Correspondence and report relating to maps of Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase, undated and 1903-1904.

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Correspondence and report relating to maps of Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase, undated and 1903-1904.

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Correspondence and a report relating to a series of maps showing the evolving boundaries of the Louisiana territory and the Louisiana Purchase as acquired by the United States. Included are two letters (1903, 1904) from J. H. Fimple and Frank Bond of the U.S. General Land Office to O. D. Wheeler; a report (14 p., undated) entitled, "Louisiana Purchase Progress Maps of the United States"; and two letters (1904) from Nathaniel P. Langford to Fimple and Bond at the General Land Office concerning boundaries shown on the maps.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, 1832-1911

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Nathanial Pitt Langford was born in Westmoreland, New York, in 1832; he came to St. Paul in 1854. He was cashier in the banking house of Marshall and Company in 1855, and in 1858 he became cashier of the Bank of the State of Minnesota. On June 16, 1862, Langford left St. Paul with the Northern Overland Expedition led by Captain James L. Fisk to establish a wagon road into Montana Territory. Langford settled in Bannack, Montana Territory, where he established freightage, milling, and...

United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...

Wheeler, Olin D. (Olin Dunbar), 1852-1925

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Fimple, J. H.

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Bond, Frank, 1856-1940

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Frank Bond was an American illustrator, statesman, and cartographer. Born in Iowa and educated at the State University of Iowa, he moved to Wyoming, and became active in local politics, serving as a member of the first Wyoming legislature. He later moved to Washington, D.C., where he was chief clerk of the General Land Office and later worked for the United States Geographic Board. Bond was an active illustrator, painter, and ornithologist, and drew numerous maps, including an often-reproduced m...