Keywords: Casper wild.jpg Fort Snelling in the background; Pike Island in the middle; the settlement of Mendota in the left foreground Cropped image of original http //collections mnhs org/visualresources/image cfm imageid 142918 Original Image from The http //www mnhs org Minnesota Historical Society<br /> Location no AV1988 45 348 Negative no 276 1844 Artwork by John Casper Wild 1804-1846 PD-old-100 Fort Snelling Mendota Minnesota Art of Minnesota Mississippi River in art Paintings of rivers 1844 paintings Minnesota in the 1840s |