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by Jan Smith
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This is a fictional look at the daily life of a homesteading family of five in the year 1890. Many of the characters, events, and places, however, allude to actual local people and happenings of that year. This story is set in the area around in the Phelps Mill, a successful flourmill ... ... more -
by Jan Smith
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This book continues Nivek's story in 1898. Leaving his family's homestead, Nivek becomes a newspaper correspondent during the Spanish-American War. Together with his boyhood friends, Wing, an Ojibwa Indian, and Jesse, from Medora, North Dakota, the young men travel across country by horseback, train, and stagecoach to join Theodore Roosevelt and the ... ... more -
by Mary Dodge Woodward
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Mary Dodge Woodward, a fifty-six-year-old widow and Vermonter by birth, moved from Vermont to Wisconsin, and then — with her two grown sons and a daughter — to a 1280 to 1500-acre bonanza wheat farm in Dakota Territory's Red River Valley in 1882. Woodward had the house they lived in moved more ... ... more -
by Richard Moe
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Minnesota, the newest state in the Union, became the first to send volunteers to fight in the Civil War. That "first" perhaps marked the beginning of Minnesota's ongoing reputation as a very citizen-participatory state. In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln put out a call for troops. Shortly after that, MN Governor Ramsey volunteered 1,000 men ... ... more -
by Rhoda R. Gilman, Carolyn Gilman, and Deborah M. Stultz Paperback If you heard stories about your grandfather taking the oxcart to St. Cloud for supplies and being gone for two weeks, this book, recently re-issued by the Minnesota Historical Society Press, is for you. It traces the paths running through Minnesota, North Dakota and Canada that ... ... more