Author: John Harrington Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People
Author: John Harrington Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People
Author: John Harrington Stevens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People, and Early History of Minneapolis ... With Biographical Memoranda and Letters to Col. J.H. Stevens, Selected by M. Robinson
Author: John Harrington STEVENS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780665150029
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780665150029
Category : Minneapolis (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society
Author: Minnesota Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
That Time of Year
Author: Garrison Keillor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1951627709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1951627709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”
Progressive Men of Minnesota
Author: Marion Daniel Shutter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Published by The Minneapolis Journal, this 1897 work offers brief biographical sketches of men from business, politics, and other professions who were considered by the Journal to have taken leading roles in the development of Minnesota. The book also includes historical and descriptive sketches of the state.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Published by The Minneapolis Journal, this 1897 work offers brief biographical sketches of men from business, politics, and other professions who were considered by the Journal to have taken leading roles in the development of Minnesota. The book also includes historical and descriptive sketches of the state.
Compendium of History and Biography of Minneapolis and Hennepin County, Minnesota
Author: Return Ira Holcombe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Minnesota Biographies, 1655-1912
Author: Warren Upham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
A History of Minnesota
Author: William Watts Folwell
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume 1 covers Minnesota's early development from the days of French exploration and trade with American Indians through territorial times to the eve of statehood in 1857. Volume 2 continues the story from 1858 to 1865, with emphasis on the state's participation in the Civil War and the Sioux Uprising (Dakota Conflict) of 1862. Volume 3 completes the chronological record with a comprehensive picture of Minnesota politics from 1865 to 1925. Volume 4 focuses on special topics such as iron mining, public education, the Chippewa (Ojibway), election procedures, and a dozen outstanding Minnesotans. Includes a consolidated index to Volumes 1-4.
Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People, and Early History of Minneapolis
Author: John H. Stevens
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353701574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353701574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.