Excerpt from The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7: With a New and Accurate MapTO place this information within the reach of all who may be directing their attention to this Territory, he has decided to condense this information into as brief space as possible, thus giving it to the public in the form of this Handbook, to be revised from year to year, intending as soon as practicable to place before the public a larger and more extensive work on Minnesota.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.