Abstract "Elmer L. Andersen has been described as Minnesota's leading citizen. As a Minnesota state senator, he pioneered progressive legislation in the areas of civil rights, special education and welfare, mental health care, and metropolitan governance. His term as Minnesota's governor in the early 1960s was marked by the founding of Southwest State University and the establishment of several state parks, which, along with his role in the creation of Voyageurs National Park, gained him a reputation...

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Dissolving the wilderness -- Concentration of nonfarm growth -- Reorganizing the cities -- Reorganizing the region's work -- Income, wealth, and quality of life.

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Centennial commemorative volume of pictures of people, places and events in the Paul Bunyan State.

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In 1981, near the end of the second post-World War II energy crisis and at the onset of the nation's most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it called a 'providential plant' destined to be a new and saving crop: the Jerusalem artichoke. In this book, the author tells the story of the failed attempt by a less-than-honest businessman to introduce this new crop to a depressed agricultural region of the United States.

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More rebel than radical -- The Farm Labor Movement -- Victory in 1930 -- Olson's first legislature -- Slump and rally -- Capitalism on trial -- The emergence of a radical -- Toward national leadership -- A troublesome platform -- The truck strike -- The 1934 election -- Deadlock -- The spoilsmen turn king-makers -- The last fight.

Abstract "Featuring individual stories of success and defeat, hundreds of photographs and scores and statistics, Armand Peterson and Tom Tomashek chronicle the unfolding of a period of Minnesota baseball history - a span of sixteen years beginning in 1945 and the euphoric postwar days to 1960, the year before the Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins. During this time Minnesota experienced a magical era of amateur ball, setting records in town participation and attendance that have not been...