Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
A Popular History of Minnesota
Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
A History of Minnesota
Author: William Watts Folwell
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.
Creating Minnesota
Author: Annette Atkins
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Minnesota
Author: William E. Lass
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393046281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A history of Minnesota from before the Europeans arrived to the present, highlighting the influence of farming, industry, railroads, politics, economy, and wars
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393046281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
A history of Minnesota from before the Europeans arrived to the present, highlighting the influence of farming, industry, railroads, politics, economy, and wars
Minnesota Book of Days
Author: Tony Greiner; Howard Mohr
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
Minnesota: A History (Second Edition) (States and the Nation)
Author: William E. Lass
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable. In this volume, William Lass tells the story of Minnesota, a state that evolved from many cultures, from its beginnings to the present. This history not only provides descriptions of the essential events of Minnesota's past but also offers an interpretation of major trends and characteristics of the state and its distinctiveness within the context of the nation's story.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable. In this volume, William Lass tells the story of Minnesota, a state that evolved from many cultures, from its beginnings to the present. This history not only provides descriptions of the essential events of Minnesota's past but also offers an interpretation of major trends and characteristics of the state and its distinctiveness within the context of the nation's story.
The North Star State
Author: Anne J. Aby
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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.
Everyone's Country Estate
Author: Roy Willard Meyer
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873512664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873512664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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.
St. Paul
Author: Bill Lindeke
Publisher: Urban Biography
ISBN: 9781681342009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.
Publisher: Urban Biography
ISBN: 9781681342009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota's capitol city.
Mni Sota Makoce
Author: Gwen Westerman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.