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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