The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1912-09-06

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The attention Of the reader is called
| to the contents OF the fofthecaiue Vol.
ume ~. Of the Collections Of the State
Historical Society Of North Dakota
which are given below.
The history 81 the state is represented
in the following: sa9s 4
Asketch Of Mckenzie Co. by Geo.
Skater, The Bohemians Of Richland Co.
by VIM. Elznic, Survey Of the Interna-
tional Boundary Line by Ethel May,
The Dunkards Of Cando by Roy Thomp-
son, and Public Lands in North Dakota
by Ruth johnson.
Northwest history is well represented:
A Study of the Breakup of the Hud-
sons Bay Co. Monopoly in the Red Riv-
er Valley by Hattie Listenfelt; reprint
of the evidence,in the conflict between
the Hudson's Bay Co. and the North.
west Co. as summarized and reviewed
by:W. B. Coltman, special Commission
er for the British Government; hither.
to unpublished record of the minutes of
the Council of the Hudson's Bay Co.,
1830-43. with preface and annotations
by Isaac Cowie, Winnipeg This valu-
able collection of papers contains the
minutes of Council Proceedings at York
factory 1890 80, at the Red River Settle
ment in the years 1888, 1885, 1889, 1851
and 1853, and at Norway House in the
years 1886, 1887, ls4O and 1912. The
standing rules of the Hudson's Bay Co.
as adopted in 1886 are given in full as
we'll as the text of an important agree.
ment 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 scale
of freight and passage on the sHudson's
Bay>vessels for lS43.
For the history of the Missouri Valley |
we publish very full extracts in transla.
ton from Gottfried Duden's Life in the |
Interior of United States, fascinating
record of pioneer conditions as they OBJ |
tanned on the lower course of the Miss |
ouri River in the years 1924. 1927. Doc
tor Duden was well educated man,
who, inipelled by altruistic motives,
came to the western:wilds to investigate
the existing conditions in order that,
upon first hand information he might |
correctly advise his German countrymen
as to the parts of the United States
which were best fitted to better their
political and economic condition. There
is extant a wealth OF evidence to show |
that this account was directly RESPONSE
bic for thousands of Germans coming to
the lower course of the Missouri, where
many settled, while many others, upon
seeieg the practice of slavery in that re-
gion, migrated far north into the free
territory of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Minnesota and Dakota. With
this is published long and extremely
interesting manuscript rs we'll as dairy
of one of the men who was induced to
come to America upon reading Duden's
account. Both of these hitherto unpub-
lished documents are very rich in mat
ter regarding the settlement of Germans
in the middle west and their early ex-
periences in the new country. Some
portions of the printed defence which
Duden issued in his old days accompan-
les the translation of his travels.
Several Indian legends from the N.Y.
thology of the Mandan and Hidatsa
tribes arc nearly ready and will probably
appear in the new volume.
All members of the State Historical
Society are entitled to copy of the
manual and the membership fee is 81.
All North Dakotans should be men,
bers. Address DR.. o. G. LIBBY,
University, N. d.