Minnesota mayhem
Subtitle: a history of calamitous events, horrific accidents, dastardly crime and dreadful behavior in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes
By: Ben Welter
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781609495978
Subjects: Anecdotes; History
Description: "Turn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota's past and explore the best of the state's worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers. These stories and photos, culled from the Star Tribune's microfilm archive by author Ben Welter, range from the catastrophic to the merely curious. From a fire that destroyed the State Capitol in 1881, to a wordless fistfight that broke out on a Minneapolis street in 1898, a flu outbreak that killed more than 10,000 Minnesotans in 1918 and the arrest of Frank Lloyd Wright at a Lake Minnetonka cottage in 1926." --Publisher description.