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Highlights the historical significance of Minnesotas natural resources--the bountiful north woods, the treasured iron ranges, the impressive Mississippi waterfall on which the Mill City was built. It details the powerful marks left on the state by such luminous figures as Oliver H. Kelley, founder of the national Grange movement, Hubert H. Humphrey, champion of civil rights, and Betty Crocker, aid to homemakers everywhere. Lively side trips...

Beginning in 1857 when Minnesota's first ball club was organized in Nininger City and continuing through the Twins' latest season, Baseball in Minnesota is a comprehensive history of America's Pastime in the North Star State. Encompassing the rich heritage of minor league baseball, town teams, the Minnesota Gophers, the Saint Paul Saints, and the Minnesota Twins, this encyclopedic volume delivers exceptionally detailed stories of the games, the ball...

From the atastrophic to the merely curious: A fire destroys the state capitol in 1881. A flu outbreak kills more than ten thousand Minnesotans in 1918. Frank Lloyd Wright is arrested at a cottage in 1926. A jailed stripper blames a wardrobe malfunction in 1953. A Duluth heiress is smothered by a cold-blooded killer in 1977. These fascinating stories, and more, are culled from Minnesota newspaper archives and compiled here.

Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the state's boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be understood without a closer examination of the history of the Dakota people and their deep cultural connection to the land that is Minnesota. Drawing on oral history...

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, Minnesotathe largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering...