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 | | However, Ilmonen suggested in his book, published in 1926, that "the northernmost part of Minnesota, along the Canadian border, is still almost undisturbed wilderness, where only hunting and fishing are carried on. |
 | | This area includes Lake of the Woods County, which has very few inhabitants. |
 | | East of Lake of the Woods, and still along the Canadian border, lies Koochiching County, where the first white settler was a Scottish bachelor, Alexander Baker, who arrived in 1870, and who lived by trapping and trading with the Indians. |
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