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We Made It Through the Winter: A Memoir of Northern Minnesota Boyhood (Publications of the Minnesota ...
Walter O'Meara

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1974

A snapshot in time
A surprisingly engaging story of what life in Cloquet, Minnesota was like for a young boy at the beginning of the 20th century.
  
  











  



  
Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1989

In the middle of the Great Depression, photographers working for Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA) began traveling across America taking pictures of ordinary people and places. Their photographs became a permanent legacy of our national life-"the most remarkable human documents that were ever rendered in pictures," ...
  
  











  



  
The Sioux Uprising of 1862 (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)
Kenneth Carley

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1976

Also known as the Dakota Conflict and the Dakota War of 1862, this bloody and tragic episode in Minnesota's history was one of a series of Indian wars on the Northern Plains that did not end until 1890 with the infamous Battle of Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
  
  











  



  
The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 (Publications of the Minnesota ...
Carolyn Gilman, Mary Jane Schneider

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1987

Little house on the prarie
American popular culture has been good at showing the lives of white settlers on the American frontier, but almost nonexistent when it comes to showing the lives of Native Americans. A greaat example is the TV show "Little House on the Prarie". This book is the ...
  
  











  



  
Curve of the Arch: The Story of Louis Sullivan's Owatonna Bank
Larry Millett

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1985
  
  











  



  
Pioneering With Taconite
Edward W. Davis

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1964

With humor and insight, E. W. Davis tells the story that begins with the discovery of then-valueless taconite on Minnesota?s Mesabi Iron Range in 1870 and several decades of attempts to process taconite commercially. Davis details the ups and downs of the exciting, decades-long research effort that resulted in a workable extraction method, ...
  
  











  



  
They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1981

Why did emigrants leave their homeland and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did they maintain their ethnicity? Based on ground-breaking research. Each chapter of They Chose Minnesota describes the unique concerns of individual groups and delves into personal stories. Farmers ...
  
  











  



  
Dining Car Line to the Pacific: An Illustrated History of the Np Railway's "Famously Good" Food, With 150 ...
William A. McKenzie

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1990

A reading jewel !
William McKenzie is a former Northern Pacific Railway employee who has created this delightful narrative of the NP's dining car history, complete with numerous priceless photographs of gorgeous dining cars created by the Pullman Company and furnished with the finest of ...
  
  











  



  
Minnesota's Boundary With Canada: Its Evolution Since 1783 (Publications - Minnesota Historical Society, ...
William E. Lass

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1980

Degrees of separation
Once having lived close to the Mason-Dixon Line whose markers (some of them) I've traced and visited, I find surveying and marking boundaries, whether it's surveying a property line prior to erecting a fence to international boundary disputes such as the one waged ...
  
  











  



  
The Haymakers **ISBN: 9780873513944**
Steven R. Hoffbeck

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 2000
  
  











  



  
Twin Cities Picture Show
Dave Kenney

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 2007
  
  











  



  
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Minnesota: His Homes and Haunts (Minnesota historic sites pamphlet ; no. 18)
John J. Koblas

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 1978

Homes and Haunts
The book supplied the reader with good information about places in St. Paul (and the surrounding area) where F. Scott Fitzgerald could be found in his early years. There were also a lot of pictures of the houses and buildings. It would have been nice to have more ...
  
  











  



  
Norgwegians on the Prairie
Odd Sverre Lovoll

Minnesota Historical Society Pr, 2006
  
  











  



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