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[198] See _Notes on Canada and the North-West States of America_ in _Blackwood's Magazine_, Vol. LXXVIII, p. 323, September, 1855. These articles by Laurence Oliphant were later published in book form under the title of _Minnesota and the Far West_.

[199] This is the height given in Nicollet's _Report intended to illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River_, p. 69.

[200] Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, p. 103.

[201] This sketch of the fort is obtained from the map of Fort Snelling in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 431; and from a _Report of the capacity and condition of the barracks, quarters, hospital, storehouses, &c., at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, made to the Quartermaster General_. This report was made on August 23, 1856. It is printed in _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, pp. 407-409.

[202] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. IV, p. 122.

[203] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, p. 295.

[204] A statement of the equipment at the various posts during the fourth quarter of 1834 is printed in the _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. V, p. 853-900.

[205] Taliaferro to Lucas, September 30, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_, 1839, No. 492.

[206] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153.

[207] Taliaferro to William Clark, August 17, 1830.--_Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 139.

[208] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 7, 1831.

[209] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 8, 1831.

[210] Taliaferro to Lucas, September 30, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_, 1839, No. 492; _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, p. 19.

[211] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153.

[212] _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 207.

[213] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153. In the Sibley House at Mendota is hung an oil painting of Fort Snelling made by Sergeant Thomas who was stationed at Fort Snelling sometime between 1836 and 1842. This painting, which was made from the hill behind Sibley House, shows the location of these various buildings.

[214] For Baker's house see _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 19, 33, 34; also _Reports of Committees_, 1st session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 400.

[215] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, pp. 295, 296. Charles Joseph Latrobe visited the post in the fall of 1833.

[216] These buildings are shown in the picture mentioned in note 213, above.

[217] There is a description of Mendota given in Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, pp. 101, 102.

[218] Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, p. 117; Bishop's _Floral Home; or, First Years of Minnesota_, pp. 156, 157.

[219] These figures are taken from Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, p. 309.

[220] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, p. 302.

[221] _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol. VII, Document No. 9, pp. 37, 38; _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Report No. 351, p. 148.

[222] Upham's _The Women and Children of Fort St. Anthony, later named Fort Snelling_ in _The Magazine of History_, Vol. XXI, p. 37.

[223] See below, the chapter entitled _Soldiers of the Cross_.

[224] This enumeration of the Indian villages is from Pond's _The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 320-330. The spelling of the names follows that used by Pond, although they were all written in many ways. The population figures are from Taliaferro's report in 1834, found in _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 203.

[225] See the description of an Indian village in Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, pp. 288, 289; also, Keating's _Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River_, Vol. I, pp. 342, 343.