] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt. 2,
Document No. 5, pp. 1028, 1029; _The Minnesota Pioneer_, September 13,
1849.

[100] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, November 28, December 12, 1849.

[101] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol. II, Pt. 3,
Document No. 2, p. 421. "The recent arrival at Fort Snelling of a
company of dragoons, so long wanted, will greatly assist in intercepting
the migration southward of this discontented people."--Report of
Alexander Ramsey, October 21, 1850, in _Senate Documents_, 2nd Session,
31st Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 81.

[102] This reservation was agreed upon by the treaty concluded at
Washington, D. C., on February 27, 1855; Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws
and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 690-693.

[103] _Senate Documents_, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, Vol. I, Document
No. 1, pp. 316, 423.

[104] Bryce's _The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company_, pp.
365-372. A description of a hunt, written in French by Rev. M. Belcourt,
is given in _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol.
VIII, Document No. 51, pp. 44-52.

[105] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. VIII,
Document No. 51, p. 4.

[106] This was during the period that Professor William A. Dunning
describes as "The Roaring Forties". "And the far flung interests of the
British Empire need no more striking illustration than the fact that in
whatever direction the Americans sought to expand their bounds, whether
on the Atlantic or on the Pacific, in the Gulf of the tropics or under
the Arctic circle, they found subjects of the Queen, with vested rights,
opposing the movement."--Dunning's _The British Empire and the United
States_, pp. 96, 97.

[107] Captain Sumner's report is printed in the _Executive Documents_,
1st Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 2, pp. 217-220. It is
reprinted with explanatory notes in _The Iowa Journal of History and
Politics_, Vol. XI, pp. 258-267.

[108] The report of Major Woods is printed in _Executive Documents_, 1st
Session, 31st Congress, Vol. VIII, Document No. 51. It contains
fifty-five pages. Accompanying the expedition was John Pope, Brevet
Captain of the Topographical Engineers. His report is published
in _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. X, Document No.
42. There is an excellent map attached to the report.

[109] Colonel Smith's report is printed in the _Executive Documents_,
2