Books about minnesota history

Minnesota's written history only goes back to the 1600s, when the first European visitors first recorded the locations of native American populations. The ancestors of those Americans are Minnesota's prehistoric people. This book illustrates what archaelogists have discovered in this area.

With photographs and maps, this guide to the state's canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the great fur traders, voyageurs, Indians, and loggers who passed that way.

In 1851 Frank Blackwell Mayer, a talented young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota Territory to attend the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux between the Dakota Indians and the United States government. He went, notes Bertha Heilbron in the introduction, not to participate in the negotiations, but to observe Indian life at first hand and to find subjects for his brush and ...

Cats rule the world, humans are our slaves... We are independent, proud, disdainful... and very, very cute. This title talks about how adorable the cats are.

Authoritative discussion of Dakota Indian material culture and the social, political, religious, and economic institutions by a missionary who spent nearly twenty years learning the language and living among Indians in Minnesota.

Spokesman for the Sioux.

Richly illustrated with more than sixty black-and-white and color paintings, photographs, and maps, this book tells the story of the fort from its planning in the early 1800s to its reconstruction in the 196Os.

The definitive history of the First Minnesota Regiment and one of a handful of classic regimental histories of the Civil War.