Google map of the Cadotte Post site with overlay of Douglas Birk’s 1972 sketch and an approximation of the location of the survey grid.

Map of Cadotte Post site

Google map of the Cadotte Post site with overlay of Douglas Birk’s 1972 sketch and an approximation of the location of the survey grid. From, Hayes, Katherine. Results of Survey and Excavation of the Little Round Hill (2WD16) and Cadotte Post (21WD17) Sites in Wadena County, Minnesota: A View of the Fur Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century. Report prepared for the Wadena County Historical Society, 2014.

Map of Canada, including parts of present-day Minnesota

Map of Canada, including parts of present-day Minnesota

Map of Canada, including parts of present-day Minnesota, created in Paris by the French cartographer Guillaume De Lisle in 1783. Mapping was a crucial technology for Europeans traveling across the North American continent looking to establish trade routes and relationships.

Map of canoe routes in the Minnesota-Ontario lake region

Map of canoe routes in the Minnesota-Ontario lake region

Map of canoe routes in the Minnesota-Ontario lake region, including those in the Quetico Reserve and the Superior National Forest. Published in Duluth by the Architects and Engineers Supply Company, ca. 1928.

Map of Clay County

Map of Clay County

Map of Clay County (public domain) published by McGill-Warner in 1916. In the nineteenth century, most Buffalo River settler-colonists resided in Moland Township.

Sketch showing the approximate boundaries of the contested zone between the Ojibwe and the Dakota in the late 1700s.

Map of contested zone

Sketch showing the approximate boundaries of the contested zone between the Ojibwe and the Dakota in the late 1700s. Adapted from Douglas A. Birk, “A Preliminary Archaeological Study of the Little Round Hill Site, Old Wadena Park, Wadena County, Minnesota,” 1991.

Map of county parks in Cottonwood County

Map of county parks in Cottonwood County

Map of county parks in Cottonwood County, undated. Talcot Lake Park is at the lower left. Provided by and used with the permission of the Cottonwood County Historical Society.

Map of Embarrass and adjoining townships in central St. Louis County

Map of Embarrass and adjoining townships in central St. Louis County

Map of Embarrass and adjoining townships in central St. Louis County, Minnesota. Wayne Gudmundson, Testaments in Wood: Finnish Log Structures at Embarrass, Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1991), 12.

Color scan of a map of Fort Ripley as surveyed in 1874.

Map of Fort Ripley as surveyed in 1874

Map of Fort Ripley as surveyed in 1874, showing the ninety square miles of reservation land on the east side of the river and one square mile for the actual post on the west side. The sale of parcels on the east side in 1857, and subsequent annulment of the sale, created legal problems that took twenty years to untangle. (From 46 Congress, 2 session, Senate Reports, no. 196, serial 1893.)

This map shows where ginseng is found within the state. The data were gathered from Bell Museum Herbarium records.

Map of ginseng in Minnesota

Map showing where ginseng is found within the state. The data were gathered from the records of the Bell Museum Herbarium.

Map of Gooseberry Falls State Park

Map of Gooseberry Falls State Park

Map of Gooseberry Falls State Park created by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Parks and Recreation in 1964 and revised in 1978. From page 22 of Rolf T. Anderson's National Register of Historic Places nomination form, September 1989, National Archives, Washington, DC.

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