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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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Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of Minnesota. Also includes a state chronology, pertinent statistics, and maps. ... Read more

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Beautiful Minnesota
Minnesota in winter is both brutal and beautiful. But there's more to it than Prince, hockey, and snow. Minnesota is rich in culture and history. And this little volume will tell you and your students all about it.

The "Portrait of America" series is a terrific introduction for pre-teens to the 50 states and to the places and events that shaped the history of the United States. This "Minnesota" installment is particularly good. The book is broken down into sections like "History", "Culture", "Economy" etc., and each section is thoughtfully written and edited. The "Culture" section is especially good and is very inclusive.

This book, as well as the entire "Portrait of America" series, will prove to be a valuable teaching tool to all primary school educators. ... Read more

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Provides an overview of the history and key personalities of the expansion team that brought professional basketball back to Minnesota in 1989. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, art, and people of the state of Minnesota. ... Read more

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Everything you wanted to know about MN and more!
This book was perfect for my 5th grader's extensive state report on Minnesota!

You have seen the quarter, now read about the state
The quarter for Minnesota is the one currently being produced by the U.S. Mint for its ten-week period as the commemorative quarters being produced from 1999-2008.If you have all of them to date that gives you $8 in change.Of course finding a Minnesota quarter in Minnesota is pretty much impossible at this point (fortunately I know some one who runs a bank).On the other hand if you want to see a lake, we are the place to visit.You probably know that the state's nickname is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but you have probably figured out there are not exactly 10,000 lakes.In fact there are more than 15,000 lakes (but Land of More than 15,000 Lakes does not have the same cache apparently despite the relative accuracy).Martin Hintz explains this in Chapter One, "What's in a Name?" for this volume in the American the Beautiful, Second Series.Young readers will also learn that of all those lakes 11,842 cover more than 10 acres and that with than many to name it is not surprising that there are 156 Long Lakes, 83 Bass Lakes, and at least 3 Swan Lakes for the state's ballerinas.Actually the official state nickname is the North Star State, but since we lost the North Stars to Dallas, where they won the Stanley Cup, that nickname has painful associations (and the Gopher State is not exactly the image we want).

The next three chapters of the book tell the history of the state, beginning with Chapter 2, "The First Minnesotans," which goes all the way back to the Eastern Archaic people of the Copper Culture, the settling of the territory and the steps taken to make Minnesota the 32nd state in 1858.Chapter Three, "The Drawing of a New Age," covers the Civil War, "Little House on the Prairie," and the coming of the railroads.Chapter Three, "Changing Terms," goes from Prohibition to the postwar era.Chapter Five, "Water, Winter, Woods" covers the topography and geographical features of the state, including wildflowers and weasels. "Cities As Varied As the Landscape" is the topic for Chapter Six, while explaining Minnesota politics and former governor Jesse Ventura is the province of Chapter Seven, "A Progressive Government."This is where you find out about the states symbols, including the state muffin being blueberry (I am so proud).

Chapter Eight, "Timber, Wheat, and Tourism," is where you find this book's recipe for Wild Ric Soup (the obvious choice in case you were wondering).Chapter Nine, "A Diverse Group," explains the various ancestors for the states immigrants from the Ojibwa groups to the Scandinavians to the last surge of immigrants consisting of the Hmong people from Laos.The title of Chapter Ten, "'Where All the Women Are Strong...,'" comes from Garrison Keillor's tales about the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon ("the men good looking and all the children are above average") on broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion."This chapter includes famous authors from Sinclair Lewisto F. Scott Fitzgerald, musicians from Bob Dylan to Prince, and whoever is playing quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings.

The back of the book includes a Timeline contrasting U.S. History and Minnesota state history side by side, and several pages of Fast Facts. Throughout the book there are color photographs, original maps, and lots of informative sidebars.This last is where young readers will find some of the most interesting things in the book about Jesse James coming to Minnesota, the legends of Lake Itasca (the true head of the Mississippi River), the Green Giant who eats his vegetables, the Lone Eagle who flew across the Atlantic, and the public servants of the Humphrey family.Hintz lives in Wisconsin, but he does an excellent job of covering the state in all its glory.The only surprise is that when we have the inevitable picture of the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth it is a long distance shot from the Lakefront walkway.I am not sure if I have ever seen a long distance shot of Duluth's iconic symbol in a book before. ... Read more

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Provides a brief history of the team that went to four Super Bowls in the 1970s and a look at some of the Vikings' key players. ... Read more

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Great Book
IT is a great book on the history an accomplishments of the minnesota vikings. it talks about their all-stars in the hall of fame. it is a great "biography " of the vikings. ... Read more

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Surveys the history, geography, and people of and interesting facts about the state known as "The Land of 10,000 Lakes." ... Read more

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Discusses the early history of Minnesota beginning with the Native Americans who have lived there for over six thousand years, through European exploration and settlement, to statehood. ... Read more

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Discusses the land and climate, economy, government, and history of the North Star State. Includes Internet links to Web sites related to Minnesota. ... Read more

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Presents a brief history and description of the Gopher State. ... Read more