| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 204 pages) : illustrations |
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Last hanging: the Gottschalk and Williams murder cases, 1905 -- Unsafe for democracy: the World War I Loyalty Crusade, 1917 -- Peace and death: the influenza pandemic, 1918 -- Lot of preachers, a lot of gangster: prohibition, 1920 -- Most atrocious crime: the Duluth lynchings, 1920 -- Save your breath and start climbing: the Milford Mine Disaster, 1924 -- Another country: life on and off the reservation -- Dust Bowl sisters: the Great Depression, 1934 -- Great governors: Johnson, Olson, and Stassen -- Have-not's war: the Spanish Civil War, 1937-38 -- Lost island: Isle Royale fishing -- Barbed-wire warriors: the POWs' secret war, 1943-45 -- Iron lady: the voice of the range -- Are you colored: discrimination and progress -- Where the action was: wars hot and cold -- Certain distance: the sixties -- Soldier's heart: Vietnam, 1968 -- who the hell is Ken Dahlberg: Watergate, 1972 -- On eagle's wings: the long journey of a hockey legend -- Haunted exiles: Saigon to Minneapolis -- root causes: the farm crisis that never ended |
| Summary |
One hundred years of remarkable Minnesota stories are brought together for the first time in Minnesota's Twentieth Century. A collection of writings and interviews that originated with the popular feature "A Century of Stories" in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, this book reveals the progress of a courageous, industrious people and their changing state. Lavishly illustrating these recollections are indelible images--contemporary photographs of the storytellers, as well as historical views of street scenes, prohibition arrests, and landscapes--that reflect the transformations of the past one hundred |
| Notes |
"Published in cooperation with the St. Paul pioneer press." |
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"Essays in this book were originally published as 'A century of stories, ' a feature series in the St. Paul pioneer press from 1997 to 1999"--Title page verso |
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Print version record |
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Minnesota Book Awards (won), 2000 |
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Minnesota -- History -- 20th century
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Minnesota -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
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Minnesota -- Biography -- Anecdotes
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Minnesota
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Electronic book
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Biographies
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History
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Anecdotes
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816690688 |
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0816690685 |
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9780816652976 |
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081665297X |
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1299914705 |
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9781299914704 |
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0816634289 |
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9780816634286 |
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