TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.NATURAL PHENOMENA.
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Advantages—Situation and Area—Natural Drainage—Lakes—Topography—Altitudes—Soil and Timber—Geological Structure—Cretaceous Beds—Glacial and Modified Drift—Material Resources—Waterpowers—Aboriginal Earthworks—Archean Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER II.BEFORE THE WHITES CAME.
Nature's Paradise—Earliest Human Inhabitants—Era of the Eskimo—Reign of the Indian—Prehistoric Indians—Indian Tribes—Dakotas—Ojibways—Ojibway-Dakota Conflict—Social Organization of the Ojibway—Origin of the Names Sauk and Osakis in this Region—Winnebagoes—Life of the Indian—By P. M. Magnusson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER III.COMING OF THE WHITES.
Groseilliers and Radisson—Le Sueur and Charleville—Fur Traders and Explorers—Zebulon M. Pike—His Account of Passing Stearns County—Lewis Cass—Expedition of 1832—J. N. Nicollet—Tide of Civilization Begins—By P. M. Magnusson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER IV.CHANGES IN SOVEREIGNTY.
European Monarchs Who Have Ruled Over Stearns County—State and County Affiliations—In the Columbian Empire of Spain—In French Louisiana—Again Spanish—Once More French—Under the Stars and Stripes—By P. M. Magnusson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CHAPTER V.INDIAN TREATIES.
Treatment of the Indian—Treaty of 1785—Dakota Treaty of 1837—Chippewa Treaty of 1847—Treaty of Traverse de Sioux—Treaty of Mendota—Other Indian Treaties—Reign of the Ren Men Ends and the County of Stearns Is Opened to Settlement—By P. M. Magnusson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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