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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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akopeewhohad run the race forhis life when she wasa child, and as shetold the prisoner thestory, his face lightedup with a fiendishglee. According tohis code, he hadavenged the death ofhis father on thosewhite settlers, whosemangled bodies thetroops were even nowshoveling into com-mon burial pits. Itwas during the sameinterval at Fort Snel-ling, one summerday in 64, that shechanced to be on thebastion of the walloverlooking the river.A shrill hoot cameThere goes the first up from the valley. train from Fort Snelling, remarked anofficer. Forty years before, from the bar-of that old racks railing, she had seen the first steam-boat ascendthe Missis-sippi. The villageof St. An-thony becamethe city wenow know asMinneapolis.Here werepassed the lastdays of theDaughter ofthe Regiment,and here herhands as ever,wrought un-ceasing toil forthe commongood. I dontintend tocatalogue thepublicinstitu-tions of whichshe was thefounder, norto relate inci-Mrs. Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve. dents of her
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198 The Outing Magazine life in the new city. Some of these storiesmust not be told till time has softened theedges of conflict; but two incidents illus-trate how she went about her work, orjogged other people up to go about theirs.Mrs. Van Cleve and Mrs. Winchell werethe first women to run for election to theschool board; and the contest was not of amild variety. An insurance agent, forreasons one may guess, was anxious todefeat Mrs. Van Cleve, and canvassedthe slums with a cab to convey voters Cleve requested and requested and re-quested the men to attend to the same;and the men didnt. There was to bebusiness excursion from the Union Stationto advertise Minneapolis as the huvNorthwest. Mrs. Van Cleve had bidedtime. As the train pulled 01tion a lady was to be seen, a lady with ahammer, a lady busy on the nail:,boards of those sidewalks. For a momentthe crowd didnt savey. Then ilaughter went up. It was just Mrs. Van

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