Lokale Geschichte

With humor and insight, E. W. Davis tells the story that begins with the discovery of then-valueless taconite on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range in 1870 and several decades of attempts to process taconite commercially. Davis details the ups and downs of the exciting, decades-long research effort that resulted in a workable extraction method, followed by frustrating attempts to form the concentrate into small pellets. Finally, Davis describes building the first successful commercial processing plant at Silver Bay in the 1950s and the contributions by various companies to the birth of the industry. Along the way insider Davis recounts the founding of the three new northern Minnesota taconite towns, Babbitt, Silver Bay, and Hoyt Lakes.

Between 1816 and 1823 Stephen Harriman Long headed five expeditions that traveled 26,000 miles from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains and from the headwaters of the Canadian River in New Mexico to Lake Winnipeg in Canada. This book deals with two of his northern journeys-the only two for which the explorer's personal journals are known to have survived. The 1817 journal describes Long's trip up the Mississippi River to the Falls of St. Anthony at present-day Minneapolis and back down the river to Fort Belle Fontaine on the Missouri. The 1823 journal covers Long's last major exploration, from Philadelphia west across present-day Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and back along fur trade routes in Manitoba and Ontario, through the Great Lakes and newly opened parts of the Erie Canal.The journals reveal the writer's classical education and scientific knowledge. They also reflect the man himself-efficient, logical, concise, meticulous, persevering-a man cheerful in the face of physical discomfort but intolerant of incompetence or irresponsibility on the part of his men.

Minnesota Territory's earliest publications in St. Paul and St. Anthony (now Minneapolis) were known for their "vigorous expression of strong-minded opinion." This lively account of old-style journalism examines the emergence of daily papers and some 100 English- and foreign-language weeklies in the communities beyond the Twin Cities, including the Emigrant Aid Journal of Nininger, the Chatfield Democrat, the Winona Republican, and early St. Cloud newspapers. Finally, author George Hage explores the rise of the state's large metropolitan dailies and the people, issues, and politics that affected their growth. An appendix lists the papers published in Minnesota from 1849 to 1860.

he fame of French scientist and geographer Joseph N. Nicollet rests upon his monumental map and report of the Upper Mississippi Valley. The map, published by the United States government in 1843, remained the foundation of Upper Mississippi cartography until the era of modern surveys.Nicollet's journals illuminate the 1836 trip to the source of the Mississippi and a journey up the St. Croix River in 1837. His day-by-day accounts include careful notes on geographical features, flora and fauna, and the aurora borealis. But above all, his keen observations on the customs and culture of the Ojibwe Indians provide the first systematic recording and a remarkably sympathetic depiction of the people of the area. Martha Bray's introduction and annotation to this translation by André Fertey provide a brief biography of an important figure in American science.

David A. Walker tells the story of the opening of the last iron- ore frontier in the United States on the Vermilion, Mesabi, and Cuyuna ranges of Minnesota-the nation's largest ore deposits. Walker explores the formative years from the 1880s to the early 1900s in the development of the state's mining industry, the iron ore it produced, the new towns it spawned, and the railroads it built to transport the new-found wealth to growing ports on Lake Superior. Drawing on manuscripts, newspaper accounts, and business and financial records, Walker's study provides an economic history of an industry whose dimensions reached far beyond the borders of Minnesota.

Considered the most authoritative history of the state, the four volume set was first published in the 1920s. Volume Four covers special topics on iron mining, public education, Ojibway election procedures, a dozen outstanding Minnesotans and a consolidated index for volumes 1 through 4.

Considered the most authoritative history of the state, this four volume set was first published in the 1920s. Volume One carries the story to 1858.

A charming history of a small, isolated community that once lay on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.

Atkins eloquently portrays the extreme hardships of Minnesota farmers during the grasshopper plagues of the 1870s. She examines local, state, and national relief efforts, which she reviews in the context of nineteenth-century social welfare philosophy.

J. Fletcher Williams' History of St. Paul, first published in 1876, is a thoroughly charming, intimate chronicle of the city's earliest years. The author spins tales of villains, heroes, dark deeds, and progress with wit, irony, and relish. Sprinkled among the careful descriptions of pioneers, city fathers, and important events is a healthy dose of trivia, oddities, and "firsts." Lucile M. Kane's introduction to this edition suggests that the book "to an unusual degree mirrors the man-with all his learning, passion for patient investigation, interest in people, exuberance, dramatic sense, humor, and affection for his adopted city." Minnesota residents, visitors, and students of history will enjoy this insider's view of small-town St. Paul in the 19th century.

