Fort Snelling, Minnesota, While In Command Of Colonel Npjosiah Snelling, Fifth Infantry.

REV EDWARD D. NEILL

Publication: Magazine Of Western History (?), 1888, NP

First Separate. Printed Wrappers. 19pp. "Reprinted from Magazine Of Western History 1888." A very scarce history of the early days of Fort Snelling, at the mouth of the Minnesota River, where it meets the Mississippi River, between present day Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. Heavy chipping to all edges of the detached front wrapper, and rear wrapper not present. First page is also detached, has considerable chipping to edges, and has Withdraw stamped across upper portion and 341807 stamped across bottom edge. Some minor chipping to fore-edges of remaining pages...non of which affects the text. This is a very scarce history, by an important scholar of Minnesota history. No less than 12 entries by Neill in USiana, yet this account is not among them.