Note 127 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 3)

For Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake, see Franchère’s Narrative, notes 201, 204.

The maps of Evans’s period represent White Bear Lake as the source of the Mississippi, and Red or Mississagan Lake as the origin of Red River of the North. The latter retains its name. The former is probably that now known as Leech Lake.—Ed.