Friday, May 24 to Sunday, May 26, 1861: Travel up the Mississippi
River on the steamboat Itasca.
According to Thoreau and Mann's notes, they first crossed over to Dubuque,
Iowa, from Dunleith, Illinois. They reached Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, by 5 p.m. on Friday.
On
Saturday, they continued up the river. They were at Brownsville,
Minnesota, in the early morning hours. They entered Lake Pepin around
4 p.m. and got to Red Wing, Minnesota, around 7:30 p.m.
They
reached St. Paul, Minnesota, at 2 or 3 a.m. on Sunday. Thoreau and
Mann went to the American House in St. Paul for breakfast, before they took
the stagecoach to St. Anthony and eventually checked into the Tremont House.
The Tremont House stood at
the corner of Main and Pine Streets in St. Anthony. [It burned down in
1873. Today the complex known as St. Anthony Main includes its former
footprint.]
