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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