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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (22821)	8/18/2002 4:07:07 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Where I grew up a bit further east there was quite a bit of contract growing of peas and corn for the Jolly Green Giant. Also field corn, soybeans, and dairying. 1855 and 1869 was early in the movement to western Minnesota. Fort Snelling was busy during the late 1850's and 1860's. <g> The Treaty of Traverse de Sioux was ratified in 1852, I think. Then it took a few years to survey the land, but immigration was well underway in the mid to late 1850s. The first settlers during this period generally settled the fertile bottom land with plenty of water and timber. It took folks a while to figure out that the open prairie was also habitable. My great-grandfather had the contract to deliver the mail to Fort Ridgely in the summer of 1862. When the Dakota conflict erupted in August his family hastily gathered up a few belongings in a table-cloth and fled out across the prairie in a wagon with their farm burning behind them in the night. Later he helped transport the white captives from Camp Release. But western Minnesota was depopulated for 5-6 years till things settled down. Later they were the first settlers to take up land along a pretty stream in a county on the South Dakota border, which was subsequently invaded by a horde of ... Norwegians. <g> our 14 year olds today could never do what these immigrants did. I dunno, people of that age are still young enough to learn how to swing an axe or sew a quilt by hand. But our thirty-somethings would sure have trouble!