The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-23
VOLUME " OF
N. D. HISTORY
AN INTERESTING PRELIMINARY
skETcH or THE CONTENTS OF
FORTHCOMING VOLUME GIVEN
our nv THE BOARD OF Eol-
TORS,

The following has been made public
by the board Of directors of the North
Dakota State Historical society:
Your attention is called to the con-
tents Of the Forthcoming volume "
OF the collections OF the state his
torical society OF North Dakota
which are given below.
The history OF the state is repre-
scented in the following:
A sketch Of Mckenzie County by
George schafer, The Bohemians OF
Richland County by VIM. Elznic.
Survey of the Northern Boundary
Line by Ethel May, The Dunkards of
Cando by Roy Thompson, and Public
Lands In North Dakota by Ruth
Johnson.
Northwest history is well repre-
scented:
A Study OF the Breakup OF the
Hudson's Bay Co. Monopoly in the
Red River Valley by Hattie Listen
felt; a reprint Of the evidence in the
conflict between the Hudson's Bay
Co. and the Northwest Co. as sum-
married and reviewed by w. B. Colt
man, special commissioner for the
British government; a hitherto un-
pNDlA6llCu ACSOLN VA H AAAIdNO9 ia
the council of the Hudson's Bay Co..
1830-43, with preface and a~nnotations
by Isaac Cowfe, Winnipeg. This val
liable collection OF papers contains
the minutes of council proceedings
at York factory, 1S30-32, at the Red
river settlement In the years 1888.
1885, 1889, 1851 and 1853, and at Nor
way house in the years 1885, 1887, 1910.
1912. The standing rules OF the Hud-
Uo1SS Raxy ~ ae aHnVnfAI A., goQc a1a
given in full as well as the text of
an important agreement entered into
in 1889 between the Hudson's Bay
Co. and the Russian American Co.
There is also an average valuation
list OF furs for 1S41 and a scale of
freight and passage on the Hudson's
Bay Co. vessels for 1S43.
For the history OF the Missouri val
ley we publish very fun extracts in
Life In the Interior OF United States,
as Fascinating record of pioneer con-
ditions az they obtained on the lower
cours of the Missouri river in the
years 1824-1827. DIR. Duden was a
well educated man, who, impelled by
~altruistic motives, came to the west
ern wilds to investigate the existing
conditions in order that, upon first
hand information, he might correctly
daNASC AAAS SCA AAIGA SOuILIyElEH DIS "
the parts OF the United States which
were best fitted to better their politi-
cal and economic condition. There
is eXtant a wealth of evidence to
show that this account was directly
responsible for thousands of Germans
coming to the lower course of the
Missouri, where many settled, while
many others, up seeing the practice
of slavery in that region, migrated
far north into the free territory oil
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan
Minnesota and Dakota. With this Is
published a long and extremely in
teresting manuscript as well as
diary Of n of the men who was in
duced to corme to America upon read
ing Duden's account. Both Of these
hitherto unpublished documents are
very rich In matter regarding the
settlement OF Germans In the middle
west and their experiences In the
new country. Some portion OF the
printed defence which Duden issued
in his old days accompanies the trans.
lation OF his travels.
Several Indian legends from the
mythology OF the Mandan and Hi.
datsa tribes are nearly ready and viii
probably appear in the new volume