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This Day in Minnesota History

July 30, 1805

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike receives orders to seek the headwaters of the Mississippi River and to find a location for a fort somewhere on the upper reaches of the river. Pike did not locate the source of the river, but he did choose a site for what became Fort Snelling.

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