The North West Company’s fur post on the Snake River. The historic site, administered by the Minnesota Historical Society, is a recreation of the trading post that operated here over in 1804 and 1805. The voyageurs who serviced it (and others in the St. Croix River basin), paddled and portaged a route from Lake Superior, up the Bois Brule River, down the Namekagon River, and into the St. Croix. Photo by Jon Lurie, 2020.

Snow blockade, Southern Minnesota Division, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, March 29, 1881.

Interior of the bar inside Snowbank Lodge on Snowbank Lake in the Vermilion Range, ca. 1965.

Snowmobiling in the Westbrook area related to a fundraising drive for Schmidt Hospital. Printed in the Westbrook Sentinel Tribune, 1975. Snowmobilers raised $5,000 in that year.