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

• Autore: Tice D. J
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.6/05
• Soggetto geografico: Minnesota History 20th century; Minnesota History 20th century Anecdotes; Minnesota Biography Anecdotes
• Note generali: "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.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Minnesota's Twentieth Century
• ISBN: 0-8166-5297-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812931503321
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