num_pages: 272
description: A native of upstate New York, Prescott headed west in 1819, ending his journey at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, which would later become Minneapolis. He married the daughter of a Dakota subchief and became a government interpreter of the Dakota language (including for the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux). He worked as a miner, a trapper, and on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. He also ran trading posts in several locations, one of which is now the town of Prescott, Wis. He was killed during the Dakota War of 1862, shortly after writing this memoir of his travels and activities.
language: English
title: The Recollections of Philander Prescott: Frontiersman of the Old Northwest, 1819–1862
publisher: University of Nebraska Press