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Title:
Boosters, hustlers, and speculators : entrepreneurial culture and the rise of Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1849-1883 / Jocelyn Wills.
ISBN:
9780873515108

9781681341033
Personal Author:
Wills, Jocelyn, 1960-
Publication Information:
St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2005]

©2005
Physical Description:
xi, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Market expansion and Minnesota's territorial vanguard, 1787-1849 -- Minnesota's territorial start-up and the race for riches, 1849-1855 -- Territorial expansion and Minnesota's first economic bust, 1855-1861 -- Civil war contracts and the revival of Minnesota's economy, 1861-1868 -- The post-civil war boom and the rise of the cities, 1866-1872 -- Industrial depression and the survival of St. Paul-Minneapolis, 1873-1877 -- The triumph of Minnesota's metropolitan complex, 1878-1883.
Summary:
"Historian Jocelyn Wills offers a business and entrepreneurial history of Minneapolis and St. Paul during their start-up period, 1849-1883, with particular focus on the urban boosters, political hustlers, and western speculators who took chances on and promoted the Cities' development. Most arrived with limited means, and only some managed to realize their aspirations, but all contributed in some measure to this regional expansion of America's entrepreneurial culture. Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators places the two cities at the center of the global economy-in-the-making, illuminating the important connections between local, regional, and international rivalries and the development of American industrialization."

"Exhaustively researched, Boosters, Hustlers, and Speculators provides a firm foundation for understanding how visionary entrepreneurs - benefiting from government policies and lucrative economic opportunities - transformed Minnesota's Twin Cities from riparian villages into the region's reigning metropolitan center."--Jacket.
Geographic Term:
Minneapolis (Minn.) -- History -- 19th century

Saint Paul (Minn.) -- History -- 19th century.

Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century

Saint Paul (Minn.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century

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Subject Term:
Industrialization--Minnesota--Minneapolis -- History 19th century

Industrialization--Minnesota--Saint Paul -- History 19th century

Urbanization--Minnesota--Minneapolis -- History 19th century

Urbanization--Minnesota--Saint Paul -- History 19th century

Businesspeople--Minnesota--Minneapolis -- History 19th century

Businesspeople--Minnesota--Saint Paul -- History 19th century
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0418/2004013114.html
The John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund Home Page http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366283
OCLC Number:
ocm55600730
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