Author: Bill McAuliffe
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736822534
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presents information about the state of Minnesota, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
Minnesota Facts and Symbols
Author: Bill McAuliffe
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736822534
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presents information about the state of Minnesota, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736822534
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Presents information about the state of Minnesota, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
All about Minnesota
Author: Bandana Ojha
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Filled with up-to-date information, color photos, fascinating & fun facts this book " All About Minnesota: 100+ Fascinating Fun Facts & Trivia" is the best book for kids as well as the entire family to find out more about the North Star State. This book would satisfy the children's curiosity and help them to understand why Minnesota is special-and what makes it different from other States. This book gives a story, history, the state symbols, how MN got her name, why it is called bread & butter State, and land of 10,000 lakes. It is a fun way for young readers to find out more interesting and fun facts of the Gopher State. This is a great chance for every kid as well as the entire family to expand their knowledge about one of the best-educated and wealthiest state in the nation and impress their friends with all "discovered and never knew before" amazing and interesting fun facts.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Filled with up-to-date information, color photos, fascinating & fun facts this book " All About Minnesota: 100+ Fascinating Fun Facts & Trivia" is the best book for kids as well as the entire family to find out more about the North Star State. This book would satisfy the children's curiosity and help them to understand why Minnesota is special-and what makes it different from other States. This book gives a story, history, the state symbols, how MN got her name, why it is called bread & butter State, and land of 10,000 lakes. It is a fun way for young readers to find out more interesting and fun facts of the Gopher State. This is a great chance for every kid as well as the entire family to expand their knowledge about one of the best-educated and wealthiest state in the nation and impress their friends with all "discovered and never knew before" amazing and interesting fun facts.
Creating Minnesota
Author: Annette Atkins
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
North Country
Author: Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816648689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816648689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.
Only in Minnesota
Author: Berit Thorkelson, Roxanne Kjarum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610604642
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610604642
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Popular History of Minnesota
Author: Norman K. Risjord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873515320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Minnesota State of Wonders
Author: Brian Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996525701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Brian Peterson and Kerri Westenberg, both native Minnesotans, share a deep affection for their homeland. That sensibility underlies every aspect of the State of Wonders project, which began as a series in the Travel section of the Star Tribune. Through their combined vision, springtime awakes in the northwest with prairie chicken dances and unfurling, delicate plants. Tallgrass prairies and historic American Indian lands trumpet the full glory of summer. Autumn colors dazzle the Mississippi River Valley, and winter in the Arrowhead region holds both harsh cold and exquisite beauty. Collectively, their work illuminates Minnesota's natural glories.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996525701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Brian Peterson and Kerri Westenberg, both native Minnesotans, share a deep affection for their homeland. That sensibility underlies every aspect of the State of Wonders project, which began as a series in the Travel section of the Star Tribune. Through their combined vision, springtime awakes in the northwest with prairie chicken dances and unfurling, delicate plants. Tallgrass prairies and historic American Indian lands trumpet the full glory of summer. Autumn colors dazzle the Mississippi River Valley, and winter in the Arrowhead region holds both harsh cold and exquisite beauty. Collectively, their work illuminates Minnesota's natural glories.
Destinations of a Lifetime
Author: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426215649
Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Plan where, when, and how to plot your adventure with National Geographic's worldwide network of travel experts and insider tips from locals"--Cover.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426215649
Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Plan where, when, and how to plot your adventure with National Geographic's worldwide network of travel experts and insider tips from locals"--Cover.
A Guide to Family History Resources at the Minnesota Historical Society
Author: Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514699
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This guide is an essential tool for all genealogists researching Minnesota family, local, and state history. Highlighting the many holdings of the society, this unique handbook features a lengthy, annotated listing of resources in subject areas such as: biographical, census, naturalization, cemetery, school, religious, business, court, government, legal, military, and veterans' records; official state-wide death records and index, 1908-96; photographs, personal papers, oral histories, ethnic resources, and local and county histories; family histories, newspapers, directories, passenger ship lists, and publications of genealogical organizations; maps, atlases, and other geographical resources.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514699
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This guide is an essential tool for all genealogists researching Minnesota family, local, and state history. Highlighting the many holdings of the society, this unique handbook features a lengthy, annotated listing of resources in subject areas such as: biographical, census, naturalization, cemetery, school, religious, business, court, government, legal, military, and veterans' records; official state-wide death records and index, 1908-96; photographs, personal papers, oral histories, ethnic resources, and local and county histories; family histories, newspapers, directories, passenger ship lists, and publications of genealogical organizations; maps, atlases, and other geographical resources.
Mni Sota Makoce
Author: Gwen Westerman
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.