Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
1863 Minnesota's first railroad fatality: a train strikes a wagon driven by Captain Abraham Bennett at the Como Road crossing in St. Paul. There had been talk of building a bridge at the site, but, ironically, Bennett himself had ...
A chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
The Minnesota Book of Skills brings to life the basic know-how that makes us uniquely Minnesotan.
Including thorough and accessible analyses of the state's geologic history and climate, this is the essential book for tourists, naturalists, teachers, scientists, and residents of the state.
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 ...
See also John W. Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825—1925 (Columbus: University of ...
The lively story of how private citizens, architects, and public officials formed an unlikely coalition to build Minnesota's statehouse at the turn of the twentieth century.
Christensen, Thomas P., "Danish Settlements in Minnesota," Minnesota History, 8:363-85 (Dec, 1927). An excellent account of this racial group. Cheistianson, Theodore, Minnesota, 1 :416-19; 2: 102-5. Discusses the promotion of ...
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Wisconsin Family Weekends : 20 Fun Trips for You and the Kids , Susan Lampert Smith • County Parks of Wisconsin , Revised Edition , Jeannette and Chet Bell • Up North Wisconsin : A Region for All Seasons , Sharyn Alden • Great Wisconsin ...