Research Catalog

Title

Minnesota 150 : the people, places, and things that shape our state / Kate Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Kate, 1959-

Publication

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2007.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xv, 224 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Minnesota one hundred fifty

Subjects

• Minnesota > Description and travel
• Minnesota > History
• Minnesota > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index.

Contents

• Preface -- Acknowledgments -- American Indian Movement -- Ancient tropical sea -- Elmer L. Andersen -- Arrival of major league sports -- Atmosphere -- Ann Bancroft -- Margaret Culkin Banning -- John Beargrease -- Charles Albert Bender -- Patty Berg -- Harriet Bishop -- Charles L. Blandin -- Norman Borlaug -- Boundary Waters Canoe Area -- Fanny Brin -- Bryan v. Itasca County -- Paul Bunyan -- Burma-Shave road signs -- Center for Victims of Torture -- Charter schools -- F. Melius Christiansen -- The Cloquet/Moose Lake fires of 1918 -- Confluence of Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers -- Gratia Alta Countryman --- Courage Center -- Seymour Cray -- Betty Crocker -- Dan Patch -- Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc -- Destruction of the Metropolitan Building -- Walter H. Duebener -- Don Miguel (Howard H. Hathaway) -- Ignatius Donnelly -- Duluth lynchings -- Bob Dylan --
• Ensilage Harvester -- Ethnic presses -- Wilford H. Fawcett -- Finkelstein and Ruben -- First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- William Watts Folwell -- Wanda Gág -- Verne Gagne -- Cass Gilbert -- Robert R. Gilruth -- Glaciation -- James Madison Goodhue -- Grand POrtage -- Grasshoppers -- Greyhound Bus Company -- Wendelin Grimm -- Guthrie Theater -- Hall Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band -- Hazelden -- Herter's, Inc. -- Highway 61 along the North Shore -- James J. Hill -- The Honeywell Project --- The Honeywell round thermostat -- Hubert H. Humphrey -- Immigrants -- Indian boarding schools -- john Ireland -- Iron ore -- Itasca State Park -- Jeffers Petroglyphs -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- J.R. Watkins Medical Company -- Hamilton Harris Judson --
• Garrison Keillor -- Oliver H. Kelley -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny -- Kensington Runestone -- Theodore F. Koch -- Sinclair Lewis -- Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. -- Ron and Al Lindner -- Maud Hart Lovelace -- Lutheranism -- Warren MacKenzie -- Paul Manship -- Market hunting -- Mayo Clinic -- Eugene J. MacCarthy -- Frederick L. McGhee -- L. David Mech -- Minneapolis Truckers' Strike, 1934 -- Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing -- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- Minnesota Orchestra -- Minnesota State Fair -- Vilhelm Moberg and Ole E. Rølvaag -- Walter F. Mondale -- George Morrison -- Mount Zion Hebrew Congregation -- Munsingwear -- Bronko Nagurski -- Near v. Minnesota -- Knute Nelson -- Floyd B. Olson -- The Olympic Hockey Team, 1980 --
• Bradford Parkison -- Gordon Parks -- The Phyllis Wheatley and Hallie Q. Brown Community Centers -- Pilgrim Baptist Church -- Pipestone -- Veda Ponikvar -- C. Stanley Potter -- Powwows -- Prince -- Elizabeth C. Quinlan -- Rapidan Dam -- Red River trails -- Religious orders -- Joseph Renville -- Martha Ripley -- Henry Hastings Sibley -- Skyways -- Snowmobiles -- Socialist Opera House -- Sound 80 -- Southdale Center -- SPAM -- Allan Spear -- Split Rock lighthouse -- Harold E. Stassen -- State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris -- Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association -- John Thomas -- Tonka trucks -- Treaty of 1837 --
• Clara Ueland -- University of Minnesota fruit-breeding program -- Unknown champions -- U.S.-Dakota War -- Xang Vang -- Jesse Ventura -- Owen H. Wangensteen -- Washburn Center for Children -- WCAL -- Webster Cooperative Dairy Association -- Paul Wellstone -- Wheat -- Henry B. Whipple -- White pine trees -- The Willmar 8 -- August Wilson -- Wind turbines -- Theodore Wirth -- Essays on sources -- Credits and permissions -- Index.

Call Number

IVL 08-4150

ISBN

• 9780873515948 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0873515943 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007023575

OCLC

144547876

Author

Roberts, Kate, 1959-

Title

Minnesota 150 : the people, places, and things that shape our state / Kate Roberts.

Imprint

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-212) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Research Call Number

IVL 08-4150