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The WPA Guide to Minnesota: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota
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by Federal Writers' Project, Frederick Manfred (Introduction)
Federal Writers' Project
The WPA Guide to Minnesota: The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota
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by Federal Writers' Project, Frederick Manfred (Introduction)
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In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the federal government put thousands of unemployed writers to work in the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions of each state in the union.
The WPA Guide to Minnesota is a lively and detailed introduction to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book's first publication in 1938 when, as the authors noted, some Minnesotans could "clearly recall . . . the sight of browsing buffalo herds, and the creaking of thong-tied Red River carts." But the book vividly recaptures the era when annual fishing licenses cost fifty cents, farmers ran barn dances for motoring townfolk, Duluth was the headquarters of the Hay Fever Club of America, and the nearly new Foshay Tower loomed on the Minneapolis skyline.
The guide has much more than nostalgia to offer today's readers. Twenty auto tours and six special city tours tell the stories of the state's people and places and offer a fascinating alternative to freeway travel. Essays on major themes such as native peoples, history, arts, transportation, and sports provide an authentic self-portrait of 1930s Minnesota in humorous, loving, and literary prose.
This time-travelers' guide to Minnesota is an evocative reminder of the state's past and a challenge to contemporary readers who seek to find how that past lives on today.
Special features include 20 road trips, 6 city tours, 15 boundary waters canoe trips, 12 maps, 22 drawings, an introduction by the renowned Midwestern writer Frederick Manfred, a chronology, and a revised bibliography.
The WPA Guide to Minnesota is a lively and detailed introduction to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book's first publication in 1938 when, as the authors noted, some Minnesotans could "clearly recall . . . the sight of browsing buffalo herds, and the creaking of thong-tied Red River carts." But the book vividly recaptures the era when annual fishing licenses cost fifty cents, farmers ran barn dances for motoring townfolk, Duluth was the headquarters of the Hay Fever Club of America, and the nearly new Foshay Tower loomed on the Minneapolis skyline.
The guide has much more than nostalgia to offer today's readers. Twenty auto tours and six special city tours tell the stories of the state's people and places and offer a fascinating alternative to freeway travel. Essays on major themes such as native peoples, history, arts, transportation, and sports provide an authentic self-portrait of 1930s Minnesota in humorous, loving, and literary prose.
This time-travelers' guide to Minnesota is an evocative reminder of the state's past and a challenge to contemporary readers who seek to find how that past lives on today.
Special features include 20 road trips, 6 city tours, 15 boundary waters canoe trips, 12 maps, 22 drawings, an introduction by the renowned Midwestern writer Frederick Manfred, a chronology, and a revised bibliography.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780873517126 |
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Publisher: | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Publication date: | 06/01/2010 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 546 |
