Minnesota Historical Society Press

Reducere. The game of lacrosse is a gift from the Creator, given to the American Indians in the long ago. But Travis Skinaway doesn't know the full story of ...

Reducere. Life is a circle, just like the seasons, from youth through old age. The circle of the year brings seasonal rituals: a winter of preparation follow...

Reducere. Minnesota's written history goes back only to the 1600s, when the first European visitors recorded the locations of native American populations. Th...

Reducere. Northeastern Minnesota Book AwardLake Superior's North Shore--the vast stretch between Duluth and Grand Portage--is nearly 150 miles long, with an ...

Reducere. Born near Lee's Summit, Missouri, Thomas Coleman (``Cole``) Younger (1844-1916) rode with William Clarke Quantrill's Confederate raiders during the...

Reducere. Developing recipes and sharing the results has been a lifelong vocation for Rae Katherine Eighmey. Today her kitchen library has thousands of recip...

"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I ...

Reducere. In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Lake Calhoun--now presen...

Reducere. With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the m...

Reducere. The Norwegians, who first arrived in territorial days, created lasting farming settlements, especially in the Red River Valley. Their Lutheran chur...

Reducere. With insight and candor, noted Ojibwe scholar Anton Treuer traces thousands of years of the complicated history of the Ojibwe people--their economy...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the sun sets over the fields, a little girl and her father begin the evening milking. The girl gathers the cows--a "Holstein parade"-...

Reducere. What goes through your mind when you're dropped alone in the middle of the Alaska Range, the cold and darkness surrounding you without another huma...

Reducere. The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Douglas when, in 1943, her young husband moved her and their baby, Anne, from suburban St. Paul...

Reducere. DescriptionKevin Kling, best known for his popular commentaries on National Public Radio's All Things Considered and his storytelling stage shows l...

The earliest arrivals were German Jews who came when the territory was newly created. By the 1880s they were joined by immigrants from eastern Euro...

Recognized as one of the twin cities' best drink makers, Johnny Michaels is the cocktail connoisseur's answer to a gourmet chef. His home base is t...

Reducere. DescriptionKevin Kling's first book, The Dog Says How, brought readers into his wonderful world of the skewed and significant mundane. Kling does i...

Reducere. Attentive young Sophie lives with her family at a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Superior. At this essential outpost, everyone has a job to do, wh...

Reducere. Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong...

Reducere. How does an ordinary person make a sophisticated, crowd-pleasing cake in a snap? With a bundt pan, of courseFoodie Susanna Short brings back the be...

Reducere. In Shining Big Sea Water, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of Lake Superior's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuri...

Reducere. From the colorful supermercados of St. Paul's West Side to the rural communities of the Red River Valley, Mexican Americans have left an indelible ...

Reducere. "Sherri Gerbert Fuller provides us with a rare look at Chinese immigrant lives and aspirations in Minnesota, proudly reclaiming their voices as par...

Reducere. Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and w...

Reducere. While making up a smaller percentage of Minnesota's population compared to national averages, African Americans have had a profound influence on th...

Reducere. Long out of print, this classic work on the Dakota language offers extensive information on Dakota grammar and contains a bilingual selection of Da...

Reducere. In St. Paul, where they were outnumbered by Germans immigrants, they nonetheless left a lasting legacy, so that today most Minnesotans think of St....

Reducere. DescriptionMinnesota has long been home to people from the Korean Peninsula--from early arrivals in the mid-twentieth century to their expanding fa...

Reducere. From techniques for tapping maple trees and harvesting wild rice to extracting dyes from bloodroot to making dishes from birch bark and dolls with ...

Reducere. Below white pines, at water's edge, in guarded nest of mud and sedge, squeezed inside an olive egg, beak meets wing meets folded leg. With these fe...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words...

Reducere. DescriptionGerald Vizenor, named to Utne Reader's list of one hundred "people who could change your life, " has been a significant force in Native ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Minnesota Book of Days is a entertaining and educational day-by-day account of Minnesota history, chronicling important events, famo...

Reducere. For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly...

