Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Stories of Minnesota
The history of the struggle of the pioneer and yeoman of early Minnesota, though it is an inland state, carved out of the Louisiana and Northwest Territories, reads like the story of many a state won along the coast. The battles of the settlers with soil and savage, the energy and thrift later displayed by her citizens, or their patriotism when war called to action - these things are not new, nor indeed remarkable, when their frequency is counted. But a knowledge of the struggles and their incident deeds of courage, necessary to planting a new world, and especially a knowledge of what was necessary to a conquest of America, is of value to youth. And surely it is more fitting that the western boys and girls should finish their school-days with a knowledge of the historical facts in the rise of their own states to eminence, rather than that they be acquainted only with the story of the Pilgrims of Massachusetts or the Cavaliers of Virginia.
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