Steamboat Northern Belle at Wabasha
This file appears in: Robert Thomas Hickman
Date: Approximately 1865
Image courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society
This file appears in: Robert Thomas Hickman
Robert Thomas Hickman
(1831-1900)
When the steamboat Northern arrived in 1863 carrying labor and equipment to defuse a Dakota Indian uprising, it also towed a raft of 76 ex-slaves that had been found drifting. The…