Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 204 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
081665297X
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0816634289
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0816634297
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0816690685
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1299914705
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9780816652976
,
9780816634286
,
9780816634293
,
9780816690688
,
9781299914704
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
"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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"Published in cooperation with the St. Paul pioneer press
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0816634297
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tice, D.J Minnesota's twentieth century Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1999
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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Anecdotes
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Biography
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