A Popular History Of Minnesota
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Author |
: Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873515323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873515320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Popular History of Minnesota by : Norman K. Risjord
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author |
: Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2009-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780873516914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0873516915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Popular History of Minnesota by : Norman K. Risjord
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author |
: Anne J. Aby |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages |
: 518 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873514440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873514446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The North Star State by : Anne J. Aby
Culled from the best of Minnesota History magazine, these essays on 200 years of Minnesota history encompass a wide range of its past, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of a Chinese family in St. Paul, from lumber workers' and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.
Author |
: Annette Atkins |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 484 |
Release |
: 2009-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780873516648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0873516648 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating Minnesota by : Annette Atkins
Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
Author |
: Roy Willard Meyer |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873512669 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873512664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyone's Country Estate by : Roy Willard Meyer
In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.
Author |
: Kenneth Carley |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2006-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873515641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873515641 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minnesota in the Civil War by : Kenneth Carley
This lavishly illustrated, richly detailed book presents for the first time a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's involvement in the Civil War.
Author |
: Karal Ann Marling |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780873512527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0873512529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blue Ribbon by : Karal Ann Marling
Covers everything from prize animals to fair architecture to speeches to Pronto Pups.
Author |
: Elizabeth Johanneck |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 2010-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781614231950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1614231958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hidden History of the Minnesota River Valley by : Elizabeth Johanneck
Traveled by mammoth-hunters and motorcyclists alike, the Minnesota River Valley shows the traces of a unique legacy: where else are you going to find a political party with ideals based on honest conversation and gymnastics? Not all of it is as lovely as the natural scenery it accompaniesMankato was the site of the largest mass execution in United States historybut its heritage demands contemplation. Discover the valleys most enterprising characters, from Fort Snelling bootleggers like Pierre Pigs Eye Parrant to the Granite Falls lawyer behind Prohibition, Andrew Volstead. With a guide like Johanneck, you might meet some familiar figures in surprising circumstances as she steals up behind Dr. Mayo at the grave he was robbing for medical research or catches FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in a moment of unguarded correspondence.
Author |
: Kathryn Strand Koutsky |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924107125290 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minnesota State Fair by : Kathryn Strand Koutsky
Enhanced by more than twelve hundred photographs, a history of the Minnesota State Fair includes recipes from 4-H groups, food stands, and blue ribbon-winning contestants.
Author |
: Norman K. Risjord |
Publisher |
: Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0873515900 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780873515900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shining Big Sea Water by : Norman K. Risjord
In Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries and into the lives of those who have traveled the lake and inhabited its shores. Through lively, informative chapters, Risjord begins with the lake's cataclysmic geological birth, then explores the lives of native peoples along the shore before European contact and during the fur trade, showing how Superior functioned as a "blue-water highway" for Indians, early explorers, industries, and settlers. He outlines the development of such cities as Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; Ashland, Wisconsin; and Two Harbors, Minnesota, and tells the fascinating histories of life-saving lighthouses and famous shipwrecks. In the final chapter, Risjord looks to the future, offering a clear-eyed account of the environmental and economic challenges faced by America's largest freshwater lake. Interspersed throughout the book are handy tips for travelers, highlighting historically significant sites that illustrate key pieces of Lake Superior's natural and human history, including national lakeshores in the United States and provincial parks in Canada. Norman K. Risjord is the author of several books, including A Popular History of Minnesota and Wisconsin: The Story of the Badger State. He is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.