Fifty Years In The Northwest by William H. C. Folsom

Description

Folsom arrived in the 1840s as a surveyor and land agent in the country between the Mississippi and Lake Superior, and he stayed to see towns, railroads, and farms where only trails had been. His narrative mixes personal memory with the records of the region’s earliest settlers, its businesses, its Indian treaties, and its disasters, giving an unpretentious and invaluable account of how the Northwest was actually won.

For anyone interested in the real texture of frontier life, the book is a treasure. Folsom records names, dates, prices, and crops as a working man would, and the result is a document of the old Northwest that later historians have leaned on ever since.

Why readers still come back to it

• An eyewitness account of settling the upper Mississippi country.
• Rich in pioneer detail — names, dates, prices, and everyday life.
• Essential source material for American frontier history.

About this DodaBooks edition

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