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The seat of empire

Charles Carleton Coffin · 1870 · Scanned text

56,896 words · about 3 h 59 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1870, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01001507); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Charles Carleton Coffin
Language
English
Published
1870
Length
56,896 words · about 3 h 59 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain

 

Contents (5)
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Chapter I. From Chicago To Minneapolis

Page Cutting loose from Care. — Map of the Northwest. — Leaving Chicago. — Fourth of July. — At La Crosse. — Dance on a Steamboat. — Up the Mississippi. — The Boundaries of Minnesota. — Winona. — St. Paul. — Minneapolis. — The Father of Waters in Harness

Chapter II

ST. CLOUD AND BEYOND.

St. Cloud. — Our Party. — First Night in Camp. — A Midnight Thunder-Storm. — Sunday in Camp. — Up the Sauk Valley. — White Bear Lake. — Catching a Turtle. — Lightning Lake. — Second Sabbath in Camp. — The River Systems of the Northwest. — Elevations across the Continent. — The Future . . 25

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