Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. - Böcker

Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850.

Läs mer »

Book Three focuses on Karl Oskar and Kristina as they adapt to their new homeland and struggle to survive on their new farm.

Läs mer »

Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.

Läs mer »

Gordon Parks (1912-2006) -- the groundbreaking photographer, writer, composer, activist, and filmmaker -- was only sixteen in 1928 when he moved from Kansas to St. Paul, Minnesota, after his mothers death. There, homeless and hungry, he began his ...

Läs mer »

Book Two opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chicago County.

Läs mer »

In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and living in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Iola Columbus (Dakota)an...

Läs mer »

Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina", the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels, a woman who constantly yearns for her homeland. Bu...

Läs mer »

A popular guide to the state's canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way. Photographs and maps support the fascinating, authoritative t...

Läs mer »

A distinguished historian examines the circumstances surrounding the stone's discovery in 1898 and discusses the ensuing controversy in the light of later sources.

Läs mer »

A unique cookbook that combines lively social history with mouth-watering recipes from "the good old days." Gathering her data from old cookbooks, household guides, letters, diaries, and newspapers, the author pieces together a fascinati...

Läs mer »

Personal stories of hardship and happiness told by 154 early Minnesota settlers re-create everyday frontier life from the 1840s to the 1860s. This remarkable collection of reminiscences was first published by the Daughters of the American Revoluti...

Läs mer »

The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota....

Läs mer »

This book describes the long, ongoing campaign to secure and preserve for posterity the primeval qualities of these large natural areas. In tracing the campaign's ups and downs, the narrative chronicles a chapter in the regional History of Minneso...

Läs mer »

An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.

Läs mer »

An accurate depiction of the seasonal life of the Ojibway Indians in the mid-1800s based on artifacts in the collections of MHS. Captions in both English and phonetic translations into the Ojibway language make the book especially useful in Americ...

Läs mer »

Keeping life in balance was a major challenge for Minnesota's Ojibway people in the nineteenth century. White settlers overran their lands and did all they could to 'civilise' the Ojibway -- to make them forget their history and traditions. With t...

Läs mer »

Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the Lake Superior Ojibwa in 1855, he made useful and unbiased studies of their material culture, religion, and folklore...

Läs mer »

The Bones of Plenty is a powerful and absorbing novel about the struggles of a proud North Dakota wheat-farming family during the Great Depression. Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land ...

Läs mer »

Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression. "Reapers of the Dust," now reprinted for a new generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficu...

Läs mer »

An intensely personal work written in lyrical, flowing prose-poetry, the book at once combines a daughter's love with a family heritage of commitment to political and social change...It is a folk-history of midwestern radicalism."--Larry Reme...

Läs mer »

Murder in Minnesota features some of the state's most infamous criminals a collection of fascinating and disagreeable characters usually ignored by historians. They live again in these pages as the conniving, clever, and or pitiful creatures they ...

Läs mer »

This vivid memoir for young readers, first published in 1914, offers a unique look at the Hidatsa people's early reservation years. In simple and appealing prose, Goodbird describes growing up and learning about traditional skills, religious belie...

Läs mer »

In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the United States government. "He went," note...

Läs mer »

Little Crow" makes a major contribution to our understanding of an Indian tribe that profoundly influenced the course of history in the upper Mississippi Valley, partly at least through the personal role played by its most famous leader.

Läs mer »

First published in 1986 and now back in print, 'The Minnesota Ethnic Food Book' explores the rich landscape of food and cultural heritage by describing the traditional foods and foodways of many of the state's ethnic groups. Well-researched and th...

Läs mer »

A fascinating memoir of homesteading in South Dakota in the early twentieth century.

Läs mer »

The Mississippi's major waterfall played an important role in the development of lumbering, flour milling, and hydroelectric power in Minneapolis. The revised edition contains more than 50 photographs and a new epilogue by the author describing th...

Läs mer »

Tells the traditional stories and describes the lifeways of some of the first people of the Plains: the Pawnee, Sioux, Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara, and Omaha Indians. Through these stories, readers learn of the essential ties Native peoples have to t...

Läs mer »

Written by a Minnesota native son, We Made It Through the Winter is a book for all seasons and all readers. A distinguished author of history and fiction, Walter O'Meara re-creates times that were at once romantic and real.

Läs mer »

This is an the authoritative account of a unique and colourful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts...

Läs mer »