Minnesota held the fabled " point-a-minute " squad to just one touchdown, but hadn't yet managed to score a touchdown of their own.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

In the course of time, this land was divided among Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.

In addition to the territory of the French province of Canada, the borders were expanded to include land that is now southern Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota.

On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was formed, which included land currently in the state of Minnesota.

It is the largest county by total area in Minnesota, and the second largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River ; in land area alone, after Aroostook County, Maine.

By area, it is the largest county in Minnesota and the largest east of the Mississippi ; by land area, the second largest east of the Mississippi.

The county was the site of historical events at Mendota that defined the state's future, including providing materials for the construction of Fort Snelling across the river and the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux which ceded land from the native Dakota nation for the Minnesota Territory.

Following the published expeditions of explorers, in 1805, Zebulon Pike negotiated for military territory with the Mendota band which included land in Dakota County at the Mississippi River confluences with the Minnesota and St. Croix Rivers.

In land area, it is the largest county in the state and the largest U. S. county by land area east of the Mississippi River ( St. Louis County, Minnesota is larger by total area ).

The Camp sits on of wooded land on North Long Lake north of Brainerd, Minnesota.

Under a mandate of the United States government and after the Ojibway ceded their land in the Treaty of 1837, the Territory of Minnesota was established in 1849.

Later, Sleepy Eye was an integral player in the 1851 signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, which gave all of the land but a 10-mile swath on each side of the upper Minnesota River to the U. S. government.

They could buy land in southern Minnesota for $ 300 –$ 700 an acre-Now 4, 000 + per acre.

After buying the land and platting the town, he was elected to the Minnesota State Legistature, served in several appointed positions and in 1856 was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota as Immigration officer for the 14th District of Minnesota.

The land in Eden Prairie consists of rolling hills and bluffs overlooking the Minnesota River with zones of prairie and mixed ( primarily deciduous ) forests.

It is the second-largest township in total area in Minnesota ( to Angle Township in Lake of the Woods County ), although the Stony River Township and Forest Area Township both have more land area than either ( but much less water area ).

It is the largest township in land area in Minnesota, although Fall Lake Township ( also in Lake County ) and Angle Township ( in Lake of the Woods County ) both have a larger total area because they have more water area.

Marshall was the fifth Governor of Minnesota and he owned land in Marshall Township from 1868 to 1874.

John Sweetman, an Irishman, organized the Irish American Colonization Company in Ireland in 1880, following his trip to Minnesota where he purchased tracts of land from the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company.

In December 1871 the state of Minnesota granted all odd numbered sections of land extending along the proposed right-of-way of the St. Paul & Sioux City Railway Company to that company.

In 1947, while ice fishing in northern Minnesota, he and his wife were thrown into icy northern Minnesota waters by a storm, but he was back out fishing the next day.

: To the lakes of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall

Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

Rather than going to Mexico, Corbett is believed to have settled in a cabin he built in the forests near Hinckley, Minnesota.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

The city is located about north of St. Louis, Missouri, and southeast of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Gustavus Adolphus College, a Lutheran college in St. Peter, Minnesota is also named for the Swedish king.

He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion ( also known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show on United Kingdom's BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as on RTÉ in Ireland, Australia's ABC, and Radio New Zealand National in New Zealand ).

" The University of Minnesota mascot is the gopher, a gofer ( same sound ) is an assistant who " goes for " things, and a gopher burrows through the ground to reach a desired location.

The park is accessible by floatplane and by ferry during the summer months from Grand Portage, Minnesota, and from Houghton and Copper Harbor in Michigan.

* 1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota.

* 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.

* 1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on KARE television in Minnesota when the station's helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.

Kansas City is situated at the junction between the Dakota and Minnesota ice lobes during the maximum late Independence glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch.

Manitoba is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut and Northwest Territories to the north, and the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.

* 1858 – Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U. S. State.

* Minerva is displayed as a statue in the Minneapolis Central Library in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The team was officially named the Minnesota Vikings on September 27, 1960 ; the name is partly meant to reflect Minnesota's place as a center of Scandinavian American culture.

Skol, Vikings is the fight song of the Minnesota Vikings.

* 1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.

The state is bordered by Manitoba and Saskatchewan to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west.

The state shares the Red River of the North with Minnesota on the east ; South Dakota is to the south, Montana is to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are north.

* 1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.