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THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN THE
KANDIYOHI REGION AND THEIR
FATE IN THE INDIAN
OUTBREAK
BY
Victor E. Lawson
Editor of Willmar Tribune.
In the Kandiyohi region certain families have enjoyed
a distinction—have constituted a sort of a local
aristocracy among the old settlers—namely those who might
boast that their folks came into the country ((before the
Indian Outbreak.” That tragic break in the peaceful
subjugation of the wilderness caused by the Indians
making desperate attempt to retake by force their old
hunting grounds from the advancing civilization of the
white man, fell as a stunning blow upon these early
settlements and caused their abandonment for a period
of from two to three years, and in some cases
permanently, by the survivors of these families. Small wonder
then that the stirring events of that period should furnish
subject for discussion for years afterwards and that
anyone who had lived through those times would be listened
to with interest as he recounted his experiences to the
settlers who came later to make their homes there.
The large number of Scandinavians among those
whose labor has transformed the heavy woods and raw
prairies of the south-central Minnesota into its present
high state of development testifies most eloquently to
the industry and community-building traits of this race.
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