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This Day in Minnesota History

January 15, 1851

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Artist Frank Blackwell Mayer arrives in St. Paul from Baltimore to make drawings of the pending treaty negotiations at Traverse des Sioux. These drawings and his diary, published as With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in 1851, provide a valuable record of frontier and Native American life.

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First published: July 1, 2015
Last modified: June 15, 2018