"Then you offer me no hope, Doctor?

This volume of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society is devoted to a historical discussion by Jacob Vredenberg Brower (1844-1905) about the source and headwaters of the Mississippi River, combined with his extensive ...

Scott Kaufman carefully examines, and places into both an American and an international context, the origins and the resolution of this tense stand-off over contested colonial territory.

After three years, the field work has to be rushed to a finish because Congress would approve no more appropriations now the Civil War had started.

The book is an excellent travel companion to anyone visiting the San Juans and the original American and British camps that are open to the public.