In 1832, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, led by Ozawindib, an Ojibwe guide who knew the upper reaches of the Mississippi River and its headwaters lakes, documented the true source of the river and coined the name "Itasca" from the Latin words "Veritas caput," meaning "true head." More than a half century later, surveyor Jacob V. Brower, later known as the "father of Itasca," began working to establish the area as a state park at a time when much of Minnesota was not yet homesteaded and logging was the state's major industry. Facing strong opposition, Brower fought to preserve the area for future generations, and in 1891 the legislature established 20,000 acres around Lake Itasca as Minnesota's first state park by a one-vote margin. As the first park commissioner, Brower battled poachers, politicians, and lumbermen and only partly succeeded in stopping logging before his death in 1905, but he foresaw the area's future value as a public resort. By the park's centennial, 32,000 acres were protected, more than a half million visitors came each year, and a major pine restoration program was being pursued to preserve giant pines and a diverse northwoods ecosystem into the next century.