Jonathan Carver's Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 became a bestseller in London in the 1780s, and arguments over its author's accuracy and honesty have raged ever since. This book published for the first time the well-known explorer's original account of his expedition.Editor John Parker compares and interweaves the four manuscript versions of Carver's journals discovered in the twentieth century in the British Museum to form the text of this book. Also included are the hitherto unpublished journal of veteran fur trader James Stanley Goddard, who accompanied Carver; related correspondence; a Dakota dictionary; commissions and other records; and a bibliography of major editions of the Travels.In this volume John Parker explains the alleged plagiarism, examines Carver's early life, and offers new information on the land swindle in the Midwest known as the "Carver grant."Editor John Parker was curator of the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota, a collection specializing in early travel and exploration.

Drawing together a century of widely scattered scientific and technical reports, as well as 25 years of first-hand experience in the field, Scott Anfinson provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the arrival of European explorers.Minnesota Prehistoric Archaeology Series #14Focusing on southwestern Minnesota, north-central Iowa, and southeastern South Dakota, the author describes the dramatic environmental changes that occurred during the precontact millennia and their impact on the human, animal, and plant cultures of the region once treated as the insignificant edge of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands.Dr. Anfinson's synthesis reveals how the successions of peoples in this transition region selectively accepted-and denied-influences from the better-known cultures that flourished around them.Archaeologists and historians of Native Americans, as well as amateur and armchair archaeologists, will welcome this valuable addition to the region's geological, natural, and cultural history.

In twenty-one interwoven stories, author Robert Amerson re-creates life on his family's 160-acre farm in the remote Hidewood Hills of eastern South Dakota from 1934 to 1942. Each story, told from the perspective of a family member or farmer neighbor, captures the moods, sounds, sights, and relationships of these rural Americans at a time of tremendous change.Nine-year-old Robert Amerson is a dreamer fascinated by books, airplanes, and cars. As he grows older, he becomes impatient with old-fashioned horse farming, and he struggles to balance his responsibilities to the farm with the attractions of high school and life in town. His father Clarence, a master at making do, labors unceasingly but never seems to get ahead. His mother Bernice, who fights off dark emotions along with frustration at not "having it nice," concentrates her energy on getting her children an education.In this time of Depression-related hardships, edging toward the eve of World War II, co-operation and hard work are key to the survival of small farms. Neighbors join together to butcher hogs, run the one-room school, build roads, thresh grain, and celebrate the landmarks of their lives. They turn out, without fail, to help a family suffering a disaster-filled summer. And they work hard for the means to better their lives with new tractors, gas-powered washing machines, indoor bathrooms, wells that produce good drinking water - and, eventually, rural electrification and milking machines. In From the Hidewood, Amerson has written far more than an "I remember when" account. In exquisite detail, he portrays a particular moment in time with a power that could help many readers better understand their own pasts.

Gentle Warriors tells the moving story of the final phase of the Minnesota women's struggle for the vote under the leadership of the remarkable Clara Ueland. Clara Ueland, socially prominent wife of a successful Minneapolis attorney and mother of seven children, became president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association in 1914. To that challenge she brought considerable skills acquired as a teacher, a household manager, and a community activist. She was a new woman of her time: politically astute, enormously competent, and widely respected. Under her leadership, enthusiastic, persistent suffragists were organized in some five hundred towns throughout Minnesota by 1919 - the year the state legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment.Through research in family papers, organizational records, and the vast literature on women's history, Stuhler shows how Minnesota's campaigners for equal voting rights reflect America's second generation of suffragists. Unlike the first generation of leaders - Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others - the women who carried the struggle to its brilliant victory in 1920 are largely forgotten. Gentle Warriors brings them back to life, re-creating their energizing achievements, their bitter disappointments, their conflicts and friendships. On these pages, those committed suffragists who struggled on with such bountiful imagination, humor, dedication, and vision, take their rightful place in history.

Archer B. Gilfillan was an anomaly. An Ivy League scholar with a broad knowledge of classical literature and a talent for writing, he nonetheless chose to herd sheep from 1916 to 1934 in a lonely, isolated part of the West. Out of this strange juxtaposition of expertise and experience, Gilfillan produced the classic narrative of American sheepherding.First published in 1929, Sheep: Life on the South Dakota Range provides a personal, informative, and entertaining account of the western sheepherder. From blizzards to predatory wolves, from grass-crazed sheep in the springtime to penny-pinching bosses, Gilfillan misses nothing. He also volunteers his trenchant opinions on modern women, cowboys, and homesteaders-many of whom were his neighbors.In his introduction, Richard W. Etulain, director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico, describes Gilfillan's life and discusses the appeal of the wide-open West to an urban-industrial nation.

