Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (born 1779)

Giacomo Beltrami

Italian explorer (1779–1855)

Giacomo Costantino Beltrami was an Italian jurist, author, and explorer, known for claiming to have discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1823 while on a trip through much of the United States. In Minnesota, Beltrami and Beltrami County are named for him. He had…