Minnesota Historical Society

And think about the 21-year-old kid from Minnesota who did exactly that and built himself into something the world didn't yet have a word for.

My sources today include Lindbergh's own The Spirit of St. Louis, A. Scott Berg's biography Lindbergh, and the research holdings at the Minnesota Historical Society.

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where we have three episodes so far covering five cities exposing all of these fire narratives in all of these old world buildings where they tell us that the first capitol building went up in flames destroying the building but the building supposedly held two million dollars in the safe all remaining intact of course And the large collection of historic newspapers kept in the Minnesota Historical Society's vault also survived.

No issues, of course, there.

Fire burns a building down, but the newspapers are just fine.

Turns out, I'm not the first to search for this stone.

In 1911, someone connected with the Minnesota Historical Society searched museums in Paris for the Lavrandre stone.

But there's one place he may not have looked, the Church of Saint-Sulpice.

a breathtaking place of worship that Lavrandre's boss, the Count of Maripas, had a hand in designing.

Hennepin did not arrive until sixteen eighty.

But as the exploits of these earlier travelers left no trace that can in any important way influence the history of our state beyond challenging the claim of priority so long enjoyed by Hennepin, I will simply mention the fact of their advent without comment, referring the curious reader for the proof of these matters to the library of the Minnesota Historical Society, where the details can be found.

Hennepin was with La Salle at Fort Crevecoeur, near Lake Peoria, in what is now Illinois, in sixteen eighty.

La Salle was the superior of the exploring party of which young Hennepin was a member, and in February sixteen eighty, he selected Hennepin and two traders for the arduous and dangerous undertaking of exploring the unknown regions of the upper Mississippi.

They arrived at the St. Peter's River in September 1819, encamped on or near the spot where now stands Mendota.

During the winter of 1819-20, the troops were terribly afflicted with scurvy.

General Sibley, in an address before the Minnesota Historical Society in speaking of it, says, So suddenly was the attack that soldiers apparently in good health when they retired at night were found dead in the morning.

One man, who was relieved from his tour of sentinel duty and had stretched himself upon a bench when he was called four hours later to resume his duties, was found lifeless.

Not one.

The Minnesota Historical Society notes that Great Northern Railway personnel files from the 1890s are selected, with many missing, particularly from earlier years.

Family historians are warned that railroad employment records are scattered across hundreds of repositories and that many have been destroyed or simply lost.

Before 1937, there was no centralized system.

The body of the chief was found and identified.

in part by the twice-broken arm, and this arm and his scalp may be seen to-day in the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A. Eastman.

O Hiesa.

Hennepin did not arrive until 1680.

But as the exploits of these earlier travelers left no trace that can in any important way influence the history of our state beyond challenging the claim of priority so long enjoyed by Hennepin, I will simply mention the fact of their advent without comment, referring the curious reader for the proof of these matters to the library of the Minnesota Historical Society, where the details can be found.

Hennepin was with La Salle at Fort Crevecoeur, near Lake Peoria, in what is now Illinois, in 1680.

La Salle was the superior of the exploring party, of which young Hennepin was a member, and in February 1680 he selected Hennepin and two traders for the arduous and dangerous undertaking of exploring the unknown regions of the upper Mississippi.

They arrived at the St. Peter's River in September 1819 and camped on or near the spot where now stands Mendota.

During the winter of 1819-20, the troops were terribly afflicted with scurvy.

General Sibley, in an address before the Minnesota Historical Society in speaking of it, says, So suddenly was the attack that soldiers apparently in good health when they retired at night were found dead in the morning.

One man, who was relieved from his tour of sentinel duty and had stretched himself upon a bench when he was called four hours later to resume his duties, was found lifeless.

And one of the nooses was kept as a trophy for one of the people who exhumed these bodies.

And then the Minnesota Historical Society had the noose as part of their collection.

And then in 2024, finally, so this happened after the book was published, there was a formal request to have the noose returned to the Dakota people, and it was approved.

So the noose is a character in the play as well.