Research Catalog

Title

• Making Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858 / Anne R. Kaplan and Marilyn Ziebarth, editors.

Publication

St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Kaplan, Anne R., 1951-
• Ziebarth, Marilyn

Description

108 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 28 cm.

Summary

"In this lively collection of essays, historians reassess the events and meaning of Minnesota Territory 150 years after its creation. They describe how its birth in 1849 during the growing national conflict over slavery forever changed the lives of Minnesota's native and mixed-blood residents. Reinterpreting the rush to statehood in 1858, these writers offer fresh insights into the roles played by wildly optimistic territorial promoters and the no-holds-barred newspapers of the time"--Back cover.

Subject

• Minnesota Territory > History
• To 1858

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[pt. 1]. Articles: Territorial imperative: how Minnesota became the 32nd state / Rhoda R. Gilman -- Power of whiteness, or the life and times of Joseph Rolette Jr. / Bruce M. White -- Eden of the West / William E. Lass -- "Good times, eh?": Minnesota's territorial newspapers / Jane Lamm Carroll -- Every object tells a story / Marcia G. Anderson with Collections and Sites Staff -- Territorial views: remnants of the built environment / Scott Anfinson -- Visiting Minnesota territorial sites / John Crippen and Katherine Piva -- [pt. 2]. Day in the life, sketches of territorial residents: Ojibwe / Anton Treuer and David Treuer -- Gens Libres / Carolyn Gilman -- Adele Guerin / Sarah P. Rubenstein -- Maza Okiye Win / Angela Cavender Wilson -- Cecelia O'Brein / Brian Horrigan -- Helen Nelson / Helen McCann White -- Henry McKenty / