Author: Richard S. ProsserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Rails to the North Star
Author: Richard S. ProsserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Rails to the North Star
Author: Richard S. ProsserPublisher: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Herit
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published by Dillon Press in 1966.
Rails to the North Star
Author: Richard ProsserThe North Star State
Author: Anne J. AbyPublisher: 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.
Rails Over the Mountains
Author: Ron BrownPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459733584
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Explore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to the creative engineering that created spiral bridges and soaring trestles. Relive this time through a trip on one of the many steam trains, visit a railway museum, or walk the trails where trains used to rumble.
Minnesota Treasures
Author: Denis GardnerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514712
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Extended essays and four-color photos highlight 75 buildings and sites on Minnesota's National Register of Historic Places, from the grand and polished to the simple and unadorned.
North Star Country
Author: Milton C. SernettPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629153
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.
Rails to the North Star
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816654024
Category : Electric railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Great Northern Railway
Author: Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452907102
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Written by historians at Harvard Business School, Mississippi State U., and St. Cloud State U. (Minn.), this history details the development and day- to-day affairs of this powerful business, and the careers of the main figures instrumental in its operation. This definitive work, first published by
North Star
Author: John FirthPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039194346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
“He was a man who had a purpose when he came among our people. He was very gentle with his purpose. He had a vision. He saw we had something that nobody else did. He gave us gifts which we remember to this day and still use. He changed us. He changed us for the better.” —Raymond Yakeleya, residential school survivor, filmmaker, Dene Elder Alone one winter night in a log cabin in the late 1940s, Jean-Marie Mouchet was waiting for his water to boil and started thinking about why he was there and how he could make a difference that mattered. He was a Catholic missionary in Canada’s North and could see the negative effect the Europeans were having on the Indigenous population. Wanting to do something about it, he resolved to help Indigenous youth reconnect with the land and their traditional values yet provide them with a means to adapt to the social and cultural change that was on the horizon. He started something simple – a skiing program. The individual and snow in harmony. Jean-Marie’s Territorial Experimental Ski Training (TEST) program yielded multiple Olympians, made cross-country skiing the fastest-growing winter sport in Canada, and placed both Northern and Canadian skiers on the cross-country skiing world stage. Over the next 60 years it also produced many leaders who helped guide Northern First Nations into the 21st Century and is credited with saving the lives of many residential school survivors. Firth paints a comprehensive and grounded portrait of the man behind the legacy, all upon a backdrop of a Northern landscape in the midst of transition that will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian and Indigenous history.