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  • Minnesota Mayhem

    A History of Calamitous Events, Horrific Accidents, Dastardly Crime & Dreadful Behavior in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes

    by Ben Welter ...
    This true crime history recounts more than a century of crime, deviousness, and disaster in the North Star State.In Minnesota Mayhem, local historian and author Ben Welter explores the best of the state's worst moments. Culled from the archives of the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers, these stories and photos range from the catastrophic to the chillingly curious and the simply ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Minnesota Moxie

    True Tales of Courage, Muscle & Grit in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes

    by Ben Welter ...
    Minnesotans are a tough lot, capable of pulling a house six miles by muscle alone or giving birth to a sixteen-pound boy. In 1921, young Phoebe Fairgrave set a parachute world record, stepping off the wing of a biplane 15,200 feet above the Twin Cities. In 1962, the last powerhouse Gophers football team brought home the Rose Bowl trophy. A year later, thirteen-year-old Jean Webb of Minneapolis ... Read more

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    Building the transcontinental railroad was America's greatest feat of the 19th century. This book chronicles the first three years of construction during which crews crossed Nebraska. Starting from Omaha the "Oxbow" route meant much sought after early money. The faltering progress toward Fremont highlighted the need for better planning and tight organization, a challenge met when the Casement ... Read more

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  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be

    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    by Mark Binelli ...
    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to ... Read more

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  • Lake Superior's Historic North Shore

    A Guided Tour

    Lake Superior's North Shore—the vast stretch between Duluth and Grand Portage—is nearly 150 miles long, with an abundance of state parks, state and national forests, streams and rivers, and more than thirty distinct communities representing a broad range of ethnic and religious groups. Many visitors have made the famous drive along scenic Highway 61, the central artery of this popular vacation ... Read more

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  • Boom, Bust, Exodus

    The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities

    Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy. Political elites and policy experts were bewildered by combative talk of building a wall and the ubiquity of anti-TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) sloganeering in what many saw as a bizarre election cycle. They have scrambled to explain both ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to Minnesota

    The North Star State

    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to South Dakota

    The Prairie State

    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Bald Knobbers

    Chronicles of Vigilante Justice

    This account of nineteenth-century Missouri vigilantes is "a first rate adventure story [and] an extremely valuable study of the roots of violence in America" (Gary Paulsen, Newbery Medal–winning author of Hatchet).In the 1880s, the Ozark hills around Taney County, Missouri, echoed with the sound of Winchester rifles. Men were lynched from tree limbs by masked night riders. Bundles of switches ... Read more

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  • Who Killed the Candy Lady?

    Unwrapping the Unsolved Murder of Helen Brach

    by James Ylisela ...
    A deep dive that "has brought together all the evidence" in the fascinating cold case of a millionaire widow, the Chicago horse mafia, and murder ( Daily Mail).Thirty-five years ago, Helen Brach walked out of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and vanished without a trace. By all accounts, the sixty-five-year-old heiress to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy fortune was in good health. But shortly ... Read more

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  • The WPA Guide to The Minnesota Arrowhead Country

    The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota

    First published in 1941 as part of the American Guide Series, this lively book describes Minnesota's popular northern region. Special features include fifteen canoe trips; five maps; thirty-seven photographs; forty-seven city, town, and village profiles; four road tours; a chronology; a glossary; and a bibliography with updated suggestions for further reading in fiction and nonfiction about the ... Read more

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  • Detroit

    Ragtime and the Jazz Age

    by Jon Milan ...
    Series series Images of America
    Detroit has always been at the forefront of American popular music development, and the ragtime years and jazz age are no exception. The city�s long history of diversity has served the region well, providing a fertile environment for creating and nurturing some of America�s most distinctly indigenous music. With a focus on the people and places that made Detroit a major contributor to America�s ... Read more

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