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This volume provides information about origins of the names of various geographical entities throughout Minnesota. It includes a discussion of the naming of the Minnesota River, by Europeans and American Indian tribes, and the River Warren, the glacial river that carved the Minnesota River Valley following the last glaciation.

Written by the wife of a U.S. Army officer, this book describes various customs, activities, ceremonies, and legends of the Sioux Indians living near Fort Snelling in the 1840s. The author addresses such aspects as the role of women in the tribes, dances and feasts, village governance, medicinal practices, language, and religious beliefs. Several drawings illustrate the text.

Originally published in 1935, this book documents a canoe trip up the Minnesota and Red rivers to Hudson Bay taken by journalist Eric Sevareid, with a companion, at age seventeen. Less than a quarter of the book relates to the Minnesota River segment of the trip, but this section does include observations on river conditions (e.g., width, rapids, and sandbars) and wildlife (e.g., carp, sturgeon, and herons).

Commissioned by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, this study was designed to produce a comprehensive list of archaeological and historic sites in the Minnesota river Valley (between Mendota and le Sueur) to identify areas which might be impacted by the completion of a Minnesota Valley Trail and to provide information for interpretive sue along the trail. The report provides detailed information on such topics as ancient Native American cultures, early exploration, fur trading, major river floods, steamboating, railroads, early settlements, and stone quarrying.