Whetstone River

The Whetstone River is a 12.7-mile-long (20.4 km) tributary of the Minnesota River in northeastern South Dakota and a very small portion of western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

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    “The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
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