A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped the North Star State, It Happened in Minnesota describes everything from harrowing shootouts with Sioux Indians to the mass execution of thirty-eight men, a bank robbery by Jesse James to the opening of the Mall of America. In an easy-to-read style that is entertaining as well as informative, It Happened in Minnesota will interest people of all ages.

A book of short essays about the small moments of life in Minnesota. Most of them aired as commentaries on Minnesota Public Radio's "Morning Edition."

"Discover some of the most captivating mysteries in Minnesota history, from a sea lion on the lam to a clairvoyant in the courtroom to the tale of a Titanic survivor"-- "A history of unexplained mysteries in Minnesota that date back to 1899"--

Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.

" Duluth may be the city of "untold delights" as lampooned in a Kentucky congressman's speech in 1871. Or it may be portrayed by a joke in Woody Allen's film Manhattan. Or then again, it may be the "Zenith City of the unsalted seas" celebrated by Dr. Thomas Preston Foster, founder of the city's first newspaper. But whatever else it may be, this city of granite hills, foghorns, and gritty history, the last stop on the shipping lanes of the Great Lakes,...

Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classrooms labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who...

A memoir of Nicole Lea Helget's childhood on a family farm in Minnesota. Helget layers vignettes to create a lyrical story of growing up on a Minnesota farm in the 1980s, where her father suffers from alcoholism and her mother verges on insanity. The eldest of six daughters, Helget presents unforgettable, sometimes hilarious images that spill from a fierce and wondrous childhood into the pages of The Summer of Ordinary Ways.

Explores the lives of the residents of Isle Royale, Michigan, before the National Parks Service took it over, and describes the evolution from quiet working fishing village to a national park. Examines the complicated relationship between the people who live on the island and the National Parks Service, and discusses the challenge of trying to balance conservation and ecology along with the preservation of human history and culture. Includes black-and-white...

The American Revolution was not inevitable, nor was it a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against one another, as loyalists and colonial rebels faced off for their lives and futures. Through the remarkable lives of the first Americans, this book reveals the contentious arguments that turned friends into foes and the land into a war zone. From the riots over a child's murder that led to the Boston Massacre, to the Continental Army's first victory...

"Imagine a story in which a young man grows up so close to a major-league ballpark that he can see the stadium lights from his front yard. He pretends to be the team's star during neighborhood ball games and fantasizes about one day playing for his hometown team. Stop imagining. Kent Hrbek made those childhood dreams come true. In this newly revised edition of Tales From the Minnesota Twins Dugout, the Twins superstar himself relives his journey from...