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The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people-explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists-were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians, Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one. In a lively, clear style, Grace Lee Nute tells the...
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Minnesota prehistoric archaeology volume no. 12
Pub. Date
1976
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x, 52 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
11) Northern lights
Pub. Date
1989
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3 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
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English
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Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 35 cm
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English
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My Mighty Journey is the story of Saint Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis, the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River, and the changes it has witnessed over twelve thousand years. Written from the perspective of the waterfall, the narrative considers the people who lived nearby, the ways they lived, and how the area around the waterfall changed drastically in the past two centuries.
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Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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xxx, 225 pages ; 28 cm
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English
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"In April 1863--after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history--some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a prison at Camp McClellan in Davenport, Iowa. Separated from their wives, children, and elder relatives, with inadequate shelter, they lived there for three long, wretched years. More than 120 men died. Desperate to connect with their families, many of...
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Pub. Date
2003
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ix, 101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and were the largest ancestry group in the 2000 census. Author Kathleen Neils Conzen tells the story of German Americans and their profound influence on Minnesota history and culture.
Conzen recounts their triumphs and struggles over the last 150 years in a clear and concise narrative. Landing in poverty,...
Conzen recounts their triumphs and struggles over the last 150 years in a clear and concise narrative. Landing in poverty,...
