Identifier: riseofnewwest18100turn (find matches)
Title: Rise of the new West, 1819-1829
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932
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Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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1830) THE FAR WEST 115 the upper waters of the Minnesota River on a similarerrand.* An agent who was sent by the govern-ment to investigate the Indian conditions of thisregion in 1820, recommended that the country nowincluded in Wisconsin, northern Michigan, and partof Minnesota should be an Indian reservation,from which white settlements should be excluded,with the idea that ultimately the Indian pop-ulation should be organized as a state of theUnion. The Creeks and Cherokees, Choctaws, and Chicka-saws of the Gulf region were more advanced tow-ards civilization than the Indians of the northwest.While the latter lived chiefly by hunting and trap-ping, the southwestern Indians had developed aconsiderable agriculture and a sedentary life. Forthat very reason, however, they were the moreobnoxious to the pioneers who pressed upon theirterritory from all sides; and, as we shall see, strenu-ous efforts were made to remove them beyond theMississippi. Throughout the decade the problem of the

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