Book Description
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
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2009-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0873516915
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
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515320
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 : Borealis Book
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
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
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873514446
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
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873516648
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 : Kathryn Strand Koutsky
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780873514521
A virtual romp through Minnesota's dining spots, this rich history also features a priceless collection of recipes for dishes made famous through the years. 1,000 illustrations, many in color.
Author : Elizabeth Johanneck
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1614231958
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 : Kenneth Carley
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515641
This lavishly illustrated, richly detailed book presents for the first time a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's involvement in the Civil War.
Author : Kate Roberts
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873515948
A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.
Author : Roy Willard Meyer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873512664
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.