File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
The Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created by the federal government during the Great Depression to put thousands of unemployed writers to work.
Frederick Manfred was one of the most prolific and well-regarded novelists in the Upper Midwest
Table of Contents
List of Maps | xiii | |
Introduction | xv | |
Using the Guide | xxi | |
Preface | xxiii | |
General Information | xxv | |
Part I. | Minnesota: Past and Present | |
Minnesota Today | 3 | |
Natural Setting | 8 | |
Climate | ||
Geology | ||
Paleontology | ||
Flora | ||
Fauna | ||
Conservation | ||
First Americans | 27 | |
Archeology | ||
Indians | ||
Historical Survey | 42 | |
Wilderness to Commonwealth | ||
Territorial Expansion | ||
The New State | ||
After 1900 | ||
Government | ||
Agriculture and Farm Life | 68 | |
Immigration and Racial Elements | 74 | |
Tides of Immigration | ||
Racial Groups | ||
Transportation | 81 | |
Industrial Development | 89 | |
Lumbering | ||
Milling | ||
Mining | ||
Quarrying | ||
Meat Packing | ||
Commercial Fishing | ||
Labor and Labor Relations | ||
Co-operatives | ||
Education and Religion | 110 | |
Press and Radio | 120 | |
Sports and Recreation | 126 | |
The Arts | 132 | |
Architecture | ||
Literature | ||
Music | ||
Painting | ||
Sculpture | ||
Part II. | Minnesota: Cities and Towns | |
The Tale of Two Cities | 153 | |
Minneapolis | 166 | |
St. Paul | 206 | |
Duluth | 235 | |
St. Cloud | 255 | |
Winona | 262 | |
Rochester | 270 | |
Part III. | Minnesota: Tours | |
Tour 1. | (Port Arthur, Ontario)-Duluth-Pine City-St. Paul-Red Wing-Winona-La Crescent-(La Crosse, Wis.); [Ontario 61 and US 61] | 281 |
Section a. | Port Arthur-Duluth | 282 |
Section b. | Duluth-St. Paul | 290 |
Section c. | St. Paul-Wisconsin Line | 297 |
Tour 2. | Junction with State II-Bemidji-Wadena-Sauk Center-Willmar-Redwood Falls-Windom-Jackson-(Spencer, Iowa); [US 71] | 307 |
Tour 3. | Junction with US 53-Hibbing-Grand Rapids-Minneapolis-Mankato-Blue Earth-Elmore-(Fort Dodge, Iowa); [US 169] | 318 |
Section a. | Junction with US 53-Minneapolis | 320 |
Section b. | Minneapolis-Iowa Line | 328 |
Tour 4. | (Winnipeg, Manitoba)-Noyes-Crookston-Moorhead-Breckenridge-Ortonville-Pipestone-Luverne-(Sioux City, Iowa); [US 75] | 334 |
Section a. | Canadian Border (Noyes)-Moorhead | 335 |
Section b. | Moorhead-Ortonville | 339 |
Section c. | Ortonville-Iowa Line | 340 |
Tour 5. | (Ft. Frances, Ontario)-International Falls-Cook-Virginia-Eveleth-Duluth-(Superior, Wis.); [US 53] | 343 |
Tour 6. | (Ft. Frances, Ontario)-International Falls-Baudette-Warroad-Roseau-Greenbush-Donaldson-(Drayton, N. Dak.); [State 11] | 348 |
Tour 7. | (Superior, Wis.)-Duluth-Grand Rapids-Bemidji-Crookston-East Grand Forks-(Grand Forks, N. Dak.); [US 2] | 356 |
Section a. | Wisconsin Line (Duluth)-Bemidji | 356 |
Section b. | Bemidji-North Dakota Line | 361 |
Tour 8. | Junction with US 61-Finland-Ely-Tower-Cook; [State 1] | 364 |
Tour 9. | (Burr Oak, Iowa)-Rochester-Zumbrota-Twin Cities-Anoka-St. Cloud-Alexandria-Fergus Falls-Moorhead-(Fargo, N. Dak.); [US 52] | 369 |
Section a. | Iowa Line-Minneapolis | 369 |
Section b. | Minneapolis-North Dakota Line | 375 |
Tour 10. | (Hudson, Wis.)-Twin Cities-Delano-Litchfield-Willmar-Benson-Ortonville-(Aberdeen, S. Dak.); [US 12] | 382 |
Tour 11. | Twin Cities-Chaska-Granite Falls-Montevideo-Dawson-(Watertown, S. Dak.); [US 212] | 388 |
Tour 12. | (La Crosse, Wis.)-La Crescent-Winona-Rochester-Owatonna-Mankato-New Ulm-Tracy-Lake Benton-(Huron, S. Dak.); [US 14] | 396 |
Tour 13. | (La Crosse, Wis.)-La Crescent-Preston-Austin-Albert Lea-Blue Earth-Fairmont-Worthington-Luverne-(Sioux Falls, S. Dak.); [US 16] | 407 |
