Author: Elizabeth Johanneck
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231958
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Traveled by mammoth-hunters and motorcyclists alike, the Minnesota River Valley shows the traces of a unique legacy: where else are you going to find a political party with ideals based on honest conversation and gymnastics? Not all of it is as lovely as the natural scenery it accompaniesMankato was the site of the largest mass execution in United States historybut its heritage demands contemplation. Discover the valleys most enterprising characters, from Fort Snelling bootleggers like Pierre Pigs Eye Parrant to the Granite Falls lawyer behind Prohibition, Andrew Volstead. With a guide like Johanneck, you might meet some familiar figures in surprising circumstances as she steals up behind Dr. Mayo at the grave he was robbing for medical research or catches FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in a moment of unguarded correspondence.
Author: Pediment Group, Incorporated, The
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891395888
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: John O. Anfinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: C.F. Cooper & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Edward Duffield Neill
Publisher: Minneapolis, North star publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Author: Michael C. Hardy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467153826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Elizabeth Johanneck
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781478236672
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When a well-connected Minneapolis organized crime member asked the author of HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE MINNESOTA RIVER VALLEY and TWIN CITIES PROHIBITION to write the history of the local underworld, she simply couldn't refuse Through newspaper articles and court documents, Johanneck fleshes out the rackets and the racketeers who ran them from the mid-1800's through the 1980's. But don't expect the city's crimes to be committed by the usual suspects. Avarice knows no bounds. Minneapolis' twin city has got nothing on her.
Author: Danielle Teigen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439662096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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Fueled by ambition and pipe dreams, Fargo's earliest residents created an entire city out of the dust of a flat, desolate prairie. Roberts Street might not exist if it weren't for Matilda Roberts, a resourceful pioneer wife who encouraged her husband's cousin to set up his law firm on that important downtown thoroughfare. O.J. deLendrecie generated so much success through his retail store that he was able to buy President Theodore Roosevelt's ranch in western North Dakota. Oliver Dalrymple may have been the bonanza farm king, but the better manager was his rival, Herbert Chaffee of the Amenia and Sharon Land Company. Author Danielle Teigen reveals the intriguing true stories behind many of the most engaging characters and what continues to make the "Gateway to the West" unique.
Author: Thomas F. Waters
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816609604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Elizabeth Johanneck
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614233543
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Ferret out the haunts and habits of those who kept speakeasy doors oiled and politics crooked in the Twin Cities. If you take a tour of former blind pigs today, you will probably encounter nothing more dangerous than a life-long attraction to the 5-8 Club's Juicy Lucy Burger, but Twin Cities Prohibition will return you to a time when honest reporting like that of Walter Liggett was answered with machine gun fire. Clink glasses with notorious characters such as Kid Cann, Dapper Dan Hogan and Doc Ames, the "Shame of Minneapolis" in Elizabeth Johanneck's raid on this fascinating era of history.
