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| | MINNESOTA - LoveToKnow Article on MINNESOTA |
 | | In 1762 the Sieur de Ia Perrire, acting as an agent of the French government, established on the west bank of Lake Pepin a fortified post (Fort Beauharnois), which was to be a headquarters for missionaries, a tra ding post and a starting-point for expeditions in search of the western sea. |
 | | Consult also Materials for the Future History of Minnesota, published by the State Historical Society (St Paul, 1856), and Isaac S. Bradleys bibliography of Northwestern institutional history in the Proceedings of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (Madison, Wis., 1896). |
 | | For the territorial period consult also E. Seymour, Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West (New York, 1850); J. Wesley Bond, Minnesota and its Resources (New York, 1853); C. Andrews, Minnesota and Dacotah (Washington, 1857); and C. Flandreau, The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier (St Paul, 1901). |
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