ocument No.
56, p. 36; _Post Returns_, May, 1853, in the archives of the War
Department, Washington, D. C.

[123] A brief account of the expedition is given in Paxson's _The Last
American Frontier_, pp. 197-203. The reports of all the surveys were
published by the government. That of Governor Stevens consists of 651
pages, added to the report of the Secretary of War, published in
_Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 33rd Congress, Document No. 91. In
1859 Governor Stevens submitted a _Narrative and Final Report_,
published in two parts in the _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 36th
Congress, Document No. 56. The various reports of all the explorers are
bound in a set of twelve volumes, in which Governor Stevens's first
account may be found in Vol. I, and the later narrative in Vol. XII,
Pts. I and II.

[124] Order No. 7 stated: "It is considered of great consequence that
the several trains should not be intermingled; and the dragoons attached
to the several parties will continue with them, camping and working with
them, receiving their orders only from their particular chiefs, even
when the whole force is brought together."--_Executive Documents_, 2nd
Session, 33rd Congress, Document No. 91, p. 46.

[125] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, Vol. I,
Document No. 2, p. 112.

[126] Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, p. 566.

[127] Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp.
567-570.

[128] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. X, Pt. I, p. 181.

[129] _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I,
Document No. 1, p. 161.

[130] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. I, Document
No. 1, pp. 180-183.

[131] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, July 19, 1849.

[132] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, September 6, 1849, July 11, November 21,
1850.

[133] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. X, Pt. I, pp. 193, 199.

[134] Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp.
588-593.

[135] Holcombe's _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. II, pp. 327, 328;
_Annals of Iowa_ (First Series), Vol. VII, p. 290; _Post Returns_,
March, April, 1853, in the archives of the War Department, Washington,
D. C.

[136] For Colonel Smith's expedition see above, Note 109. For the
building of Fort Abercrombie see the _Collections of the State
Historical Society of North Dakota_, Vol. II, Pt. II, p. 7.

[137] _Reports of Committees_, 1st Session, 35th Congress