. An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota. government ),S. In substantiation of the statement thatthe qiuirry Mas in the past neutral ierri-t(Uy, 1 (|uotp at length from the writingsof (ieoi-ge Callin (Xorth .Vmei-ican In-dians. Milunic two), who emphaticallystates that such was the case. George Cat-lin, than w Imui lliei-e is iin heller author-it\ on the Xnrlh .ieric:m Indians, wastlie lirst while inau to \isil the (juarriesand wroti the rullowing while on his vi,-itthcie ill :!?: I had long ago heard many curious de-scriptions of this spot given by th
. An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota. government ),S. In substantiation of the statement thatthe qiuirry Mas in the past neutral ierri-t(Uy, 1 (|uotp at length from the writingsof (ieoi-ge Callin (Xorth .Vmei-ican In-dians. Milunic two), who emphaticallystates that such was the case. George Cat-lin, than w Imui lliei-e is iin heller author-it\ on the Xnrlh .ieric:m Indians, wastlie lirst while inau to \isil the (juarriesand wroti the rullowing while on his vi,-itthcie ill :!?: I had long ago heard many curious de-scriptions of this spot given by the Indians,and had contracted the most impatient de-sire to visit it. It will be seen by some ofthe traditions inserted in this letter, frommy notes taken on the upper Mississippi two miles east of town, was built about ninetyt)r one huTidred years .ago b> the Sissetons,who at tliat time wei-e at war with the Oma-has, who then claimed the ^inarry. one of thecauses of the wai- being a strife for the pos-session of the (luarry.—Pipestone County Star,.luly 2t. AT THE PIPESTONK QUARRY TIISI()1;Y of PIPESTONE COUNTY. 247 four years since, that those tribes havevisited this place freely in former times;and that it has once been held and ownedin common, as neutral ground, amongst thedifferent tribes, who met here to renewtheir pipes under some superstition whichstayed the tomahawk of natural foes, al-ways raised in deadly hate and vengeancein other places. It will be seen, also, thatwithin a few years past (and that, probablyby the instigation of the whites, who havetold them that by keeping off other tribesand manufacturing the pipes themselves,and trading them to other adjoining na-tions, they can acquire much influence andwealth) the Sioux have laid entire claimto the quarry; and as it is in the center oftheir country, and they are more powerfulthan any other tribes, they are able to suc-cessfully prevent any access to it, That this place should have been visitedfor cent
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