Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 204 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816634289
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0816634297
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9780816634293
Content:
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
Note:
"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"--T.p. verso
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"Published in cooperation with the St. Paul pioneer press
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE: The Special Feeling We Had; INTRODUCTION: RAPIDS IN THE STREAM OF TIME: The Dawn of the Twentieth Century, 1901; THE 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; A LOT OF PREACHERS, A LOT OF GANGSTERS: Prohibition, 1920; THE 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
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DUST BOWL SISTERS: The Great Depression, 1934GREAT GOVERNORS: Johnson, Olson, and Stassen; A 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; A 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
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ROOT CAUSES: The Farm Crisis That Never Ended
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816634286
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Minnesota's Twentieth Century : Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic book
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Anecdotes
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Biography
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