Logging continued on non-state land with companies using Lake Itasca as a holding area. That year, a dam outside the park built by the Mississippi Schoolcraft Boom and Improvement Company raised ...

I'm a son of South Dakota, born in Sisseton, which is not far from Veblen. OK. I'm not truly a South Dakotan. My home town is Browns Valley, Minn., barely across the state boundary ten miles east ...

The Mississippi River, about a quarter-mile from its headwaters, appears more like a small creek. (John Snell) Here, people tiptoe over the rocks that separate Lake Itasca from the river, or take ...

Logging continued on non-state land with companies using Lake Itasca as a holding area. That year, a dam outside the park built by the Mississippi Schoolcraft Boom and Improvement Company raised ...