FRANCES DENSMORE
Apr 21, 2020
3 minutes
By Jeff Williams
the first settlers in Red Wing, Minnesota, a small settlement along a far northern stretch of the Mississippi River, where Native Americans and westward-moving pioneers were essentially living side by side. As a young girl, their daughter Frances would lie awake in bed in her family’s frontier cabin, listening to the beating drums of the Dakota tribe from a nearby island. As the rhythmic sounds drifted across the quiet waters into her moonlit
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