I am an independent historian focusing on the second quarter of the 19th century in Minnesota and Wisconsin in Ojibwe country. I live just outside St. Paul, Minnesota. I hope to complete a book about the Ojibwe missions of Elisabeth and Frederic Ayer. As a child, I spent summers at Pokegama Lake in Pine County, one of the sites of an Ayer mission.

I am an independent historian focusing on the second quarter of the 19th century in Minnesota and Wisconsin in Ojibwe country. I live just outside St. Paul, Minnesota. I hope to complete a book about the Ojibwe missions of Elisabeth and Frederic Ayer. As a child, I spent summers at Pokegama Lake in Pine County, one of the sites of an Ayer mission.