Reducere. DescriptionThe doctors gathered around, passing the stethoscope from hand to hand, taking turns listening to my chest. Finally, the lead doctor sai...

Reducere. House calls. Flu epidemics. Terminal illnesses. Coroner duties. Fishhook incidents. For more than three decades, Roger A. MacDonald served the peop...

Reducere. When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a bride price, which both honors the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10, 000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus work...

Reducere. Insects are everywhere and easy to find--if you know where to look. Minnesota Bug Hunt puts you on the trail for insects big and small, fierce and ...

." . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn ba...

Reducere. Across North America, dedicated language warriors are powering an upswell, a resurgence, a revitalization of indigenous languages and cultures. Thr...

Reducere. One sunny day on his postal route, Vincent Wyckoff crosses the path of an elderly gentleman whistling for his lost parakeet. The old man is upset, ...

Reducere. Description"Nooko's spirit is there in the stars, " says Niigaanii to his younger brother, Bineshiinh, as they sprawl in a meadow, gazing skyward. ...

Reducere. What does an environmentalist do when she realizes she will inherit mineral rights and royalties on fracked oil wells in North Dakota? How does she...

Reducere. Minnesotans are a highly skilled bunch, whether pursuing traditional activities like wild ricing and pickling, or tastefully displaying taxidermy, ...

Reducere. The expansive squash family includes a host of versatile gourds just waiting for a creative cook's touch. Summer varieties fill gardens and overflo...

Reducere. In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis. She entered Ah-gwah-ching Sta...

Reducere. Karhu the bear lives in the piney north woods near the bustling burg of Finn Town. When he sees a billboard advertising "Mukluk Ball: Come One, Com...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and f...

Reducere. On a spring day in 1961, over-the-road trucker Jim Harper was en route from Mauston, Wisconsin, to his home in Minneapolis. At 70 miles per hour, w...

Reducere. Moonbeam Children's Book AwardFrom winter hunts to picnic foraging, Coyote makes his deliberate way through the seasons in his urban habitat. His a...

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, U.S.Author(s): Sara De LucaIllustration(s): b/w photosNumber of pages: 232Collection: Midwest Reflec...

Reducere. In the Midwest, winter means freezing temperatures, shorter days, and piles of snow. For some, the logical response is to curl up under the blanket...

Reducere. Look at the natural world around you. Closer now. Can you find the letter "A" in a jumble of tree roots, the letter "I" in a cattail, the letter "O...

Reducere. AwardsNortheastern Minnesota Book AwardDescriptionThe topics of the day fly fast and furious over Jim Northrup's moccasin telegraph: The game warde...

Reducere. Like the warmth of a cabin fireplace and the twinkle of lights along the edge of a frozen lake, Christmas in Minnesota evokes memories of holidays ...

Reducere. When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The correspon...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1918, Minnesota and its residents were confronted with a series of devastating events that put communities to the test, forcing them ...

Reducere. This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's histor...

Reducere. Duluth, the beautiful city at the head of the world's largest freshwater lake, has gone from boom to bust to boom and back again. In this richly te...

Reducere. "I was not prone to drastic actions. I did not rush into the unknown. After fifteen years as a more or less effective lawyer, I approached decision...

Reducere. On May 4, 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Soon abandoned by his comfort-loving compani...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota, while living in th...

Reducere. "Karlen offers a colorful and impressively researched account of the Minneapolis underworld and his fascinating relative that feels right out of Da...

Reducere. David, the last of Rosa's five sons, was born with Down syndrome. Unable to care for himself, he and the indomitable Rosa were to be forever bound ...

Reducere. How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what does that show us about the city today? In eight place-based chapters, Bill ...

Reducere. Josie dreams of dancing at next summer's powwow. But first she needs many special things: a dress, a shawl, a cape, leggings, moccasins, and, perha...

Reducere. Discover the gentle humor and astute observations of a true outdoorsman as he shares stories of natural wonders and personal revelations, family tr...

Reducere. Rhoda is on a long, long hike with her aunt and uncle, each of them carrying backpacks of gear as they walk through the north woods. While Auntie J...