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ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Poor Farm No. 1, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, 1870-1901 & Poor Farm No. 2, Cottonwood Street, New Ulm, Minnesota, 1907-1965
Author: The History of Renville County, Minnesota
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Renville County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Agriculture Yesterday & Today
Author: Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains
Author: Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A beautifully rendered reference guide to the Great Plains portion of the famous expedition through the American West highlights the explorer's remarkable encounters with previously undocumented flora and fauna as they moved through the Plains region. Original. (Biology & Natural History)
History of Methodism in Minnesota
Author: Chauncey HobartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
History of the Methodist Church in Minnesota froem early missions to 1887.
Massacre in Minnesota
Author: Gary Clayton AndersonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and thirty to forty thousand had fled the frontier of Minnesota. But the devastation was not all on one side. More than five hundred Indians, many of them women and children, perished in the aftermath of the conflict; and thirty-eight Dakota warriors were executed on one gallows, the largest mass execution ever in North America. The horror of such wholesale violence has long obscured what really happened in Minnesota in 1862—from its complicated origins to the consequences that reverberate to this day. A sweeping work of narrative history, the result of forty years’ research, Massacre in Minnesota provides the most complete account of this dark moment in U.S. history. Focusing on key figures caught up in the conflict—Indian, American, and Franco- and Anglo-Dakota—Gary Clayton Anderson gives these long-ago events a striking immediacy, capturing the fears of the fleeing settlers, the animosity of newspaper editors and soldiers, the violent dedication of Dakota warriors, and the terrible struggles of seized women and children. Through rarely seen journal entries, newspaper accounts, and military records, integrated with biographical detail, Anderson documents the vast corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the crisis that arose as pioneers overran Indian lands, the failures of tribal leadership and institutions, and the systemic strains caused by the Civil War. Anderson also gives due attention to Indian cultural viewpoints, offering insight into the relationship between Native warfare, religion, and life after death—a nexus critical to understanding the conflict. Ultimately, what emerges most clearly from Anderson’s account is the outsize suffering of innocents on both sides of the Dakota War—and, identified unequivocally for the first time, the role of white duplicity in bringing about this unprecedented and needless calamity.
Germans in Minnesota
Author: Kathleen Neils ConzenPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873517342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
A concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years.
Texas Almanac 2014–2015
Author: Elizabeth Cruce AlvarezPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1625110065
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1603
Book Description
FEATURES OF THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2014–2015 • Sketches of eight historic ranches of Texas by Texana writer Mike Cox. • Article on the Texas art and artists by Houston businessman and art collector J.P. Bryan, who has amassed the world’s largest Texana collection. • Coverage of the 2012 elections, redistricting, and the 2012 Texas Olympic medalists. • An update on Major League Baseball in Texas. • Lists of sports champions — high school, college, and professional. MAJOR SECTIONS UPDATED FOR EACH EDITION • The Environment, including geology, plant life, wildlife, rivers, and lakes. • Weather highlights of the previous two years, plus a list of destructive weather dating from 1766. • Two-year Astronomical Calendar that shows moon phases, times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, eclipses, and meteor showers. • Recreation, with details on state and national parks and forests, landmarks, and fairs and festivals. • Sports, including lists of high school football and basketball champions, professional sports teams, Texas Olympians, and Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductees. • Counties section, with detailed county maps and profiles for Texas’s 254 counties. • Population figures from the 2010 US Census and State Data Center estimates as of 2012. • Comprehensive list of Texas Cities and Towns. • Politics, Elections, and information on Federal, State, and Local Governments. • Culture and the Arts, including a list of civic and religious Holidays. • Religion census of 2010 by denomination and adherents; breakdown on metro areas and counties. • Health and Science, with charts of vital statistics. • Education, including a complete list of colleges and universities, and UIL results. • Business and Transportation, with an expanded section on Oil and Gas. • Agriculture, including data on production of crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and dairy. • Obituaries of notable Texans. • Pronunciation Guide to Texas town and county names.
The Development of American Agriculture
Author: Willard W. CochranePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900537
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Minnesota
Author: Theodore Christian BlegenPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145290748X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
The acclaimed history is brought up to date through placement of the political, economic, social, and cultural developments since 1963 within the larger context of national and international events