Minnesota Historical Society Press
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When Minnehaha Flowed with Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls
$18.95 Add to cartThe lost history of Minnehaha Falls–featuring dance halls, secret saloons, wild behavior, lawsuits, and plenty of whiskey.
Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis has been a much-loved place for a very long t
- Author: Cooper, Karen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 168134226X
- Language: English
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Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride
$18.95 Add to cartSince its beginnings in 1993, the Queer Voices reading series has featured both emerging and established Minnesota-based writers of the LGBTQIA+ community. With a track record of more than twenty… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1681341220
- Language: English
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Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community
$19.95 Add to cartThis anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the natio… [more below]
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Erdrich, Heid E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514289
- Language: English
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The Essential Dear Dara: Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places
$19.95 Read moreA portrait of a place and its people through the writings and musings of one of the Twin Cities’ most beloved and prolific writers.
For 25 years, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been a fixture of Twin Cit- Author: Grumdahl, Dara Moskowitz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342758
- Language: English
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Stand Up!: The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition
$16.95 Add to cartA brief and readable overview of the political protest movements that have shaped Minnesota, a state of extremes.
- Author: Gilman, Rhoda R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518497
- Language: English
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Minnesota in the ’70s
$29.95 Add to cartReaching far beyond disco with an intriguing and entertaining look at the changes and challenges of the 1970s, the decade in which Minnesota grew into its modern identity.
- Author: Kenney, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0873518934
- Language: English
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St. Paul: An Urban Biography
$18.95 Add to cartA concise history, featuring stories that are familiar, surprising, and sure to change the way you see Minnesota’s capitol city.
How did the city of St. Paul come to be where and what it is, and what- Series: Urban Biography #3
- Author: Lindeke, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1681342006
- Language: English
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The Four Hills of Life: Ojibwe Wisdom
$19.95 Read moreThe Four Hills of Life tells the wise and beautiful Ojibwe story about the path we walk through the seasons of life, from the springtime of youth through the winter of old age. The hills we climb alon
- Author: Peacock, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518284
- Language: English
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North Woods Girl
$17.95 Read more“When Grandma tucks her pants into her oversized boots and grabs her walking stick, I run to catch up,” reports a young girl charmed by her visits to Grandma’s north woods home. Their walks take them … [more below]
- Author: Bissonette, Aim?e M
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0873519663
- Language: English
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Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota
$25.95 Add to cartMuch of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyo… [more below]
- Author: Westerman, Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0873518691
- Language: English
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The Voyageur’s Highway: Minnesota’s Border Lake Land
$17.95 Add to cartThis popular guide to Minnesota’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.
- Series: Mysteries & Horror
- Author: Nute, Grace Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 129
- Publish Date: June 01 1941
- ISBN10: 0873510062
- Language: English
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In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation
$17.95 Add to cartA never-before-published book by famed Native American author Charles Eastman recounts the stories of the Dakota creation cycle as they were told a century and a half ago.
In the 1860s and 1870s, the- Author: Eastman, Charles Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342332
- Language: English
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Land of the Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders on the South Dakota Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThis tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.
“Interesting in its spirit and atmosphere, and it is told simply and well. . . Thi… [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Kohl, Edith Eudora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: October 15 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511999
- Language: English
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Strength of the Earth: The Classic Guide to Ojibwe Uses of Native Plants
$18.95 Add to cartFrom techniques for tapping maple trees and harvesting wild rice to extracting dyes from bloodroot to making dishes from birch bark and dolls with cattails, Strength of the Earth details the many uses… [more below]
- Author: Densmore, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0873515625
- Language: English
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My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals an… [more below]
- Author: Child, Brenda J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0873519248
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Loon
$16.95 Add to cartBelow white pines, at water’s edge,
in guarded nest of mud and sedge,
squeezed inside an olive egg,
beak meets wing meets folded leg.
With these few words, the scene is set for the hatching of Moon… [more below]- Author: Dayton, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1681341581
- Language: English
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First Avenue: Minnesota’s Mainroom
$24.95 Add to cartWhere Prince and Minnesota made rock ‘n’ roll history–a glorious look back at one of rock’s most storied clubs and the thousands of musicians who took the stage there.
One of the longest running rock- Author: Riemenschneider, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1681342391
- Language: English
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A Choice of Weapons
$18.95 Read moreGordon 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 mother’s deat… [more below]- Author: Parks, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0873517695
- Language: English
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The Dog Says How
$16.95 Add to cartCaptivating stories of growing up, traveling the world, and relying on the strangeness of others bring Kling fans to their feet and a fresh audience to its knees–bowled over by laughter.
- Author: Kling, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1681341182
- Language: English
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Star Party
$17.95 Add to cartWhen children and nature come together at the right moment, something magical happens. Join Nora and her grandparents as they gaze skyward and wonder: Who else is having a star party, just like us?
F- Author: Carlson-Voiles, Polly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342596
- Language: English
