Title: Bring warm clothes : letters and photos from Minnesota's past /
Authors: Meier, Peg, 1946-
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: American letters Minnesota.; Minnesota History Sources.; Minnesota Social life and customs Sources.; Minnesota History Pictorial works.; Minnesota Biography.
Abstract: Collection of personal stories told through the form of letters, diaries, drawings & photographs, depicting every day life in Minnesota from the beginning of the 19th century to the dawn of World War II.
Contents: Pre-history -- 1700s -- (Jonathan Carver, English explorer -- Peter Pond, explorer and trader -- John Macdonell, fur trader) -- 1800s -- (George Nelson, 16-year-old apprentice clerk in the fur trade) -- 1820s -- (Lawrence Taliaferro, Indian agent -- James Colhoun, explorer) -- 1830s -- (Nathan Jarvis, army surgeon -- William T. Boutwell, missionary -- Edmund and Catharine Ely, missionaries to the Indians -- Mathias Loras, Catholic bishop -- Joseph Nicollet, map maker) -- 1840s -- (John and Ann North, settlers on Nicollet Island -- Gustavus Otto, army private -- William Brown, farmer) -- 1850s -- (The Fuller family, socialites in early St. Paul -- Daniel Fisher, seminarian teaching in St. Paul -- Andrew Peterson, homesteader in Waconia Township -- Harriet Griswold, widowed in Cambridge -- H.P. Van Cleve, surveyor in Stearns County -- Harriett Nichols, unmarried missionary in Morrison County -- Jane Grey Swisshelm, St. Cloud newspaper publisher and feminist) -- 1860s -- (J. Madison Bowler, in love in St. Anthony) -- Civil War -- (Sam Bloomer, Stillwater soldier -- Matthew Marvin, Winona farmer turned sergeant -- William Christie, Olmstead County soldier -- Isaac Taylor, volunteer) -- Dakota War -- (Henry Whipple, Episcopal bishop of Minnesota -- Taoyateduta, Dakota leader -- Henry Sibley, leader of the expedition to put down the Indian war -- Eli Pickett, observer of the Indian hangings -- John Faith, St. Peter newspaper publisher)