Entrepreneurs and immigrants
Subtitle: life on the industrial frontier of northeastern Minnesota
By: [edited by Michael G. Karni]
Publisher: Iron Range Research Center
Published: 1991
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Immigrants; History; Iron mines and mining
Description: "The essays which appear in this volume were originally read at two conferences held in Chisholm, Minnesota, at the Iron Range Research Center...to provide insight into the histories of a small portion of the area's forty-three immigrant groups who came to northeastern Minnesota during the boom years between 1884 and World War I...." -- Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tuteshi: understanding the historical evolution of Iron Rangers / Robert F. Harney; title: Men of the thick fir woods: Bois Fort Indians of the Vermilion / Carl Gawboy; title: The Vermilion Lake gold rush, 1865-1866 / Dana Miller; title: Charlemagne Tower and the Minnesota legislature / Carl Norberg; title: From art to science: mining at Soudan (1882-1924) / Marvin G. Lamppa; title: From Tower to Soudan: townsites and locations on the Vermilion Iron Range / Arnold R. Alanen; title: Carrying the burden: an historical reminiscence of Vermilion Range women / Lynn Maria Laitala; title: Minnesota Finns looking at themselves / A. William Hoglund; title: From Michigan to Minnesota: the internal migration of Italian miners / Russell M. Magnaghi; title: Jewish settlers on Minnesota's Iron Ranges, 1889-1924 / Marilyn J. Chiat; title: The Cornish: a mining elite / Carlton C. Qualey; title: Reclaiming a heritage: the Norwegians in northeastern Minnesota / Kenneth Smemo; title: Crots and Serbs on Minnesota's Iron Range / Branko M. Colakovic.