Henry Schoolcraft
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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississi
Photo of Henry Schoolcraft in 1855
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1884 engraving
Lake Itasca
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Lake Itasca is a small glacial lake, approximately 4.7 square kilometres in area. It is located in Itasca State Park, in south-eastern Clearwater County, in the Headwaters area of north-central Minnes
Henry Schoolcraft
…Because they arrived at Cass Lake a month earlier than had the 1820 expedition, the group was able to take advantage of higher water to navigate to Lake Itasca. Ozaawindib successfully led the group to the headwater of the Mississippi, named Omashkoozo-Zaaga’igan or Elk Lake in Ojibwe. Schoolcraft renamed the…
The primary source of the Mississippi River on the edge of Lake Itasca
Rayleigh scattering over Lake Itasca, June 2023
View of Lake Itasca, MN, July 2015