Source of the Mississippi Discovered by Schoolcraft Centennial
Minnesota commemorates the 100th anniversary of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's 1882 discovery of Lake Itasca as the Mississippi head. The voyage, aided by Chippewa guides, traced the river from Itasca to Cass Lake, with Schoolcraft later credited as the true discoverer despite prior explorations by La Salle and others.
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Elmo Scott Watson
North American
Mississippi
Ian
Hernando de Soto
Panfilo Narvaez
Gulf of Mexico
Téwis
Chickasaw Bluffs
State of
de Sota
Great River
Luis de Moscosco
Gulf
Mexico
de Roto
Leutenant
Moscosco
New World
Pierre Haprit Radisson
Medard Chouart Groseiliera
Tiree Rivers
Quebec
Missusippi
Agnes C. Laut
Pathfinders
West
Marquette
Louis ‘Liet
Wisconsin River
Folj
Louis Hennepin
St. Anante
Rene Cavalier de la Salle
Intyre
Hia
North America
Aurveyor
David Thompson
Northwest Company
Ing Nee
Grand Portage
Mandan
Sigota
Turtle Lake
Zebulon
M. Pike
Pike
St. Henang
Attis Talla
Indy Inkayo
Tinin Sou
Corto
Casy
Medan
Cass
Michigan Territory
Cass Ny
Detroit
St. Louis River
Dulués
Minn
American Fur Company
Fond du Lac
St. Louis
East Savanna
West Savanna
Sandy Lake
Red Cedar Lake
Cassian
Cass Lake
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Minnesota
Schoolcraft
Lake Itasca
Itasca State Park
Northwestern Minnesota Historical Association
Minnesota Historical Society
Hampton
Middlebury
Union Colleges
Mississippi Valley
Cass Jake
Northwest
Great Lakes
Black Hawk
Tminois
William T Boutwell
Douglass Houghton
James Allen
Sault Ste. Marie
Savanna Portage
Sandy
Cass Jakes
Lake Roperiot
Ozawindlb
Yellow Head
Cass Jak
Starsland
Casspir
Misalusippi
Pha Yellow Head
Orly
Lake Bemidji
Schoolcraft River
la Salle
Itasca Lake
Lac la Biche
Elk Lake
Boutwell
Itnsea
Superior
United States
Casslake
Storigland
Colcagpt
Grand Island
Itasca
Fort Snelling
Sault
St. Croix
Lake Superior
Elk Jake
Mississippi River
Subways and Glitter Clash With Quiet Hope in Night Work
Olaf Glum, a rock laborer, endures brutal night shifts building a city subway while wealthier theatergoers glow in luxury above. His wife Fania discovers they will have a sixth child, renewing his fragile hope amid hardship and social bitterness.
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Dore
Olaff Wentski
Mapa
Russia
Olaft
Fanla
Olaff
Claft
Fanta
Cliff
Glum
Olaf
Oleff
Dog
Fante
Fania
Tle
Early Watch Cases and the Toys of Sixteenth Century Cravats
Excerpts recount the extravagances of late Renaissance watch cases per note from Blois France where toymen sold jeweled pierced and enamelled cases with crosses stars skulls and flower motifs. It traces German origins, Elizabethan ownership, Puritan influence on fobs circa 1625, and the later outer coverings of fish skin tortoise shell shagreen wood amber or Pinchbeck to protect inner cases.
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Nuremberg
Blois
France
Germany
Elizabeth
Christopher Pinchbeck
Temperatures Down Deep in Copper Mines Near Lake Superior
The passage claims boiling points in copper mines near Lake Superior occur at about 85,000 feet depth, contrasted with 22,000 feet south of Berlin and about 18,000 feet in a Lake Superior region, implying a low temperature zone and mood at those depths.
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Lake Superior
Thia
Ber-lin
Germany
Baltic
North Sea
Doone Valley Picture Sparks Book Size Question
In a beauty parlor a customer studies a Doone valley image and asks a young attendant if Lorna Doone is a thick or thin book. The exchange highlights a playful confusion about book length.
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Doone Valley
Ers
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Father Waters
Western Newspaper Union
Lake Iasca
Wiliam Boutell
By Fannie Hurst
Ture
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