The Seat of Empire

PAGE Cutting loose from Care.--Map of the Northwest.--Leaving Chicago.--Fourth of July.--At La Crosse.--Dance on a Steamboat.--Up the Mississippi.--The Boundaries of Minnesota.-...

St. Cloud.--Our Party.--First Night in Camp.--A Midnight Thunder-Storm.--Sunday in Camp.--Up the Sauk Valley.-- White Bear Lake.--Catching a Turtle.--Lightning Lake.-- Second Sa...

Down the Valley of the Red River.--Breckenridge.--Fort Abercrombie.--Climate.--Winters at Winnipeg.--Burlington. --The Emigrant.--Father Genin.--Mackenzie.--Harman.--Sir John Ri...

Winnipeggers.--Ride over the Prairie.--Dakota City.-- Georgetown.--Hudson Bay Company Teams.--Parting with our Friends.--The 43d Parallel.--Dakota.--Wyoming.-- Montana.--Idaho.-...

Bottineau.--The Leaf Hills.--A Ride over the Plain.--The Park Region.--Settlers.--How they kept the Fourth of July.--Chippewa Indians.--Rush Lake.--A Serenade on the Prairie.--G...

Noon Lunch.--Toasting Pork.--A Montana Dutchman.--Emigrant Trains.--Camping at Night--Wheat of Minnesota.--The State in 1849.--A Word to Young Men.--Boys once more.--Our Last Ca...

Down-Easters.--The Eden of Lumbermen.--Country East of the Mississippi.--The Climate of the Forest Region.--White Bear Lake.--Travellers from Duluth.--A Maine Farmer in Minnesot...

Duluth.--Minnesota Point.--The Projected Breakwater.-- Comparison with the Suez Canal.--The Town.--Period of Navigation.--The Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad. --Transport...

The Apostle Islands.--Bayfield.--The Harbor.--Breakfast with Captain Vaughn.--Ashland.--Big Trout.--Ontonagon.-- Approach to Marquette.--The Harbor.--The Town.--Discovery of Iro...

A Talk about the Northwest.--Mr. Blotter.--He wants a Farm.--Government Lands.--Homestead Law of Minnesota.-- Exemption Laws.--The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.-- Liberal Terms...

How Communities grow.--Humboldt.--What I saw in 1846.-- The Pacific Coast.--River-Systems.--Lewis and Clark.-- Jeff Davis.--Charter of the Company.--The Projectors.-- The Line.-...

Last summer I cut loose from all care, and enjoyed a few weeks of freedom and recreation with a party of gentlemen on the frontier between Lake Superior and the Missouri River....

St. Cloud was the rendezvous of the party, where a grand ovation awaited us,--a band of music at the station, a dinner at the hotel, a ride to Sauk Rapids, two miles above the t...

It was exhilarating to gallop over the level prairies, inhaling the fresh air, our horses brushing the dew from the grass, and to see flocks of plump prairie chickens rise in th...

Hundreds of Winnipeggers were upon the road, either going to or returning from St. Cloud, from whence all groceries and other supplies are obtained. The teams consist of a singl...

Bottineau is our guide. Take a look at him as he sits by the camp-fire cleaning his rifle. He is tall and well formed, with features which show both his French and Indian parent...

Our halting-place at noon furnishes a pleasing subject for a comic artist. Behold us beneath the shade of old oaks, our horses cropping the rank grass, a fire kindled against th...

In preceding chapters the characteristics of the country west of the Mississippi have been set forth; but many a man seeking a new home would be lonely upon the prairies. The lu...

Embarking at a pier, and steering northwest, we pass up the bay, with the long, narrow, natural breakwater, Minnesota Point, on our right hand, and the level plateau of the main...

The sun was throwing his morning beams upon the tree-tops of the Apostle Islands, as our little steamer, chartered for the occasion at Superior, rounded the promontory of the ma...

"I have called to have a little talk about the West, and think that I should like a farm in Minnesota or in the Red River country," said a gentleman not long since, who introduc...

The statesman, the political economist, or any man who wishes to cast the horoscope of the future of this country, must take into consideration the great lakes, and their connec...