Thoreau writes in his journal:
Ride west [and] north in large elm, bass, ostrya & red oak wood. Negundo there. Rosytinged Rubus triflorus. Pink variety of hop hornbeam—[they] especially make rails of it. How they caught great suckers in a brook Indian fashion . . .
Indian graves in a oak opening on a ridge. Hazel bushes & sage willow beneath. 1st aspen & willow, then elm & ash & at last oak. The large woods I walked in this p.m. were like the wooded region westerner & parallel with the river & very dense or clogged with underwood as are old woods with us.
(Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 10)
Horace Mann Jr. writes to his mother Mary on 1 June:
Yesterday (Friday) we went over to Dr. [Charles L.] Andersons again and we went out west of Minneapolis several miles and I shot two birds, Rosebreasted Grosbeaks, of which I had shot three before, two chipmunks and a gopher, and I would have shot a cart load more if my arms had not been so sore from the old gun kicking.
(Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 50)
