North country : the making of Minnesota / Mary Lethert Wingerd ; illustrations compiled and annotated by Kirsten Delegard.
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North country : the making of Minnesota / Mary Lethert Wingerd ; illustrations compiled and annotated by Kirsten Delegard.
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 449 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
General Note:
"Published in cooperation with The office of the president, University of Minnesota and St. Cloud State University."
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Prologue : true north -- The fortunate land -- Cultural crossroads -- Geographies of dominion -- Shifting ground -- Highway to the north -- A world unraveling -- Drawing boundaries -- Civilized pursuits -- Playing for power -- The roads to war -- Cataclysm on the Minnesota -- Epilogue : pasts remembered, pasts forgotten.
Summary:
Examines the early history of Minnesota and the U.S.-Dakota War. Explores the lives of early pioneers to the Minnesota territory and how Europeans and Native Americans interacted before state ratification and the war.
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