Captures the essential details of Chippewa child life and provides a comprehensive overview of a fascinating culture.

In the first case study of its kind, Tweton explores the New Deal in one Minnesota county: how programs operated, what impact they had on communities and people, and how people responded. The story he tells is based on oral history interviews, township and village records, files of government papers, and county newspapers.

Why did emigrants leave their homeland and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did they maintain their ethnicity? Based on ground-breaking research. Each chapter of They Chose Minnesota describes the unique concerns of individual groups and delves into personal stories. Farmers and factory workers, men, women, and children, families and single people, idealists and pragmatists, people who were devout or irreligious or enthusiastic or fearful, those who cut ties with their homeland or intended to return-all form part of Minnesota's ethnic saga."The work, which covers 60 distinct ethnic groups in 32 chapters, is the most ambitious ethnic research project so far undertaken by any state. If you are a descendant of Icelanders or Lebanese, Greeks or Japanese, you will find interesting material in this book about your forebears and how it was when they settled in Minnesota."-St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press

Tells the traditional stories and describes the lifeways of some of the first people of the Plains: the Pawnee, Sioux, Hidatsa, Mandan, Arikara, and Omaha Indians. Through these stories, readers learn of the essential ties Native peoples have to the land.

The Texas equivalent of the "Mayflower" adventures, the three hundred families who settled Stephen F. Austin's original colony formed the foundation on which a republic and then a state was built. In this revised and expanded edition of the book first published in 1991, many stories of those early Texians are told by their descendants."Austin's Old Three Hundred" features reference sources, portraits, illustrations, glossary terms and anecdotal information. Interesting sidebars are also interspersed throughout. The lists of colonists, along with specific grants, prove indispensable for those researching their ancestors or for historians seeking information about Texas' first Anglo settlers. Each biography in the book was researched and written by a descendant.

An in-depth look at how a union of business owners used financial and political power as well as propaganda and violence in their campaign against organized labor in early 20th century Minnesota.This groundbreaking labor study offers a detailed portrait of the Citizens Alliance (CA), a union of Minneapolis business owners that employed any means necessary to squelch the power of organized labor. The association blacklisted union workers, ran a spy network to ferret out union activity, and, when necessary, raised a private army to crush its opposition with brute force. The influence of the CA also reached across the state to battle socialists, labor unions, the Nonpartisan League, and the Industrial Workers of the World. The book examines the philosophies and tactics of the Citizens Alliance from its inception in 1903 to the passage of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, legislation that effectively inhibited the power of unions.Based on over ten years of meticulous archival research, author William Millikan delves into such subjects as the founding of the William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute; the 1917 Streetcar Strike and the 1934 Teamsters' Strike; and the CA's collaboration with the Commission of Public Safety, Northwest Bancorporation, the courts, and the military. Both a business history and a labor history, A Union Against Unions offers a comprehensive picture of the CA's brutal campaign against organized labor and a fascinating view of Minnesota history during the first half of the twentieth century.

Explore over a century of beautiful southern community celebrations in this cozy alternative history book.The small rural town of Ripley, Tennessee has held a spectacular celebration in honor of Labor Day for more than 100 years. This celebration includes many exciting staples of the southern community including parades and homecomings. Nestled in Lauderdale County, Tennessee, Ripley has been named one of the 25 More Uniquely American Cities and Towns. During these celebrations in Ripley, individuals from diverse communities come together to create a beautiful picture of what the world could look like. Throughout the pages of this book, the residents of Ripley demonstrate their vast love for their neighbors and a generous spirit of harmony when they gather. Written by a Ripley resident, this book immerses the reader in Ripley's distinct and soothing subculture. Like the town itself, the book offers readers a glimpse into a uniquely American experience. This book will appeal to residents of Ripley and any other readers who identify with small towns. History-lovers who like to see the traditions and celebrations of ordinary people may enjoy this sweet venture into one holiday in the south.

