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Laughing Water
THE LADIES' REPOSITORY. vol. 21, iss. 10; October 1861
In which: the name is explained, sort of

A view looking south. There is not a lot of water over the falls in this scene, and beyond the falls to the south is some unidentified hillock, of pile of dirt or I don't know what.

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A few miles above Fort Snelling is the celebrated water-fall-Minnehaha. The Indians certainly knew the appropriate use of terms . Hence the term Niagara, or "thundering water," and Minne-ha-ha, or "laughing water." Nothing could better describe this fall. A slight, silvery sheet darts out over a shelving ledge and leaps down, laughing as it goes. An excellent view of the "Falls of Minnehaha" appeared in our November issue for 1860.

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