Download or read book A Capital Place written by David Laursen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Capital Place is how the author remembers Minnesota's historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century capital of the Ojibwe Nation, strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superior- and route followed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota history.