Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Old rail fence corners : frontier tales told by Minnesota pioneers
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Identifier: 6471-RefShelf-General
Scope and Contents
Illustrations: Survivors who were at Traverse des Sioux at the time of the treaty in 1851: Mrs. Richard Chute, General William G. Le Duc, Mrs. Gideon Pond; with Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris -- Group of contributors taken at a party at the home of Mrs. James T. Morris, May 26, 1915 -- Mrs. Margaret King Hern (St. Paul); Medal (Defender of Fort Ridgely) presented to Margaret King Hern by the State [of Minnesota] in 1896; Late type of Red River Cart, taken in the [Eighteen] Fifties. Earlier...
Dates:
Publication: Reprint edition 1976
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943 : photographs from the Farm Security Administration
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Identifier: 6411-RefShelf-General
Abstract
"Picturing Minnesota brings together the best of the images taken in Minnesota from the collection of photographs commissioned by the Farm Security Administration during the depression era and the advent of World War II. Among the photographers represented here are John Vachon, a native of St. Paul, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Arthur Rothstein and Marion Post Wolcott. Outstanding as photographic works of art, these pictures are unique in their ability to convey the details of life in Minnesota...
Dates:
Copyright: 1989
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Southwestern Minnesota archaeology : 12,000 years in the Prairie Lake Region
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Identifier: 9996-RefShelf-General
Abstract
"Focusing on southwestern Minnesota, north-central Iowa, and south-eastern South Dakota, the author describes the ... environmental changes ... [occurring before the arrival of European explorers] and their impact on the human, animal, and plant cultures of the region ... [known also as the Great Plains and the Eastern Woodlands]"--Back cover.
Dates:
Copyright: 1997
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834
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Identifier: 6130-RefShelf-General
Abstract
In the spring of 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakotaa Indians on the shore of Lake Calhoun -- now part of Minneapolis, Minnesota -- intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly 20 years learning the Dakota language and observing how the Indians lived. In the 1860s and 1870s, after the Dakota had fought a disastrous war with the whites who had taken their land, Samuel Pond recorded his...
Dates:
Copyright: 1986; Publication: 1908
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The pocket guide to Minnesota place names : the stories behind 1,200 places in the North Star State
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Identifier: 6311-RefShelf-General
Dates:
Copyright: 2002
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
The story of Minnesota's past
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Identifier: 6450-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Table of contacts
Red Wing : a river town -- Hawley : a farm-centered town -- Hibbing : a town built on iron -- St. Paul's West Side : a stopping place for newcomers -- How long is a thousand years? -- Strangers from another world -- The fur trade : where two worlds meet -- New boundaries on the prairies and in the woods -- The new Minnesotans -- War in the South -- War at home -- Breaking the sod -- Towns, timber, and iron rails -- Life in the new state -- Machines, mills, and mines -- The new cities --...
Dates:
Publication: 1989
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
They chose Minnesota : a survey of the state's ethnic groups
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Identifier: 5546-RefShelf-General
Abstract
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.
Dates:
Copyright: 1981
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Through Dakota eyes : narrative accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
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Identifier: 6278-RefShelf-General
Abstract
A collection of personal accounts chronicling the experiences of the Native Americans and soldiers who fought in the Minnesota Indian War of 1862.
Dates:
Copyright: 1988
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Voices for the land : Minnesotans write about the places they love
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Identifier: 6466-RefShelf-Minnesota & Regional
Abstract
"In this extraordinary tribute to the importance of the ordinary places in our lives, fifty-two Minnesotans write about the special, sometimes secret, places that give their lives meaning"--Jacket.
Dates:
Copyright: 2002
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
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- Minnesota -- History, Local. 3
- Minnesota -- Ethnic relations. 2
- Minnesota -- History. 2
- Names, Geographical -- Minnesota. 2
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Agriculture and state -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Catholic Church -- Bishops -- Biography. 1
- Catholic Church -- United States -- Bishops -- Biography. 1
- Catholics -- Minnesota -- Biography. 1
- Cooking, American. 1
- Dakota Indians -- Biography. 1
- Dakota Indians -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Dakota Indians -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
- Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1862-1865 -- Personal narratives. 1
- Disaster relief -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Minnesota. 1
- Food conservation -- Minnesota. 1
- Food habits -- Minnesota -- History. 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota. 1
- Governors -- Minnesota -- Biography. 1
- Indians of North America -- Implements -- Minnesota. 1
- Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Antiquities. 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- Minnesota -- Personal narratives. 1
- Ireland, John, 1838-1918. 1
- Journalists -- Minnesota -- Biography. 1
- Log cabins -- Minnesota -- Pictorial works. 1
- Mdewakanton Indians -- Material culture. 1
- Mdewakanton Indians -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. 1
- Mdewakanton Indians -- Rites and ceremonies. 1
- Mdewakanton Indians -- Social life and customs. 1
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- Minnesota -- Politics and government -- 1858-1950. 1
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- Minorities -- Minnesota. 1
- Natural areas -- Minnesota -- Anecdotes. 1
- Norwegian Americans -- Minnesota -- History. 1
- Parks -- Minnesota -- History 1
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- Petersen, Hjalmar, 1890-1968. 1
- Pioneers -- Minnesota -- Biography. 1
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