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Title: 'Three Score Years and Ten'
Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other
Parts of the West

Author: Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve

Release Date: December 30, 2006 [EBook #20232]

Language: English

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Three Score Years
and Ten.

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"THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN,"

LIFE-LONG MEMORIES

OF

_FORT SNELLING, MINNESOTA_,

AND

OTHER PARTS OF THE WEST,

BY

CHARLOTTE OUISCONSIN VAN CLEVE.

1888.

COPYRIGHTED 1888.

PRINTING HOUSE

HARRISON & SMITH,
257 AND 259 FIRST AVENUE SOUTH,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

_DEDICATION._

"_To the husband of my youth, by whose side I have journeyed more than
half a century, and whose tender love has brightened my whole life,
this book is dedicated._"

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA,

_515 Portland Avenue_.

March 14, 1888.

MY DEAR MRS. VAN CLEVE:

_Whenever there is growth in any community the desire arises to know
something of what was in the beginning. It was with no weariness I
read in manuscript the "Reminiscences" from your pen. Each chapter
contains something in connection with the dawn of civilization in the
west, which is worthy of being preserved. The incidents related are
stirring, and the style is graphic. When I finished the perusal I felt
the force of the adage, that "Truth is Stranger than Fiction." As the
diary of John Evelyn, throwing light upon the days of Charles the
Second, is still read, so I think, if printed, your unaffected
narrative will always find a place in the private and public libraries
of Minnesota and the Western States._

_Believe me_,

_Sincerely_,

EDWARD D. NEILL.

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