Augustus Aspinwall reminiscences, 1902 Feb. 10.

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Augustus Aspinwall reminiscences, 1902 Feb. 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313819007

Deals largely with Aspinwall's years as a trader at the Crow Wing Chippewa Agency near Fort Ripley (1858-1866), the Indian trade, agency administration, annuity payments, Ojibwe reactions to the Dakota Conflict (1862), and the death of Ojibwe chief Hole-in-the-Day (1868). Also mentions Aspinwall's St. Anthony livery stable (1853-1855), a trip he made with George Bonga, an African-American trader, to Leech Lake and Pokegama Falls (1855), and a townsite claim at Wadena (1857-1858).

49 pages.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Hole-in-the-Day, Chief, 1828-1868

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Aspinwall, Augustus, 1830-

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Peltoniemi, Carl W. S.

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Aspinwall family.

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Bonga, George, approximately 1800-1874

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