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A full-scale biography of Henry Hastings Sibley--congressman, army general, and Minnesota's first governor. Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--few people had a longer or more influential role in the shaping of the state of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-91). Sibley's history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the nineteenth-century frontiersman who is at once a trade partner of the Indian/Eur...

A brief and readable overview of the political protest movements that have shaped Minnesota, a state of extremes.

The first full-scale biography of Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), congressman, Army general, and Minnesota's first governor.

An alternative-press history of the 1970s and 1980s.

The Story of Minnesota's Past embraces the broad sweep of change over this land now called Minnesota from glacial ages to the 1980s. A readable and authoritative history for newcomers, oldtimers, and general readers who want to know more about the state's past.

The many difficulties and occasional rewards of early travel and transportation in Minnesota are highlighted in this book, along with the state's relations with what became western Canada and insights into the development of business in Minnesota. The meeting of Indian and European cultures is vividly manifested by the mixed-blood Metis who became the mainstay of the Red River trade.