THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
Vol. XL APRIL, 1893. No. 4 
VESTIGES OF EARLY MAN IN MINNESOTA. 
By W. II. Holmes, Washington, D. C. 
Of the A'arious sites reputed to have furnished evidence of the 
former presence of glacial man in America, Trenton, New Jersey, 
has always taken precedence and is still the focal point of in- 
terest to students of the question. Next in importance, so far 
as the literature of the subject indicates, is the site at Little 
Falls, Minnesota. Observations began at Trenton about the year 
1885, and a very considerable number of finds were reported, and 
the case in favor of a paleolithic gravel man was well formulated 
before tlie late Miss Franc E. Babbitt made her report upon the 
discovery of specimens of rudely flaked quartzes in the village. of 
Little Falls. Attention had been called to the Minnesota site, 
however, before Trenton came into notice, by professor N. H. 
Winchell, state geologist of Minnesota, to whom belongs the 
credit of the discovery of relics of human handicraft in Little 
Falls as well as the credit of accurate and complete observation 
of the occurrence of objects of flaked quartz in the superficial 
glacial deposits. In the year 1877, in making a rcconnoissance 
of Morrison county he spent several days in the vicinity and made 
the interesting observations recorded in the following paragraphs 
quoted from the sixth annual report of the state survey. In 
looking for evidence of what was known as -'Pike's Stockade," 
