Concise History of the State of Minnesota (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Concise History of the State of Minnesota Iers, now Pigeon River, and during the autumn reached Rainy Lake, and near Rainy Lake River erected a post called Fort St. Pierre, the baptismal name of. Verandrie. The next year an advance was made to the Lake of the Woods, and on its western shore was erected a fort, in compliment to Charles Beauharnois, the Governor of Canada, named Fort St. Charles. In the year 1734, near the entrance of Lake W'innipeg, was established Fort Maurepas, and here for a time exploration ceased. Owing to the exhaustion of supplies. During the month of June, 1736, twenty-one members of the expedition were encamped upon an island in the Lake of the lvoods, and surprised bv a band of hostile Sioux. And all killed. Among the slain were one of Verandrie's sons, also a priest named Ouneau1 who was the Spiritual adviser of the party. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.