JENKS] WILD-RICE RIVERS 1121 
Mennomomi.’ In 1850a Menomin Lake was shown on Fox river imme- 
diately below the present Moundsville, at the upper end of Buffalo 
lake.” 
Menominie river, probably the present Wolf river in eastern Wis- 
consin, was shown on a map in 1836.° 
The present Little Eau Plaine river, a tributary of the Wolf river 
between Marathon and Portage counties, Wisconsin, was once known 
as Ma-no-min a-kung-a-kauy Se-be or Rice Stalks viver.* It also flows 
through a Rice Lake. 
Between 47° and 48° north latitude a river flows from the east into 
the Red river of the North which has been noted for more than one 
hundred years for its production of wild rice. On recent maps it is 
known as Wild Rice River. This river also has a large tributary 
ralled South Branch Wild Rice River, which in 1836 was said to drain 
Lake la Folle Avoine between Ottertail lake and the sources of the 
Crowing (Crow Wing) river.’ In 1885 Bell wrote’ that at one time 
the Wild Rice river was known as the Jenomone, and also as the Pse 
river. In the years 1861, 1848, and 1843 the river was called Manomin 
or Wild Rice River.” On map of 1857 this stream was called Mamonia 
River. In 1836 it was known as la Folle Avoine.* In 1822 Dr Morse 
valled it Wild Oats Cr.,'° while Beltrami in 1828 wrote it W7/d Oats 
river." According toa mapot 1816, Wild Oats Cr[eek| and Rice Straw 
Cr\eek| both discharge into Red river of the North from the east, 
between 47° and 48° north latitude. It is quite probable that these 
refer to the Wild Rice River and South Branch Wild Rice River, as 
these two streams join not far from where their waters enter the Red 
river of the North. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the 
stream was called 27ce Straw river, and immediately north of it is 
a Wild Rice viver which flows into Red Lake river, which, in turn, 
empties into the Red river of the North. This W7/d Rice river last 
spoken of is probably the Clear Water river rising in Mitcha or Big 
Boulder lake on Mitchell’s map. 
Another historic wild rice producing river flows into the Red river 
ot the North. This second one discharges near Fargo, North Dakota, 

1 The Tourists Pocket Map of Michigan, Mitchell (Philadelphia, 1836). 
2 Map, The State of Wisconsin, Lapham (Milwaukee, 1850). 
3 Farmer, Map of the Territories of Michigan and Wisconsin, 1836. 
4 Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. 1, p. 120. 
5 Map of the Territory of Wisconsin, by Burr, 1836. 
6Chas. N. Bell, Historical Names and Places, in Trans., Manitoba Hist. and Sei. Soc., vol. xvi, 
1884-85, p. 5 (Winnipeg, 1885). 
7 Map of the United States of North America, supplement to Illustrated London News (June 1, 
1861); map, United States of North America, by Sherman & Smith (New York, 1848); map, Hydro- 
graphical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River, Nicollet, 1843. 
8 A New and Complete Railroad Map of the United States, Wm. Perris (New York [1857]). 
®° Map of the Territory of Wisconsin, by Burr, 1836. 
10 Map with Morse’s Report. 
1 Beltrami, Pilgrimage, vol. 1. See map of Mississippi river. 
12The second section of the map entitled ‘‘ London, A. Arrowsmith, January 1, 1796. Additions 
1802.” . 

