Southwest Minnesota: The Land and the People
Edited By Joseph Amato and David Pichaske
Complete with pictures, this book is a collection of essays that focus on southwestern Minnesota and its people. The book offers a contemporary history of businesses, water use, innovative materials, crops, the influence of world-wide markets, and many more often ignored and forgotten pieces of history and their impact on rural life. Essays include:
| "The Ancient People and the Newly Come" | by Meridel Le Sueur |
| "The Countryside as Quilt" | by Joseph Amato |
| "Great Snows" | by Carol Bly |
| "What the Countryman Knows by Heart" | by Barton Sutter |
| "Going Out to Get the Mail" | by Nancy Paddock |
| "The Grass Roots of Great Plains History" | by Jim Muchlinski |
| "On the Coteau des Prairies, 1838" | by Joseph Nicollet |
| "Horizontal Grandeur" | by Bill Holm |
| "Picking Rock" | by Phil Dacey |
| "Bones" | by Paul Gruchow |
| "The First Peoples of Southwestern Minnesota" | by Scott Anfinson |
| "Redwood Falls, 1861" | by Henry Thoreau |
| "Toward the Sunset" | by Ole Rolvaag |
| "Pullman Cars and Their Occupants" | by Baron E. De Mandat-Gracey |
| "Cottonwoods" | by Phebe Hanson |
| "In an Icelandic Graveyard" | by Bill Holm |
| "The Grandfathers" | by David Pichaske |
| "Ethnicity and Settlement in Southwestern Minnesota" | by John Radzilowski |
| "The Land of the Straddle-Bug" | by Hamlin Garland |
| "Reflections in Sleepy Eye" | by Allen Ginsberg |
| "Home" | by Garrison Keillor |
| "How to Take a Walk" | by Leo Dangel |
| "My Father" | by Frederick Manfred |
| "Autumn Waiting" | by Tom Hennen |
| "Learning to Swim" | by Faith Sullivan |
| "What Happened During the Ice Storm" | by Jim Heynen |
| "Ten Ways of Looking at Pheasant Hunting in Southwestern Minnesota" | by Joe Paddock |
| "Rivers of the Coteau des Prairies" | by Thomas Waters |
| "A Story About My Father" | by Robert Bly |
| "Pro Patria" | by Tim O'Brien |
Crossings Press, 2000
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