340    LITERATURE   OF   LOUISIANA   TERRITORY.
twice in his life, I am told; but the best infor-
mation I can obtain, leads to the belief that he
was never a resident of Minnesota, but went
there, for a few months at a time, for his health.
J. F. Williams is the author of a " History of
the City of St. Paul and Ramsey County, Minne-
sota " (St. Paul, 1876), and T. H. Kirk of the
" History of Minnesota " (St. Paul, 1887).
J. W. Bond told of " Minnesota and its Re-
sources, to which is added Campfire Sketches "
(New York, 1853), and Doctor Brewer Mattock
advocated " Minnesota as a Home for Invalids "
(Philadelphia, 1871).
Honorable M. K. Armstrong, a pioneer Da-
kota Congressman, recently narrated the lives
and achievements of " The Early Empire Build-
ers of the Great West " (St. Paul, 1901).
Isaac V. D. Heard, a well-known member of
the St. Paul Bar in the seventies and eighties,
wrote the " History of the Sioux War and
Massacres of 1862 and 1863" (New York,
1863). Mr. Heard served as a volunteer in
General Sibley's command. His book is very
interesting.    I believe he is dead.
H. E. B. McConkey covered the same ground
in his " Dakota War-Whoop; or, Indian Massa-
cres and War in Minnesota of 1862-63" (St.
Paul, 1864).
Lily A. Long has published two novels, " A
Squire of Low Degree " and " Apprentices to
Destiny ",  both issued  from  St.   Paul.    Miss