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Subtitle: the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history.
Contributors: Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder, 1865-1935, ed.
Edition: 2d ed. Authentic incidents gleaned from the old settlers, by the Book committee.
Publisher: The F.H. McCulloch printing co.]
Published: 1914
Place of publication: [Austin, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota
Description: This is an anthology of anecdotes about the Minnesota frontier, dating primarily from the 1840s and 1850s. The material seems to have been collected directly from original settlers who were still alive in the early twentieth century. There are abundant descriptions of early logging operations, agriculture, building practices, plagues, infestations, flora and fauna, and floods. Accounts of local culture range from descriptions of Indian-white relations to boarding-house life, foodways, dances and other festivities. Several settlers were attracted to Minnesota for the celebrated health of its climate; others recall its life-threatening cold.
Notes: On verso of t.-p.: Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris, editor.

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