North country
Subtitle: the making of Minnesota
By: Mary Lethert Wingerd ; illustrations compiled and annotated by Kirsten Delegard.
Contributors: Delegard, Kirsten.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780816648689
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Minnesota; Borderlands -- Minnesota -- History; Minnesota -- History -- To 1858
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: True north; title: The fortunate land; title: Cultural crossroads; title: Geographies of dominion; title: Shifting ground; title: Highway to the north; title: A world unraveling; title: Drawing boundaries; title: Civilized pursuits; title: Playing for power; title: The roads to war; title: Cataclysm on the Minnesota; title: Epilogue: Pasts remembered, pasts forgotten.