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1Title:  Minnesota as seen by travelers    
 Creator:  Kemper, Jacksonbp, 1789-1870 
 Nute, Grace Lee.
 Publication:  Saint Paul,1926. 
 Call #:  F43A M665 v.7 
 Extent:  p. 264-273. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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2Title:  Voyage in a six-oared skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1817    
 Creator:  Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864 
 Publication:  Henry B. Ashmead, book and job printer, Philadelphia,1860. 
 Call #:  F34B M665Cn v.2 
 Extent:  87 p., [1] leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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3Title:  Minnesota as seen by travelers: a swedish visitor of the early seventies    
 Creator:  Nisbeth, Hugo. 
 Swanson, Roy W.
 Nisbeth, Hugo.
 Publication:  s.n, Saint Paul,1927. 
 Notes:  Translated and edited with introduction and notes by Roy W. Swanson, from the author's Tvêa êar i Amerika, (1872-1874); reseskildringar, Stockholm, 1874, p. 33-70, 145-158. 
 Call #:  F34A M665 v.8 
 Extent:  p. 386-421 ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Swedes -- Minnesota | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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4Title:  Headwaters of the Mississippi: comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca    
 Creator:  Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 
 Publication:  Rand, McNally, Chicago,1893, c1892. 
 Call #:  B 5031 
 Extent:  527 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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5Title:  Headwaters of the Mississippi: comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca    
 Creator:  Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 
 Publication:  Rand McNally, Chicago,1894, c1892. 
 Call #:  F25X G553 
 Extent:  527 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Sources
 
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6Title:  The journals of Joseph N. Nicollet: a scientist on the Mississippi headwaters: with notes on Indian life, 1836-37    
 Creator:  Nicollet, J. N. (Joseph Nicolas), 1786-1843 
 Publication:  Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul,[1970] 
 Notes:  Includes a translation of selected manuscripts (on deposit at the Library of Congress) dealing with the author's first visit to what is now Minnesota. Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  F43DC N586J 
 Extent:  xviii, 288 p. illus., facsims., maps. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ojibwa Indians | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- History -- To 1858
 
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7Title:  Minnesota and its resources: to which are appended Camp-fire sketches, or, Notes of a trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk settlement on the Red River of the north    
 Creator:  Bond, J. Wesley (John Wesley), 1825-1903 
 Belcourt, George Antoine, 1803-1874
 Publication:  Keen & Lee, Chicago,1857, c1856. 
 Notes:  Added t.p., illustrated. Spine title: Minnesota as it is. "Prince Rupert's Land--The Hudson Bay and Northwest Company--The Esquimaux, Montagnes, Crees, Sauteux, Sioux, Assiniboins, etc." / G. A. Bellecourt ; [translated from the French] by Mrs. Letitia May: p. 335-358. Advertisements on front end-paper and fly-leaf. 
 Call #:  F43C B711 1857 
 Extent:  [2], 412 p., [5] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., col. map ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Minnesota -- Description and travel | Manitoba -- Description and travel | North Dakota -- Description and travel | Selkirk (Man.) -- Description and travel | Rupert's Land
 
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8Title:  Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America: for more than five thousand miles, containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country. Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi; and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Publication:  Printed by J. Crukshank, Philadelphia,1792. 
 Notes:  First edition, London 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. For discussion as to authorship, etc. cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E. G. Bourne (American historical review, Jan. 1906) also "A bibliography of Carver's travels" and "Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data," by J. T. Lee. Howes, 215. 
 Call #:  F42J C331T 1792 
 Extent:  xvi, vii, [9]-282 p. 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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9Title:  Travels in Wisconsin    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815
 Publication:  Printed by Harper & bros, New York,1838. 
 Notes:  First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. The third edition, London, 1781, was edited by John Coakley Lettsom. 
 Call #:  F42J C331T5 
 Extent:  xxxii, [33]-376 p. : front. (port.), plates, 2 fold. maps ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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10Title:  Travels through the interior parts of North-America in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815
 Publication:  Printed for the author, and sold by J. Walter [etc.], London,1778. 
 Notes:  First edition. Carver's Travels as printed was probably the work of Dr. John Coakley Lettsom. An article on Carver and his book may be found in American Historical Review, January 1906, v. 11, p. 287-302. Two fold. maps, and plate #2 replaced by Xerox copies. Later published under title: Three years travel through the interior parts of North-America. 
 Call #:  F42J C331 Vault 
 Extent:  10 p. Á., xvi, [17]-543, [1] p. plates. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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11Title:  The seat of empire    
 Creator:  Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 
 Publication:  J.R. Osgood & Co, Boston,1871. 
 Call #:  F43J C675 
 Extent:  viii, 232 p., 6 pl. 12mo. 
 Subjects:  Northern Pacific Railroad | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Red River of the North | Northwestern States | Northwest, Canadian
 
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12Title:  The northern expeditions of Stephen H. Long: the journals of 1817 and 1823 and related documents    
 Creator:  Long, Stephen Harriman, 1784-1864 
 Colhoun, James Edward.
 Kane, Lucile M.
 Holmquist, June Drenning.
 Gilman, Carolyn, 1954-
 Publication:  Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul,1978. 
 Notes:  "The journal of James E. Colhoun, 1823": p. [269]-327. Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  F64J L849 
 Extent:  xii, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Long, Stephen Harriman, -- 1784-1864 -- Diaries | Explorers -- United States -- Diaries | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Northwest, Old -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Great Lakes -- Description and travel
 
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13Title:  Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles: containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands, and rivers, catarcts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the northwest regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country. Together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Publication:  Key & Simpson, Philadelphia,1796. 
 Notes:  First edition has title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America ... London, 1778. An article on Carver and his book and its probable authorship may be found in American Historical Review for January 1906, v. 11, p. 287. 
 Call #:  F42J C331T1 
 Extent:  xx, ix, [11]-360, 20 p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Subscription lists Great Britain 18th century | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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14Title:  Three years' travels throughout [!] the interior parts of North America, for more than five thousand miles: containing an account of the lakes, islands and rivers, cateracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north west regions of that vast continent; with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects, and fishes peculiar to the country    
 Creator:  Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 
 Publication:  Published by Isaiah Thomas & Co, Walpole, N.H,1813. 
 Notes:  First edition, London, 1778, published under title: Travels through the interior parts of North-America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. For discussion as to authorship, etc. cf. "The travels of Jonathan Carver," by E.G. Bourne (American Historical Review, Jan. 1906) also "A bibliography of Carver's travels" and "Captain Jonathan Carver: additional data," by J.T. Lee. 
 Call #:  F42J C331T3 
 Extent:  xvi, [17]-280 p. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Northwestern States | Northwestern States -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Minnesota -- Description and travel | New Hampshire -- Imprints -- Walpole -- 1813 | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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