Minnesota's twentieth century : stories of extraordinary everyday people / D.J. Tice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tice, D. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minnesota--History--20th century.

Minnesota.

Minnesota--History--20th century--Anecdotes.

Minnesota--Biography--Anecdotes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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

ROOT CAUSES: The Farm Crisis That Never Ended

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with the St. Paul pioneer press."

"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.

ISBN:

0-8166-5297-X

OCLC:

174131424