. A half century of Minnesota as territory and state; a concise account of the principal events in the period of discovery, exploration, and settlement, and during the half century of territorial and state government . ring his long service, which ex-tended to 1840. The First Mill Wheels Turn. Manufacturing began in Minnesota in1821. True, it was on a very meagre scaleand not on a commercial basis; but water the first French explorer bartered with theIndians for furs, giving in exchange someworthless trinkets which had rare value tothe savage mind. This sort of traffic be-came quite extensive
. A half century of Minnesota as territory and state; a concise account of the principal events in the period of discovery, exploration, and settlement, and during the half century of territorial and state government . ring his long service, which ex-tended to 1840. The First Mill Wheels Turn. Manufacturing began in Minnesota in1821. True, it was on a very meagre scaleand not on a commercial basis; but water the first French explorer bartered with theIndians for furs, giving in exchange someworthless trinkets which had rare value tothe savage mind. This sort of traffic be-came quite extensive before the end of theeighteenth century, and was of sufficientimportance to warrant the establishmentof the Northwest company soon after theRevolution. But until 1823 the businesswas confined to such means of transpor-tation as the Indian canoes or the bateauxor Mackinaw boats of the traders. When,on May loth, 1823, the steamboat Virginiaarrived at Fort Snelling and heralded herapproach with a blast from her whistle A HALF CENTURY OF MINNESOTA. U which terrorized the waiting assemblage ofIndians, a new era in the commerce of theNorthwest was opened. The little Vir-ginia—just ii8 feet in length—was the fore-. MUfi. tlIAKLOTTE O. V.\N CLEVK. Identified with ^linnesota since 1819, when she came to Ft. Snellin-;. the l)al).v daughter of Lieut. Clark. runner of a great fleet of river steamboatswhich brought immigrants and suppUes tothe rapidly developing country about FortSnelling, and which, after a while, com-menced to take something back to thesouthern markets besides the furs broughtin by the Indian hunters. For many yearsthe bateaux and the famous Red Rivercarts remained the only means of transpor-tation into the woods and prairies northand west of Fort Snelling, and it was notuntil after the war, when railroad buildingcommenced in earnest, that the commerceof the state began to take on such char-acter as to give it importance in the busi-ness world. The Church and Early Mi
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