Title: A treasury of Minnesota tales /
Authors: Garrison, Webb, 1919-2000.
Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Minnesota Biography Anecdotes.; Minnesota Anecdotes.
Abstract: In this collection of Minnesota stories you will learn such stuff as: A stone marker found in 1899 that may prove Vikings visited Minnesota in 1362 ; why Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond for Minnesota ; where Garrison Keillor got the name for "A prairie home companion" ; and much more!
Contents: Mavericks, strays, and zealots (Jim Root : a railroad record -- Lewis Cass : treaty maker -- A person unknown : the Kensington stone -- George Catlin : awed onlooker -- Samuel Conner Pandolfo : Detroit on the Mississippi -- Henry David Thoreau : in search of health -- Joseph L. Heyward : bankers' hero) -- Unforeseen consequences (John Charles Fremont : jumping-off place -- Dred Scott : political pawn -- Garrison Keillor : Lake Wobegon -- Bison herds : no home on the range -- Billy Graham : fate or providence? -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : cultural exchange -- George A. Hormel : hard work pays off)