Author: Webb Garrison
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 141853062X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Minnesota. Minnesota Tales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
A Treasury of Minnesota Tales
Author: Webb Garrison
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 141853062X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Minnesota. Minnesota Tales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 141853062X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Minnesota. Minnesota Tales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
A Treasury of Iowa Tales
Author: Webb Garrison
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 141855779X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Iowa. A Treasury of IowaTales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 141855779X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Iowa. A Treasury of IowaTales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great traditions passed orally from generation to generation.
A Treasury of Tales
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Electing Jesse Ventura
Author: Jacob Lentz
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588260314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Himself a native of the state, political scientist Lentz analyzes the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election that brought a popular ex- wrestler to the state's highest office. He wades through the events of the campaign and election, and the commentary and punditry to look for the political lessons that can be learned. c. Book News Inc.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781588260314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Himself a native of the state, political scientist Lentz analyzes the 1998 Minnesota gubernatorial election that brought a popular ex- wrestler to the state's highest office. He wades through the events of the campaign and election, and the commentary and punditry to look for the political lessons that can be learned. c. Book News Inc.
Treasury of Classic Stories
Author: IglooBooks
Publisher: Igloo Books
ISBN: 9781789056174
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This collection of timeless tales is the perfect way to introduce 6 of the best-loved stories ever. Retold specially for children and brought to life with stunning illustrations, the whole family will want to share these classics together again and again.
Publisher: Igloo Books
ISBN: 9781789056174
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This collection of timeless tales is the perfect way to introduce 6 of the best-loved stories ever. Retold specially for children and brought to life with stunning illustrations, the whole family will want to share these classics together again and again.
Stealing the Mississippi River
Author: Donna Christoph Huegel
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
ISBN: 9780974905846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This is a collection of short stories and articles about the La Crescent, MN area, compiled and retold by the author.
Publisher: The Guest Cottage, Inc.
ISBN: 9780974905846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This is a collection of short stories and articles about the La Crescent, MN area, compiled and retold by the author.
State Register
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang
Author: Robert Barr Smith
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
So small it had only one bank, so quiet no citizens carried guns. Hard-working, peaceful Northfield, Minnesota, was an orderly yet busy mill-town in the heart of prosperous farm country. On a serene autumn Tuesday in 1876, local shopkeepers, farmers, and citizenry went about their normal routines, little realizing that the infamous and deadly James-Younger gang had designs on tiny Northfield. The experienced robbers planned to target the single bank, which held the hard-earned money of the townsfolk. Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers had never experienced defeat. During a wild gun battle that raged between the outlaws and the bankmen up and down the town’s main street, two unarmed townsfolk were murdered. Northfield’s angered populace fought back. The townspeople killed two members of the James-Younger gang and wounded several more. The remaining bandits fled but were pursued across southwestern Minnesota by a posse that gradually grew to more than a thousand men. In Last Hurrah of the James-Younger Gang, Robert Barr Smith debunks the James-Younger "Robin Hood" image and shows that the real heroes of the Northfield raid were the ordinary people--the bankers who protected their depositors at their own risk, the townspeople who pitched in to chase the gang from town, and the posse members who pursued and triumphed over the retreating remnants of the gang.
A Treasury of Christmas Stories
Author: Adams Media
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440534683
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Treasury of Christmas Stories is an uplifting collection of holiday tales from people just like you. You can read about the special gift that made a family’s Christmas or a mall Santa who learned sign language in order to bring holiday cheer to a little boy and enjoy their stories as you reflect on Christmas memories of your own. This wonderful collection celebrates the spirit of the holiday with one story for each of the twelve days of Christmas. Enjoy and happy holidays!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440534683
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
A Treasury of Christmas Stories is an uplifting collection of holiday tales from people just like you. You can read about the special gift that made a family’s Christmas or a mall Santa who learned sign language in order to bring holiday cheer to a little boy and enjoy their stories as you reflect on Christmas memories of your own. This wonderful collection celebrates the spirit of the holiday with one story for each of the twelve days of Christmas. Enjoy and happy holidays!
Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales
Author: Kurt Schwitters
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691139678
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691139678
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.