. An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota. -ywas cicaled in 1SI9 tbe southwesternlinrliiHi \\as a \crilalili lerra fad all Ibc laiiil west of tbe Missis- »It is tliat Nirollet rtij not in per-son visit Rock county, but certainly some ofhis party did. OwinK to his premature deathmuch of a historical nature concerning thisregion was lost. He had notes for a work ofseveral volumes, relating principally to what isnow Minnesota, and he had only fairly startedthe worlt when he died. •The name had been given by the earlierFrench e.\plorers. ?Wis
. An illustrated history of the counties of Rock and Pipestone, Minnesota. -ywas cicaled in 1SI9 tbe southwesternlinrliiHi \\as a \crilalili lerra fad all Ibc laiiil west of tbe Missis- »It is tliat Nirollet rtij not in per-son visit Rock county, but certainly some ofhis party did. OwinK to his premature deathmuch of a historical nature concerning thisregion was lost. He had notes for a work ofseveral volumes, relating principally to what isnow Minnesota, and he had only fairly startedthe worlt when he died. •The name had been given by the earlierFrench e.\plorers. ?WisUvard of the Mississippi river thecountry was unexplored and virgin. Tliercwere wide expanses of wild and tracklessprairie, never traversed by a white are now tlie liighly developed countiesof southern and southwestern Minnesota, withtheir fine and flourishing cities and towns andthe other institutions tliat make for a statesemiruncc and gi-eiitness. Catlin had passedfrom Rock to the Pipestone quarry;Nicollet and liis surveying party had gone over. JOSEPH NICOLAS NICOLLET Who Explored Southwestern Minnesota in 1838 and Drew the FirstAuthentic Map of the County. / msr((i;v of k-ock couxtv. 39 sippi was still in uiidisputeil o\\ iiL>rsliipnl the SiiHix baiKls, and white men hadno rights whatever in the eountj-y. Butthe tide id iniinij;ratiin tn the west setin and settlers were elaiiioring lur admis-sion to the rieli lands west of the time the le,i;al harrier was removed. In the spring of 1851 President Fill-more, at the of residents ofMinnesota territoi-j, directed that atreaty with the Sioux be made aminamed as eommissioncrs to eouduet thenegotiations Governor Alexander Eam-sev, ex-otlieio commissioner for Minne-sota, and Luke Lea, the national com-missioner of Indian affairs. These com-missioners completed a treaty witli theSisseton and Wahpaton bands—the up-per bands, as they were usually called—at Traverse des Sioux (near the
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