Trade Card No. 26 from the Arbuckle Coffee Company. "One of a series of 50 cards giving a pictorial history of the United States and Territories". This is a unique and wonderfully illustrated card. On the reverse of the card are a few advertising words for Arbuckle Coffee plus a short history on the state of Minnesota. Chromolithographie Chromolithography out of a scrapbook, 1892, 0,3 x 0,5 inch/76 x 127 mm. The card has corner wear. Illustrations are bright and clean.

THE aborigines of Minnesota were the Chippewas, occupying more than half the State in its forest and lake region, and the Dakotas (latterly called Sioux) roaming over the open prairies.
The first white visitors who came to this region were French fur-traders, who came hither as early as 1659. They were followed by missionary priests. In 1680 Father Hennepin and two French traders ascended the Mississippi to St. Anthony's Falls. In 1688 Perrot founded on Lake Pepin the first French establishment in Minnesota. After France surrendered its vast American empire to Great Britain, an adventurous Connecticut man, Jonathan Carver, ascended the Mississippi to the falls (in 1776) and sojourned among the Dakotas on the Minnesota River. The first United States officer to visit Minnesota was Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike, who came hither in 1805 to expel the lingering British traders. The country remained in the hands of the fur-traders and the Indians until 1820, when Colonel Leavenworth built Fort Snelling and Gov. Lewis Cass and Henry R. Schoolcraft explored the valley. Three years later the first steamboat ascended the Mississippi into Minnesota, and Major Long's detachment explored the Minnesota valley to Big Stone Lake. In 1831 the Rev Wm. T Boutwell opened a mission among the Chippewas. In 1836-37 the region of St. Paul received its first settlers, a group of Swiss colonists. In those days there were myriads of buffalo in Minnesota. The Falls of Minnehaha, made forever famous by Longfellow's "Hiawatha" song, are near Fort Snelling. Minnesota has the largest flour mills in the world.
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