1947 The NORTHWEST ANGLE magazine article, Northern Minnesota

Description: Selling is a 1947 magazine article about: The NORTHWEST ANGLE, Northern Minnesota Title: Men, Moose, and Mink of Northwest Angle Author: William H. Nicholas Quoting the first page “Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, and their British colleagues muffed their geography when they signed the Treaty of Paris at the close of the American Revolution. They thought the source of the Mississippi River was several hundred miles north of its real origin in Lake Itasca. As a result of their misinformation, North-west Angle, Minnesota, is completely cut off from the rest of the State by the waters of Lake of the Woods and is hitched on by land to the Province of Manitoba. The National Geographic Society's new Map of the United States (July, 1946) shows how this area of about 130 square miles juts out north of the long U. S.-Canadian border, which stretches along the 49th parallel. Northwest Angle is an "enclave," in the same sense that Gibraltar, hitched on to Spain by land, is an enclave of Great Britain. Our boundary across Lake of the Woods offered little difficulty to the treaty makers of 1783. They ran the line from its southern to its northwest tip, and everybody was satisfied. But then they decreed that the border should continue "on a due west course to the river Mississippi." Since the river didn't run that far north, such a line was impossible. Not until 1925, nearly a century and a half after the Treaty of Paris, was the boundary here definitely established, although several attempts were made in the meantime on a patchwork-quilt basis. Northwest Angle turned up as part of the United States in 1824 after an accurate survey of the area had been made. Lady Dufferin, wife of one of Canada's early Governors General, wrote: "The Angle is a morsel of the United States mixed up with our land." No roads lead from Manitoba into this wild, wooded area. Unless you go by air, the way to reach Northwest Angle is by boat from the Lake of the Woods port of Warroad, Minnesota. So I boarded the Warroad local at Crookston for a dusty ride across northern Minnesota's flat clay-loam country. It was a warm May day, and the windows of the ornate old coach were wide open. Down in Illinois and Iowa corn had been planted, but here much of the land had just been put to the plow. As we approached Warroad across some swampy ground, a mallard, disturbed by the clatter of the train, frantically took to the air. Scores of red-winged blackbirds rose from the bracken. The veteran conductor looked at his watch. "We're on time," he said proudly. "Warroad, end of the line." The village fronts on Muskeg Bay, which with Big Traverse Bay forms a large sheet of open water separating Minnesota and its Angle Township. Warroad is just a few years removed from pioneer days. Although Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de la Verendrye, French exploreri ascended the Warroad River in 1734, and the American Fur Company had an early trading post at its mouth, the first settlers did not arrive until about 1895. They found Jake Lochland operating a fur station near an Indian village on the north side of the river, close to the bay. Before the white man came, this spot was a terminus of a principal Indian war road, or warpath, of the Northwest-hence its name. The old war road led from the southwest corner of Lake of the Woods to the Roseau River, thence west to the prairies beyond Red River of the North. Bedecked in their war paint, Lac la Pluie Ojibways, Sioux, and possibly Assiniboins took to the warpath here long after the Indian had ceased warlike ways in eastern States. Warroad still has a small Indian community. As a crossroads of immigration, Warroad attracted many nationalities early in this century. I met men whose fathers came from Scandinavia, some by way of the Red River; others whose parents were Yankees arrived from the east by way of Rainy River; still others of French or Middle European descent emigrated from Canada. Warroad still is young country. Third-generation residents are, for the most part, children. The population numbers only 1,300, but 15 families have members in the National Geographic Society. The morning after my arrival the Bert Steele, Booth Fish Company boat, departed for the Angle, and I was aboard. Our ultimate objective was the northernmost post office in the 48 States, on a 50-acre island…” 7” x 10”, 20 pages, 18 B&W photos These are pages from an actual 1947 magazine. 47H6 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. 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