A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota: Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History; As Embraced in the Mineral Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also Including a Large Amount of Valuabl

Excerpt from A Pioneer History of Becker County Minnesota: Including a Brief Account of Its Natural History; As Embraced in the Mineral Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms and a History of the Early Settlement of the County; Also Including a Large Amount of Valuable Historical Information Collected<br><br>As many of the people of our county well remember Mrs. Jessie C. West of Detroit had for several years before her death been gathering material for a history of Becker County and had collected quite a large amount of valuable historical information. Her papers have since been placed in my hands and from them I have selected a large number of articles and items which I at first intended to give a separate place in my book by inserting them all together by themselves; but after a further examination of the various articles I decided that they would be better appreciated and would add more to the interest of the work and would be more interesting in and of themselves if they were distributed throughout the work where they would naturally fit in and connect with the various subjects of a kindred nature with themselves.<br><br>In order to give her due credit for all the articles used be longing to her collection I have placed her name under the lower right - hand corner of all articles written by herself and where they were compiled by her or furnished her by some one else I have placed the name of the author under the lower right-hand corner of the article and have placed Mrs. West''s name under the left lower corner of the same article.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.