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Men in park Rapids, Minnesota with large load of logs on sled pulled by a team of four horses, 1895. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Many of Minnesota's newcomers had worked in lumbering out East and came to Minnesota and Wisconsin's forests looking for new wealth.
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