United States (nation) -- Minnesota (state) -- Blue Earth (county) -- Mankato (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Located on Minnesota river; infamous as site where Sioux Indians were tried & hanged for massacre of nearly 800 settlers & soldiers in 1862; name is derived from Sioux word for blue clay found on riverbanks.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mankato Armory Records
Collection
Identifier: Mss 6-PH 20
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises of Minnesota National Guard records that originated from the armory in Mankato, Minnesota these include the administrative records used by the headquarters of the 205th Infantry Regiment and the second battalion headquarters of the 135th Infantry Regiment. In addition to these units this collection also includes the records of armories that historically housed other units of the
135th Infantry Regiment that were based primarily in southern Minnesota, Correspondence...
Dates:
1898 - 2001
Quane, Oliver papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 16
Scope and Contents
The collection contains two folders. The first folder contains the original typewritten pages of Oliver Quane’s diary. The second folder contains Quane’s great granddaughter’s typed transcriptions of the diary, an article from the St. Peter Free Press on his promotion, and Oliver Quane’s 1936 obituary in the American Falls Press.
Dates:
1916 June 30 - 1936 December 10