ker, Olmsted, Pope, Ramsey,
Rice, Steele, Stevens, Wabasha, Waseca, Washington, and
Winona, and five districts, namely, The St. Croix Valley, the
Upper Mississippi Valley, the Minnesota Valley, the Red River
Valley and Park Region, and Southern Minnesota.

125. Winona and its Environs, by L. H. Bunnell, 1897, with maps and
portraits.

Among the Earliest Publications are:

126. Minnesota and its Resources, by J. Wesley Bond, 1853.

127. Minnesota Year Books, 1851, 1852, 1853, by William G. Le Duc.

128. Floral Home, or First Years of Minnesota, 1857, by Harriet
E. Bishop.

129. Narratives and Reports of Travels and Explorations, by
Hennepin, Carver, Long and Keating, Beltrami, Featherstonhaugh,
Schoolcraft, Nicollet, Owen, Oliphant, Andrews, Seymour and
others.

130. For Geographic and Geologic descriptions of Minnesota, the
reports of the geological and natural history survey are the
most complete sources of information, by Prof. N. H. Winchell,
State Geologist, assisted by Warren Upham, Ulysses Sherman
Grant, and others. The annual reports comprise twenty-three
volumes, 1872 to 1894, with another to be published. Several
other volumes have been issued as bulletins of the survey, on
iron, mining, birds, mammals, and fishes.

131. Four thousand two hundred and fifty bound volumes of Minnesota
newspapers, embracing complete files of nearly all the
newspapers ever published in Minnesota from first to last.

132. One thousand seven hundred and two books and about fifteen
hundred pamphlets relating in some way to Minnesota history.
All these books can be found in the library of the Minnesota
Historical Society, which is always open to the public, free.

133. Much historical and other information is contained in the
messages of the governors and reports of the various state
officers, and especially in the Legislative Manuals prepared
for the use of the members of the legislature by the secretary
of state, under chapter 122 of the General Laws of 1893, and
former laws. These Manuals, and especially that of 1899, are
replete with valuable statistics concerning the state, its
history and resources.

134. Illustrated History of Minnesota, by T. H. Kirk, M. L., 1887.