"Vielleicht täusche ich mich, doch habe das Gefu¿hl, dass in der Fotografie etwas verku¿mmert, das man den Geisteszustand des betrachteten Bildes nennen kann. Ich las die Worte des verstorbenen bekannten Reporters und Autors Ryszard Kapus¿cin¿ski: "Die Menschen schlagen sich, schreien, kommen um, kämpfen ums U¿berleben, täglich sehen wir uns das an. Unser Vorstellungsvermo¿gen aber ist gelähmt. Um es zu beleben, beno¿tigen wir eines Moments der Stille. Dann gelänge es uns vielleicht aufzufinden, was wir bis dahin nicht wahrzunehmen vermochten ..." Eben diese "innegehaltene" Betrachtung, auf der Mitte des Wegs zu meinem Geist verweilend, ist wohl das Wesen der Philosophie der von Timm Stu¿tz angebotenen Kunst-Fotografie." (Kunstfotograf Kritik Publizist Jerzy Lewczyn¿ski (1924-2014) Gliwice) - "Timm Stu¿tz versteht den Menschen, welchen er auf seinen Arbeiten zeigt, ausgezeichnet. Der Autor begleitet den anderen Menschen durch sein Objektiv. Ko¿rpersprache, Gesten, Mimik verschiedenster Lebenssituationen, die sich ereignen ko¿nnen, beobachtet Timm Stu¿tz ungewo¿hnlich genau. Diese Beobachtung erlaubt dem Betrachter mittels der Fotografie sich in die jeweilige Situation der Personen hineinzuversetzen. Gemeinsam mit ihnen entsteht das Bedu¿rfnis teilzunehmen, auf die Uhr zu schauen wie die zwei Frauen im Park von Venedig dies tun, gemeinsam mit den Mädchen in der Straßenbahn in Rom zu lachen, nachzusehen wer fru¿hmorgens hinter einem Vorhang versteckt eine Zigarette raucht. Auf den Spuren der Worte McCullins "Fotografie hat nichts mit Schauen, sondern mit Gefu¿hl zu tun. Wenn Du nichts fu¿hlst von dem, was Du siehst, dann wird es Dir nicht gelingen, Menschen, die Deine Fotos anschauen, dazu zu bringen irgend etwas zu empfinden." Ich bin u¿berzeugt, dass Timm Stu¿tz die ihn umgebende Welt hervorragend spu¿rt, was dieses humanistische Dokument beweist." (Arkadiusz Lawrywianiec Präses ZPAF Katowice) - "Im Zeitalter der digitalen Fotografie erhalten die einmal von Robert Frank geäußerten Worte eine neue Bedeutung: "Fotografie ist eine zugleich einfache wie auch schwierige Kunst und desto schwieriger je länger und verantwortungsvoller wir sie kultivieren." Timm Stu¿tz beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit der Fotografie und geho¿rt nach meiner Meinung zu den verantwortungsvollen Fotografen. Sein fotografisches Schaffen ist weder inszeniert noch verfremdet und durch und durch ehrlich. Sie ist ehrlich in der Bearbeitung und "minimalistisch" und der Idee des "entscheidenden Moments" des franzo¿sischen Jahrhundert-Fotografen H. C. Bresson eng verbunden. Sie ist scheinbar einfach aber immer mit einer Wertzugabe wodurch die Fotografie die Form eines Essays annimmt. Einfachheit ist entgegen allem Anschein nicht leicht zu erreichen. Das Schaffen Timm Stu¿tz' kommt den Ansichten des amerikanischen Kritikers und Schriftstellers James Agee nahe, der 1945 schrieb: ,Die Aufgabe des Ku¿nstlers ist nicht die Welt, so wie sie sein Auge sieht, in eine Welt der ästhetischen Wirklichkeit zu verändern, sondern das Bemerken einer ästhetischen Wirklichkeit der realen Welt und die Schaffung eines makellosen und getreuen Moments, in dem das kreative Wirken seinen deutlichsten Ausdruck der Kristallisation erreicht.'" (Kunstfotograf Andrzej Graba-Grabowiecki, STF Szczecin)

Auf Ihren Wegen durch Norderstedt können Sie an überraschendvielen Stellen Weltgeschichte, Regionalgeschichte und Lokalgeschichte in meist steinerner Form begegnen.Zahlreiche Denkmale, Gedenksteine und Gedenktafeln erinnern imöffentlichen Raum an wichtige Ereignisse oder Menschen und laden zum Gedenken ein. Diese "stummen Zeugen der Geschichte", wie sie oft genannt werden, sind überhaupt nicht stumm. Sie erzählen von Kriegen und ihren Folgen, von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus, von Trauer und Hoffnungen und im Falle von Norderstedt auch von Menschen und Ereignissen, die die Ursprungsgemeinden geprägt haben oder nach Stadtgründung als erinnerungswürdig befunden wurden. All diese Denkmale, Gedenksteine und Gedenktafeln stellen wir Ihnen in Texten, Zeitdokumenten und Fotografien vor und präsentieren auch (heute teils aus gutem Grund, teils bedauerlicherweise) verschwundene Denkmale. Das abschließende Register mit den Namen der Gefallenen aus zwei Weltkriegen kann für diejenigen interessant sein, die sich mit Familienforschung beschäftigen.

Provides a fascinating and in-depth look into the life, career and legacy of one of the most important New Yorkers of the Gilded Age.

Long Island's longest-tenured winemaker weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production.