[PDF] All About Minnesota eBook

Author : Bandana Ojha
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2020-05-11
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Filled with up-to-date information, color photos, fascinating & fun facts this book " All About Minnesota: 100+ Fascinating Fun Facts & Trivia" is the best book for kids as well as the entire family to find out more about the North Star State. This book would satisfy the children's curiosity and help them to understand why Minnesota is special-and what makes it different from other States. This book gives a story, history, the state symbols, how MN got her name, why it is called bread & butter State, and land of 10,000 lakes. It is a fun way for young readers to find out more interesting and fun facts of the Gopher State. This is a great chance for every kid as well as the entire family to expand their knowledge about one of the best-educated and wealthiest state in the nation and impress their friends with all "discovered and never knew before" amazing and interesting fun facts.

Author : Norman K. Risjord
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873515320

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A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.

Author : Annette Atkins
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873516648

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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 : Berit Thorkelson, Roxanne Kjarum
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
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Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781610604642

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Only in Minnesota is a pictorial tribute to all that makes the state unique. Combining the natural, historical, and cultural facets of life in Minnesota, it showcases the people and what they do for fun (the Uptown Art Fair, ice fishing), where they live (from the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and Rochester to smaller towns and rural regions in between), their favorite places (Mille Lacs, Split Rock Lighthouse), and more. More than 160 dazzling, four-color photographs, showing a variety of subjects--from farms and churches to tourist destinations and state parks; from nature scenes to city festivals and cultural events--are the focus of Only in Minnesota. These photographs are accented by lively captions and fun facts. The result is a homage to the Gopher state from a local author and photographer whose love for Minnesota comes through on every page. Roxanne Kjarum is a freelance photographer who shoots advertising for money and the natural world for love. Her first published work was in Sierra Club magazine in 1988; since then her photography has appeared in numerous publications, including MPLS.ST.PAUL Magazine, Lake Superior Magazine, and Metropolitan Home.

Author : Kate Roberts
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873515948

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A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.

Author : Gwen Westerman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0873518837

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An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.

Author : Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780873514699

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This guide is an essential tool for all genealogists researching Minnesota family, local, and state history. Highlighting the many holdings of the society, this unique handbook features a lengthy, annotated listing of resources in subject areas such as: biographical, census, naturalization, cemetery, school, religious, business, court, government, legal, military, and veterans' records; official state-wide death records and index, 1908-96; photographs, personal papers, oral histories, ethnic resources, and local and county histories; family histories, newspapers, directories, passenger ship lists, and publications of genealogical organizations; maps, atlases, and other geographical resources.

Author : Anton Treuer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0873517954

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This compelling, highly anticipated narrative traces the history of the Ojibwe people in Minnesota, exploring cultural practices, challenges presented by more recent settlers, and modern day discussions of sovereignty and identity.

Author : Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0816648689

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In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.