The voyageur is an American icon, but few individual voyageurs’ names have been consigned to history. One name, however, appears in several accounts: Bonga.
Some say old Bemidji home to 40 saloons and eight brothels was a rough and rugged town due to the presence of the lumberjacks. But, didn’t the lumberjacks spend most of the winter in the woods?
The Beltrami County Historical Society will host Bemidji State history professor Dan Allosso as the speaker for its Brown Bag History event at noon on Thursday, Sept. 21, at the History Center.