this service.--Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 103.

Clark to the Secretary of War, August 20, 1832.--Indian Office Files, 1832, No. 285. For his resignation see Indian Office Files, 1824, No. 39.

Taliaferro's Diary, March 24, 1831.

Taliaferro to Crawford, December 12, 1839.--Indian Office Files, 1839, No. 516.

Neill's The History of Minnesota (Fourth Edition), pp. 337-339.

In the report for 1850 the agency at St. Peter's is designated a "Sub-Agency".--Senate Documents, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 103.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. XII, pp. 339, 340.

Indian Office Files, 1834, No. 213, 1827, No. 54, 1843, No. 222.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. XII, p. 341.