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Title

  • Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents and notes.

Summary

  • William Henry Carman Folsom (1817-1900), Minnesota legislator, businessman, and historian, emigrated from Maine to the Upper Midwest when he was nineteen years old. There he lived the rest of his life, achieving prominence in the lumber business and other related activities. His autobiography provides a detailed history of Minnesota, county by county, with a particular emphasis on the region's most prominent men and the role they played in its economic, political, and cultural development. For the most part, chapters are devoted to the histories of one or more counties and contain capsule biographies as well as significant geographical and institutional features. There are several narratives of early settlement and anecdotes about the relationships between settlers and Indians. Preceding the historical materials is an extensive autobiographical introduction.

Names

  • Folsom, William H. C. (William Henry Carman), 1817-1900.
  • Edwards, E. E. (Elijah Evan), 1831-1915, ed.

Created / Published

  • [St. Paul] Published by Pioneer Press Company, 1888.

Headings

  • -  Minnesota--History
  • -  Wisconsin--History

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • xliii, [1], 763 p. front., illus., ports. 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F606 .F67

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • rc01001070

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Folsom, William H. C. Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents and notes. editeds by Edwards, E. E [St. Paul Published by Pioneer Press Company, 1888] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01001070/.

APA citation style:

Folsom, W. H. C., Edwards, E. E., ed. (1888) Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents and notes. [St. Paul Published by Pioneer Press Company] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01001070/.

MLA citation style:

Folsom, William H. C. Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents and notes. ed by Edwards, E. E [St. Paul Published by Pioneer Press Company, 1888] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rc01001070/>.