2] Taliaferro to Crawford, December 12, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_,
1839, No. 516.

[193] Neill's _The History of Minnesota_ (Fourth Edition), pp. 337-339.

[194] In the report for 1850 the agency at St. Peter's is designated a
"Sub-Agency".--_Senate Documents_, 2nd Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I,
Document No. 1, p. 103.

[195] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 339, 340.

[196] _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 213, 1827, No. 54, 1843, No. 222.

[197] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, p. 341.

CHAPTER V

[198] See _Notes on Canada and the North-West States of America_ in
_Blackwood's Magazine_, Vol. LXXVIII, p. 323, September, 1855. These
articles by Laurence Oliphant were later published in book form under
the title of _Minnesota and the Far West_.

[199] This is the height given in Nicollet's _Report intended to
illustrate a Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi
River_, p. 69.

[200] Seymour's _Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West_, p.
103.

[201] This sketch of the fort is obtained from the map of Fort Snelling
in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VIII, p. 431; and from a
_Report of the capacity and condition of the barracks, quarters,
hospital, storehouses, &c., at Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory, made
to the Quartermaster General_. This report was made on August 23, 1856.
It is printed in _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress,
Vol. II, Report No. 351, pp. 407-409.

[202] _American State Papers, Military Affairs_, Vol. IV, p. 122.

[203] Latrobe's _The Rambler in North America_, Vol. II, p. 295.

[204] A statement of the equipment at the various posts during the
fourth quarter of 1834 is printed in the _American State Papers,
Military Affairs_, Vol. V, p. 853-900.

[205] Taliaferro to Lucas, September 30, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_,
1839, No. 492.

[206] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153.

[207] Taliaferro to William Clark, August 17, 1830.--_Indian Office
Files_, 1830, No. 139.

[208] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 7, 1831.

[209] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 8, 1831.

[210] Taliaferro to Lucas, September 30, 1839.--_Indian Office Files_,
1839, No. 492; _Executive Documents_, 3rd Session, 40th Congress, Vol.
VII, Document No. 9, p. 19.

[211] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153.

[212] _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 207.

[213] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 153. In the Sibley House at
Mend