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The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the world…and right in their own backyards. ... Read more

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Landscapes of Minnesota
This book is wonderful.I actually had the opportunity to take a class from Professor Hart back in the early 1980s, and I thought he was a solid professor of geography.This book confirms that.

Geographers must be multidisciplinarians and Professor Hart is no exceptions.History, ecology, agronomy, economics, geology, biology, climatology, meteorology, sociology all make their way into this book and into the realm of geography.The skill of the geographer is to acknowledge all of these other disciplines and deal with them appropriately.Professor Hart does this with a master's touch.

I did pick up on three errors, however.On page 66 Hart describes the Treaty of Utrecht of 1815.Utrecht was signed in 1713, the Congress of Vienna was in 1815.On page 268 he writes that the Metrodome opened in 1989, when in fact it opened in 1982.Finally, on page 272 he writes that 3M's corporate headquarters are in Washington County, Minnesota when in fact it is in Maplewood in Ramsey County.But these oversights do not detract from an otherwise spectacular book.

I would expect that this book will become the standard college textbook for courses in Minnesota geography for years to come.

An ideal template and example for similar studies of other states.
The geography of a land is as important as its climate in determining the kind of ecosystems it will support, the growth patterns of the human populace and their activities, the sort of lives and livelihoods that will be fostered. To understand a state's history, it is always useful to understand its geography. The collaborative work of John Fraser Hart (Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota) and Susy Svatek Ziegler (Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota), "Landscapes Of Minnesota" is a comprehensive survey of this upper Midwest state's geography, including its impact upon the people, the land, and the Minnesota economy. The informed and informative text is enhanced for the reader with the added inclusion of 110 color photographs, 100 maps, 30 graphs, 10 line drawings, tables, extensive notes, a glossary, and an index. Also available in a hardcover edition (9780873516112, $34.95), "Landscapes Of Minnesota" is a work of impressive scholarship and ideal as a textbook. While highly recommended for personal, academic and community library reference collections, "Landscapes of Minnesota" would also serve as an ideal template and example for similar studies of other states. ... Read more

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Minnesota's Changing Geography was first published in 1959.This book is intended to help children understand how the state of Minnesota developed as it did, what it looks like today, and why. The story, pictures, and maps tell of Minnesota's changing geography, but the subject embraces a good deal that lies beyond the boundaries of one state. The settlement of the land, its industry and commerce, its climate - these and other parts of the story give young readers perspective to see Minnesota as part of the larger community of the nation and the world. By showing how the land and its use have changed, the book also helps children to realize that their environment is not static, but constantly changing.In each section of the book, the author describes the characteristic features of a major region or settlement of the state. He shows why the dairy region, the corn belt, the timber country, the mining range, and other important economic areas developed in their distinctive ways. He describes the various kinds of settlements to be seen in the state - farm-trade villages, towns, cities, and suburbs. He traces the networks of transportation - rail routes, waterways, truck routes, pipelines, airways, and city traffic. Finally, he explains the elements of local, state, and federal government.A series of tables at the back of the book provides statistics on Minnesota's population, county by county, on area, temperature, and rainfall, and significant dates in the state's history.For children in the classroom, in the library, or at home, here is Minnesota in its physical, real-life sense, presented as a part of a large and changing world. Readable, authentic, up-to-date, the book was prepared with the help of consultants from the Minneapolis public schools. ... Read more

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Great History/Maps/Minnesota Book!
Saw this book in my college's quarterly magazine, as it was put out by a Macalester alum.Got it as a Xmas gift for my parents, so I didn't look at it that much.But they told me they absolutely loved it and it's really interesting.Nice balance of photos and text.My mom was especially impressed that Native American history was properly addressed.I purchased the book new and thought the price was fair.

Wish for even more
Great volume for the price: excellent array of maps, especially promotional/tourist maps, of Minnesota from years past & (near-)present.Details often shown as insets just whet my appetite for seeing more.Originals must be truly fascinating.Probably for the price and size of reproduction this is the best that can be managed. ... Read more

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Statistics say most kids know less geography than ever -don't let that apply to your students!Start by making sure kids know themain places & geographic features in their own state.Give themactivities that pretend they are taking a cross-state bike tour, using freefootball game passes, jogging through the state, etc. - & they'll find theirway around in a hurry!Geography activities include info on Minnesotacounties, rivers, museums, historic places, sites of interest, colleges,bordering states, climate, topography, crops and more, all ready toreproduce!Approximately 30 activities and 200 geography-related placesand facts are covered.Students work alone or in groups and use maps,reference books or resource people to complete challenging riddles,matching games, word searches, fill-in lists, scavenger hunts, andcompletion exercises that reinforce learning, sharpen research skills, andprovide a lively introduction to Minnesota.Free teacher's guide givesspecific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational valuefrom this book.Geography is critical - make learning it fun! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Within Minnesota's borders you will find such exotic place names as Amor and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland, Looneyville and Nimrod, Flour Lake and the Diarrhoea River, Great Scott and Eureka, Home and Nowhere, Moonshine and Whiskey Creek, Stringtown and Pig's Eye, Snowball and North Pole, Embarrass and Kiester, Coin and Money Creek, and Chickentown and Bull Moose. But how did these places get such unusual names? Wonder no longer as Michael Fedo relates the curious and prosaic ways in which a place gets named. Place names tell a rich history of how our state was settled. This compact guide presents the fascinating stories behind over 1,200 Minnesota place names. Included are all the names you would expect -- counties, larger towns and cities, major lakes and rivers -- as well as the curious and odd. This concise guide is the perfect companion for anyone who travels the highways and waterways of the North Star state. ... Read more

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Chapters: Red River Trails. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Red River Trails were a network of ox cart routes connecting the Red River Colony (the "Selkirk Settlement") and Fort Garry in British North America with the head of navigation on the Mississippi River in the United States. These trade routes ran from the location of present-day Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba across the international border and by a variety of routes across what is now the eastern part of North Dakota and western and central Minnesota to Mendota and Saint Paul, Minnesota on the Mississippi. Travellers began to use the trails by the 1820s, with the heaviest use from the 1840s to the early 1870s, when they were superseded by railways. Until then, these cartways provided the most efficient means of transportation between the isolated Red River Colony and the outside world. They gave the Selkirk colonists and their neighbours, the people, an outlet for their furs and a source of supplies other than the Hudson's Bay Company, which was unable to enforce its monopoly in the face of the competition that used the trails. Free traders, independent of the Hudson's Bay Company and outside its jurisdiction, developed extensive commerce with the United States, making Saint Paul the principal entrepôt and link to the outside world for the Selkirk Settlement. The trade developed by and along the trails connecting Fort Garry with Saint Paul stimulated commerce, contributed to the settlement of Minnesota and North Dakota in the United States, and accelerated the settlement of Canada to the west of the rugged barrier known as the Canadian Shield. For a time, this cross-border trade even threatened Canada's control of its western territories. The threat diminished aft...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10942685 ... Read more