Tour 14. | Minneapolis-Farmington-Northfield-Faribault-Owatonna-Albert Lea-(Northwood, Iowa); [US 65] | 417 |
Tour 15. | Junction with US 61-Aitkin-Crosby-Brainerd-Motley; [US 210] | 425 |
Tour 16. | (Prescott, Wis.)-St. Paul-East St. Cloud-Little Falls-Staples-Detroit Lakes-Moorhead-(Fargo, N. Dak.); [US 10] | 429 |
Tour 17. | St. Vincent-Thief River Falls-Detroit Lakes-Fergus Falls-Montevideo-Marshall-Worthington-(Cherokee, Iowa); [US 59] | 442 |
Section a. | St. Vincent-Detroit Lakes | 443 |
Section b. | Detroit Lakes-Iowa Line | 447 |
Tour 18. | (Ellsworth, Wis.)-Red Wing-Lake City-Zumbro Falls Rochester-Spring Valley-(Waterloo, Iowa); [US 63] | 451 |
Tour 19. | (St. Croix Falls, Wis.)-Taylors Falls-Center City-Forest Lake-Minneapolis; [US 8] | 453 |
Tour 20. | Bemidji-Cass Lake-Walker-Brainerd-Little Falls; [US 371] | 460 |
Superior National Forest and Canoe Trips | 465 | |
Canoe Trip 1. | International Boundary Route from Gunflint Area | 469 |
McFarland Lake | ||
Mountain Lake | ||
Rose Lake | ||
Gunflint Lake | ||
Saganaga Lake | ||
Cypress Lake | ||
Big Knife Lake | ||
Prairie Portage | ||
Upper Basswoods Falls | ||
Table Rock or Skull and Crossbones Campsites | ||
Crooked Lake | ||
Iron Lake | ||
Shortiss Island (Lac La Croix) | ||
Near Coleman Island (Lac La Croix) | ||
Group of Islands (on northwest end of Lac La Croix) | ||
South end of Lac La Croix | ||
Loon Lake | ||
Vermilion Narrows | ||
Canoe Trip 2. | From Gunflint Area | 471 |
East Bearskin Lake | ||
Clearwater Lake | ||
McFarland Lake | ||
East Bearskin Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 3. | From Gunflint Area | 472 |
Poplar Lake | ||
Winchell Lake | ||
Brule Lake | ||
Cherokee Lake | ||
Long Island Lake | ||
Henson Lake | ||
Poplar Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 4. | From Gunflint Area | 473 |
Round Lake or Cross River | ||
Tuscarora Lake | ||
Little Saganaga Lake | ||
Frazer Lake | ||
Kekekabic Lake | ||
Sea Gull Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 5. | From Gunflint Area | 475 |
Sea Gull Lake | ||
Red Rock Lake | ||
Sea Gull Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 6. | From Gunflint Area | 475 |
Sawbill Lake | ||
Polly Lake | ||
Little Saganaga Lake | ||
Snip Lake | ||
Cherokee Lake | ||
Sawbill Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 7. | From Ely Area | 477 |
Lake One | ||
Lake Three | ||
Hudson Lake | ||
North Kawishiwi River | ||
Polly Lake | ||
Parent Lake | ||
Isabella Lake | ||
Isabella River | ||
Bald Eagle Lake | ||
South Kawishiwi River | ||
Lake One | ||
Canoe Trip 8. | From Ely Area | 479 |
White Iron Lake or Silver Rapids | ||
Clear Lake | ||
Birch Lake | ||
White Iron Lake or Silver Rapids | ||
Canoe Trip 9. | From Ely Area | 479 |
Fall Lake or Winton | ||
Bass Wood Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 10. | From Ely Area | 480 |
Burntside Lake | ||
Fenske Lake | ||
Grassy Lake | ||
Murphy Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 11. | From Ely Area | 481 |
Burntside Lake | ||
Big Lake | ||
Stuart Lake | ||
Boulder River | ||
Canoe Trip 12. | From Ely Area | 482 |
Burntside Lake | ||
Cummings Lake | ||
Moose Lake | ||
Nina Moose Lake | ||
Lake Agnes | ||
Canoe Trip 13. | From Ely Area | 483 |
Moose Lake | ||
Ensign Lake | ||
Thomas Lake | ||
Kekekabic Lake | ||
Knife Lake | ||
Canoe Trip 14. | From Tower Area | 484 |
Vermilion Lake | ||
Little Trout Lake | ||
Little Indian Sioux River Campsite | ||
East Bay of Loon Lake | ||
Lac La Croix | ||
Canoe Trip 15. | From Tower Area | 485 |
Vermilion Lake | ||
Vermilion Dam | ||
Vermilion River | ||
Crane Lake | ||
Part IV. | Appendices | |
Chronology | 489 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 498 | |
Index | 504 |
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