Personality Quizzes. Funny Fill-In. Amazing Animals. Weird But True! Party Animals. Try This! Explore More. Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Southwestern Minnesota is characterized by thick glacial deposits of clay and gravel.
Explore more. Video: 50 Birds, 50 States Barry the bald eagle soars from coast to coast to meet state birds and learn about their homes. Each episode is an animated rap music video focusing on the big cities, history, landmarks, and significant geographical areas of each state. The natural beauty of Minnesota is vividly depicted on the reverse of this new quarter-dollar. Lined with Norway Pine, many of the lakes throughout the State offer much in the way of outdoor recreation, as well as providing a home for the graceful loon, Minnesota's state bird.
This one- million acre wilderness area was established by Congress in , and contains more than 1, miles of canoe routes and nearly 2, designated campsites. For more about the state commemorative quarters, visit this page. Free Press Printing Company, Mahwah, N. Shankle, George Earlie. Irvine, Calif. Shearer, Benjamin F. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 3 Sub edition, Presents information about Minnesota's people, geography, history, landmarks, natural resources, government, state capitol, towns and cities, and more.
Filled with the most up-to-date information, including the latest Census results. Full-color photos bring to life the story of Minnesota.
In addition to an in-depth factual profile of Minnesota in the form of a state Almanac, this book offers fascinating and lively discussions of the state's history, people, geography, government, economy, culture, and lifestyles.
A section on Notable People, a calendar of events, and enough primary source documents, time lines, maps, and other tools to make this unquestionably the best young adult reference material on the USA available anywhere.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1 edition November 1, This handy guide explores famous and not-so-famous aspects of Minnesota's history in lively day-by-day entries. Whether you are a visitor or a lifelong resident, these titbits about noteworthy events and people just might inspire you to explore Minnesota history in greater detail.
Minnesota wouldn't be Minnesota without Bob Dylan. Or the BWCA. Immigrant farmers. The American Indian Movement. Thousands of citizens nominated their favorite topics for inclusion in Minnesota With short essays, eye-catching illustrations, and text from the winning nominations, Kate Roberts reveals the many ways in which our past becomes our collective history.
Read stories from people like former Iron Ranger Brian Weber, who wrote about watching the Olympic hockey team as a young boy: "It makes me think of our neighbor, a miner with a very Finnish last name, who watched all the games with us. Thinking about it now, after the taconite expansion of the early to mids, this was the beginning of the end for the mines up there.
And I think they knew it. But they felt they had a hockey team and a coach that was fighting for us. And hockey mattered. Minnesota evolved from many cultures. By the time the territory was formed in , the first European contacts were nearly two centuries old.
When Minnesota was admitted to the union in , only about one-fourth of its area was occupied by white settlers. In this volume, William Lass tells the story of Minnesota from its beginnings to the present with attention to people's adaptation to Minnesota's oftentimes harsh environment. He relates the persistence and change in the traditional frontier businesses in the twentieth century and describes recent developments in Minnesota society, including rapidly increasing metropolitanism, environmental concerns, and the resurgence of conservatism in politics.
Minnesota's somewhat unique political history, which featured farm protest movements and the ultimate creation of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, is also discussed.
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