Old Fort Snelling
excerpt from the book..A CENTURY AND A HALF OF FOREIGN RULEOn an autumn day in 1766 Captain Jonathan Carver stood upon the bluffwhich rises at the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers andviewed the wonderful landscape of prairie and wooded valleys that laybefore him. As a captain in the colonial troops of Connecticut he hadserved his king faithfully in the late war with France; and now in thedays of peace which followed the glorious victory he sought to continuehis usefulness by exploring the vast regions which had been added to thedomains of Great Britain and Spain. Three years of travel in thewilderness taught him that those wild lands would not always be thehaunt of savage animals and wandering tribes.
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