The Transition of a Typical Frontier, With Illustrations From the Life of Henry Hastings Sibley
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. . . The population of the county is now (1855) estimated at from 4,000 to 5,000." Minnesota Year Book, 1855, p. 27. 124 TRANSITION OF A TYPICAL FRONTIER each year and by 1857 most of the land in the Minnesota river valley and south to the Iowa line was pretty well settled.^" Land sales increased each year up to 1855 and then decreased until the Panic of 1857 when they became very small. During the decade, 1850-1860, some 1,812,196 acres of land were sold in Minnesota at an average price of $1....27 per acre. The first wheat shipped from Minnesota was in 1857 and some flour may have been sent out as early as 1858." The city at the Falls of St. Anthony was, of course, destined to be the great "flour city" of the world, but this development did not come for many years after the decade under consideration. It was lumber mills, rather than flour mills, that caused the early growth of Minneapolis. Minnesota made the transition to agriculture during this decade" and wheat and flour increased in importance as the years went by.
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