In 1849, when settlers arrived in the newly formed Minnesota Territory, they disembarked at the rough shantytown known as St Paul, home to fur traders and a handful of merchants. Nearby was Fort Snelling, its soldiers charged with keeping peace in the wilderness, its territory later transferred to the burgeoning settlement at Minneapolis. Less than four decades later, St Paul had emerged as a ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Jocelyn Wills

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, naturalisation, cemetery, school, religious, business, court, government, legal, military, and veterans' records; official ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Through hundreds of photographs and entertaining commentary, veteran author Dave Kenney offers a virtual tour through 150 years of events and movements that shaped the culture and landscape of the Twin Cities. The first complete history of Minneapolis and St. Paul published in two decades, Twin Cities Album: A Visual History spans their ramshackle beginnings as cross-river rivals to ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Dave Kenney

Each year, more than ten thousand of the Midwest’s brightest take to the stage in cap and gown, armed with the knowledge, relationships, and lasting memories that could only come from an education at the University of Minnesota. Each of these graduates has been shaped by—and all have shaped—a rich collective history reaching back more than 150 years. In Gopher Gold, students, ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Tim Brady

To some, the fields and farms of the Upper Midwest all look the same, but to the people who have struggled to raise families and make a living from the soil, each farm is a 'small kingdom' with a rich and often troubled history. This book focuses on the O'Neills, the family of his wife Sharon, and their 240 acres near Rochester, Minnesota. When William O'Neill began raising dairy cows in Minnesota ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: John Hildebrand

A boardinghouse keeper finds her kitchen in a mess after Saturday-night revelry and refuses to cook on Sunday. An iron miner pries frozen ore from a car in 40-below temperatures. A grocer makes sausage, brews wine, and forages for mushrooms and dandelion greens. In Italian Voices, Minnesota’s Italian Americans share rich stories of everyday life in communities in the Iron Range, ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Mary Ellen Mancina-Batinich

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: Meridel Le Sueur

Minnesotans have always had a love/hate relationship with winter. Here, in historic photographs from the Minnesota Historical Society's collections, are astounding and humorous images that celebrate that relationship. This postcard book conjures thoughts of sub-zero temperatures and arctic conditions exaggerated by Minnesotans who proudly describe their survival skills. They find numerous ways to ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press

On 13 August 1990 members of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the State of Minnesota for interfering with the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights that had been guaranteed to them in an 1837 treaty with the United States. In order to interpret the treaty the courts had to consider historical circumstances, the intentions of the parties, and the treaty's implementation. The ...

Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press

First published in 1941 as part of the American Guide Series, this lively book describes Minnesota's popular northern region. Special features include 15 canoe trips; 5 maps; 37 photographs; 47 city, town, and village profiles; 4 road tours; a chronology; a glossary; and a bibliography with updated suggestions for further reading in fiction and nonfiction about the region.

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Workers of the Wpa Writers Program