Minnesota Year Book, 1851- [1855]. Published by W. G. LeDuc (St. Paul, Minnesota Territory). Approximately 50 p. Contents include boundaries of the
Territory, history, government, census data, principal settlements, Indian tribes, religious statistics and clergy, miscellaneous statistics and
chronology, tourist destinations, natural resources, a table of distances from St. Paul. Description is for 1851 volume. At time of writeup, available
volumes were for 1851 and 1852. (From the Preface: “The Editor … has undertaken to publish, from year to year, a small volume, which he hopes to make
acceptable to the Inhabitants of Minnesota and others, by an Almanac calculated for the latitude of St. Paul and Pembina; by a record of the important
occurrences during the year; by such statistics as may be necessary to elucidate our history … and by offering a Traveller’s Guide to the numerous persons
who visit.”)
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