[PDF] The Minnesota Forest History Center eBook

Author : Annette Atkins
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 28,83 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 : June Drenning Holmquist
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :

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Based on ground-breaking research, this book describes the unique concerns of individual ethnic groups and delves into their personal Minnesota stories: farmers and factory workers, families and single people, idealists and pragmatists, people who were devout or irreligious -- those who cut ties with their homeland and formed part of Minnesota's ethnic saga.

Author : Gwen Westerman
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 33,18 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 : Todd Melby
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781681341880

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Go behind the scenes at this classic '90s film from cinematic masters Joel and Ethan Coen. Ya, you betcha, you're gonna discover some fascinating tidbits to celebrate the film's 25th anniversary.

Author : Anne J. Aby
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873514446

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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.