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To: Snowshoe who wrote (70253)	8/25/2008 5:54:25 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

In 1805, Lt. Zebulon Pike led an expedition to the Upper Mississippi country and purchased 100,000 acres of land from the Sioux Indians. Pike's Peak is name after him, but his career was cut short when he died in 1813 during the US invasion of Canada. After the War of 1812, the USA built a chain of forts in the north and west to assert it's claims against the British and Canadians. Fort Snelling was built high on a bluff at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers, on the land purchased earlier by Pike. The project was begun in 1820 by Lt. Col. Henry Leavenworth, who later built Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Construction was completed in 1824 by Colonel Josiah Snelling, and the fort was named in his honor. At that time it was an amazing beacon of civilization, deep in the vast American wilderness... Fort Snelling in 1844, by John Caspar Wild (Minnesota Historical Society) Fort Snelling, Minnesota en.wikipedia.org