03237nam 2200469Ia 450 991081293150332120200520144314.00-8166-5297-X(CKB)1000000000346931(EBL)310460(OCoLC)174131424(MiAaPQ)EBC310460(EXLCZ)99100000000034693119990428d1999 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMinnesota's twentieth century stories of extraordinary everyday people /D.J. Tice1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19991 online resource (221 p.)"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.0-8166-3428-9 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 ReservationDUST 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 MinneapolisROOT CAUSES: The Farm Crisis That Never EndedOne 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 MinnesotaHistory20th centuryMinnesotaHistory20th centuryAnecdotesMinnesotaBiographyAnecdotes977.6/05Tice D. J1725128MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812931503321Minnesota's Twentieth Century4127774UNINA