American Fur Company in Minnesota

[RichW]

Well, you might need to bring in a back hoe Most of the American Fur Company papers haven't been published.  I'm not even sure where they all are, but Minnesota Historical Society has a bunch.  Road trip!

[Minnesota Mike]

Well, you might need to bring in a back hoe Most of the American Fur Company papers haven't been published.  I'm not even sure where they all are, but Minnesota Historical Society has a bunch.  Road trip!

Yup - am planning such next year. I'm a member of the MHS, so intend to dive deep. But need to know what to look for - hence my pulsing to see if anyone knows what I should be looking for vice just throwing the net wide and hoping for the best.

Want to time the research foray with an event back 'home' so that I can fire off the smokepole if possible or hit one of the re-enactor posts when they are at full throttle. So schedule is still in flux.

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MM

[Riley/MN]

I just picked up a book-hot off the presses!

Up at the Mille Lacs rondy, they usually have Larry Luukkenon come in and do a talk on trade guns, etc.

Well Larry has just published a book entitled Between The Waters: Tracing the Northwest Trail from Lake superior to the Mississippi
He picked them up from the publisher last week and was at the History fest selling them on Saturday. I don't know when I will get a chance to read it-but it is right in the time and place you guys are talking about.

[RichW]

Ain't you more in the Chippewa/St. Croix Country Riley?    Do you have these?



http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?a ... 689idiv186))

Paste the whole thing in.

[Riley/MN]

Thanks for the link. Hmm, more to read-just when I was getting busy sending out resumes.

I think I better finish the resumes first, no?

[RichW]

Thanks for the link. Hmm, more to read-just when I was getting busy sending out resumes.

I think I better finish the resumes first, no?

Um, yeah.  In the current vernacular, gettin' layed-off sucks.

[Riley/MN]

But I did browse quickly-just a bit... Great site!

[RichW]

For when the resumés are done...

These are some of my favorites:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/

Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volume 5.

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 19.
?Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 20.

Personal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: with brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A.D. 1812 to A.D. 1842.

[Minnesota Mike]

I just picked up a book-hot off the presses!

Up at the Mille Lacs rondy, they usually have Larry Luukkenon come in and do a talk on trade guns, etc.

Well Larry has just published a book entitled Between The Waters: Tracing the Northwest Trail from Lake superior to the Mississippi
He picked them up from the publisher last week and was at the History fest selling them on Saturday. I don't know when I will get a chance to read it-but it is right in the time and place you guys are talking about.

Intend to order one now that they are available.

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MM

[Minnesota Mike]

Just got Larry's book.

Looks great - lots of good info from many sources compiled into one place. Have not had chance to fully read it yet, but what I've read so far is pretty good. The old maps he has included are clear and easy to read. Wish that the photos he has taken of the actual places were in color, but everything so far looks to be in black and white.

Will comment more after I finish devouring it.

What did you think of the book?

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MM

[Riley/MN]

It's on the coffee table with a bookmark somewhere in the second chapter.  

What I have read so far-I like. Of course when I read it I can hear Larry's voice explaining about these areas, which is kinda neat.

[Minnesota Mike]

Anybody else get this book?

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MM

[RichW]

Mike,

2 PM's sent.  1833 Letters from a Minnesota fur trader.  Hopefully you will find them useful.

HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCHES MADE BY THE
MICHIGAN PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY  V. 37
LANSING: WYNKOOP, HALLENBECK, CRAWFORD CO. 1909, 1910

LETTERS ON THE FUR TRADE 1833 BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON

[Minnesota Mike]

Looks great - very cool - Thanks!

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MM

[Riley/MN]

Rich, are those available online?

(BTW, in the still-current vernacular, being layed off for 5 months REALLY sucks)

Mike, didja finish Larry's book? I did and lent my copy out to the afore mentioned Mr. Gurtek... but it shore hits the area you are interested in. What do you think???

You make shore you let someone know when you are makin that trip this way. Due to my lack of employment, my trip down there isn't going to happen. (If you see anyone runnin around in USS Inchon hats next weekend, you tell 'em ET3 Snyder said hi.)