Lost Minnesota

Lost Minnesota
Author: Jack El-Hai
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 228
Release:
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781452904641

Tells the stories behind 89 of the lost buildings and landmarks of Minnesota, from rural and small-town Minnesota, as well as from the state's metropolitan and suburban areas.

Lost Twin Cities

Lost Twin Cities
Author: Larry Millett
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0873512731

1993 American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award

Minnesota's Lost Towns

Minnesota's Lost Towns
Author: Rhonda Fochs
Publisher: Minnesota's Lost Towns
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780878398041

The second book in the Minnesota's lost towns series by Rhonda Fochs covers more than 125 central Minnesota locations, once found in twenty-six of Minnesota's central corridor counties. "Read how the towns were created, how they developed and lived, and why they died. Discover the people and places of Minnesota's past."--From page 4 of cover.

Minnesota Mayhem

Minnesota Mayhem
Author: Ben Welter
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 161423504X

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 strange. Among the true tales told in these pages, Welter recounts the career of a successful con man in 1871; an 1881 fire that destroyed the State Capitol; a flu outbreak that killed more than 10,000 Minnesotans in 1918; the arrest of Frank Lloyd Wright at a Lake Minnetonka cottage in 1926; an arrested stripper who claimed wardrobe malfunction in 1953; and the 1977 murder of a wealthy matron in Duluth.

Wisconsin's Lost Towns

Wisconsin's Lost Towns
Author: Rhonda Fochs
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781682010587

Wisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places began in northern Wisconsin, and in this book, she explores the stories and tales of Wisconsin's places of the past.

Historic Photos of Minnesota

Historic Photos of Minnesota
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1618584065

Minnesota’s past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers. From the fur trade and the establishment of Fort Snelling, to harnessing the power of the Mississippi River as a means to fuel emergent logging and milling industries, Minnesota’s history is that of a land like no other. Pioneering Minnesotans embraced everything that the sprawling prairies, rich farmlands, and more than 10,000 lakes offered. Boomtowns and small towns sprang up and were connected to the thriving metropolises of Minneapolis and St. Paul through a great labyrinth of railways. From the time photographers first started pointing their cameras in the direction of Minnesota’s land and people, crystallized moments from the state’s history were captured, and stories preserved. The archival images collected in Historic Photos of Minnesota offer unique insights into the state’s not-so-distant past. Spanning more than 100 years, this book documents everyday lives and significant events in Minnesota’s extraordinary history.

Minnesota's Lost Towns

Minnesota's Lost Towns
Author: Rhonda Fochs
Publisher: Minnesota's Lost Towns
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781682010303

Pack your bags and come along as we journey to over 125 lost towns in Southern Minnesota. Read how the Civil War, changes in transportation, county seat disputes and other historical happenings changed Minnesota's landscape. Learn how and why lost towns and communities were created, how they thrived and why they eventually faded into history. Visit the people and places of Southern Minnesota in this fourth edition of the Minnesota's Lost Towns series. Be sure to check out the other titles in the series: Northern, Central, and Northern II.

Larry Gets Lost in the Twin Cities

Larry Gets Lost in the Twin Cities
Author: Michael Mullin
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1570617546

In Larry the adorable pooch's latest adventure, he goes on vacation with Pete and his family to Minneapolis/St. Paul. As usual, in hot pursuit of a tempting treat, he gets separated from his family and frantically tries to find them again. Along the way he discovers some of the city's most fun and interesting landmarks and cultural attractions, including: Mall of America Hiawatha Line (light rail) Metrodome Mary Tyler Moore statue Skyways Minnehaha Falls Foshay Tower Mill Ruins Park St. Anthony Falls/locks The New Guthrie Theater Walker Art Center sculpture park (Spoonbridge) Lake Harriet (St. Paul) High Bridge Rice Park (Peanuts sculptures) Mickey's Diner Summit Avenue

Wintering

Wintering
Author: Peter Geye
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101969997

A true epic: a love story that spans sixty years, generations’ worth of feuds, and secrets withheld and revealed. One day, elderly, demented Harry Eide steps out of his sickbed and disappears into the brutal, unforgiving Minnesota wilderness that surrounds his hometown of Gunflint. It's not the first time Harry has vanished. Thirty-odd years earlier, in 1963, he'd fled his marriage with his eighteen-year-old-son Gustav in tow. He'd promised Gustav a rambunctious adventure, two men taking on the woods in winter. With Harry gone for the second (and last) time, unable to survive the woods he'd once braved, his son Gus, now grown, sets out to relate the story of their first disappearance--bears and ice floes and all--to Berit Lovig, an old woman who shares a special, if turbulent, bond with Harry. Wintering is a thrilling adventure story wrapped in the deep, dark history of a rural town.

Abandoned Southern Minnesota

Abandoned Southern Minnesota
Author: Julie Bronson
Publisher: America Through Time
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781634991759

Join author Julie Bronson on a nostalgic journey to the farmhouses, barns, and other outbuildings of yesteryear. Each structure is unique in character and was carefully constructed to stand the test of time, until they're abandoned. Julie shows us, through her sensitive photojournalism, the progression of their inevitable deterioration. Her photos demonstrate the beauty of structures we don't normally notice, as we speed past them from 55 to 70 miles-per-hour. Whenever possible, she will take us inside the houses, barns, sheds, and sometimes silos to see what lies hidden in them. She investigates places others might miss and finds beautiful craftsmanship in all corners. She takes her time during these visits, in order to honor those who went before, by depicting the love and care that went into creating these long-forgotten homes. She patiently listens to the whispers of the wind making its way through the broken windows and doors, hoping to hear laughter or perhaps a voice from the past. Step back in time with Julie and join her on an adventure through Abandoned Southern Minnesota.