Frontier Letters Describe St Anthony Falls and Sioux Ball Play
A fragment from the Portland Advertiser prints a soldier’s letters from St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi in 1833. It details Fort Snelling and the falls, prairie scenery, Indian villages, and a Sioux ball game with annuities and a courtship tale.
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Portland Advertiser
alls of
St. Anthony
Upper atsippi
Mississippi Falls
Ississippi
Prairie du Chien
Wabashaw’s
nave
Wabashaw
Howe
David Crocket
ulters
great falls
St. Peters
Tie
St. Anthony's Falls
Vail
Lin
Boctor
Our native land is the Union not narrow bounds
The piece denounces a Delaware or Pennsylvania chauvinism urging loyalty to the United States as a whole. It argues native land means the nation from sea to sea, citing patriots like Warren and Washington and warning against clannish illiberality that divides states.
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Big Thunder
Throgmorton
Black Hawk
Fort Snelling
St. Peters
Mississippi
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States
Prairie Du Chien
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Abraham
Palestine
Gideon
Saul
David
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Kent
Great Britain
Julius Cinsar
Britain
William the conqueror
Moghiad
France
Flanders
Massachusetts
England
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Delaware
Mercer
Waington
Greene
Lincoln
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