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Water from the Red River and Wild Rice River had surrounded his home, but dikes had held so far.
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We reached the mouth of the Wild Rice River at evening, and pushed up through the reeds in the darkness.
Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith
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Our damaged boats repaired and preparations completed for three weeks 'absence from civilization, we set out near mid-day of Saturday for the march to Wild Rice River, eighteen miles.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Our day's journey terminated, in a driving rainstorm, on the banks of Wild Rice River, where are a trading-store, the cabin of the trader and a neat chapel of the
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Through and over this green and productive sea we paddled about four miles to the mouth of Wild Rice River, which flows out of Upper Wild
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Wild Rice River where the Malhominis had their home.
Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith
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Cross Bois des Sioux River; seventy feet wide, four to seven feet deep; muddy bottom; steep and miry banks; goods boated over; wagons hauled through, light, with ropes; bad crossing, but passable; smooth flat prairie, as on the east side of Bois des Sioux, occasionally interrupted with open sloughs to Wild Rice River, and camp with wood, water, and abundant grass.
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Cross Bois des Sioux River; seventy feet wide, four to seven feet deep; muddy bottom; steep and miry banks; goods boated over; wagons hauled through, light, with ropes; bad crossing, but passable; smooth flat prairie, as on the east side of Bois des Sioux, occasionally interrupted with open sloughs to Wild Rice River, and camp with wood, water, and abundant grass.
Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands, Christopher Columbus 1857
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As the Wild Rice River crest moves through Twin Valley and Ada, Minn., flood fighters are watching for overland flooding and turning some of their attention to points where the tributaries meet the rising Red River.
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As the Wild Rice River crest moves through Twin Valley and Ada, Minn., flood fighters are watching for overland flooding and turning some of their attention to points where the tributaries meet the rising Red River.
hernesheir commented on the word Wild Rice River
Two rivers are named the Wild Rice River in the United States. One is in North Dakota; the other is in Minnesota. Both are tributaries of the Red River that is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay, Canada.
February 8, 2010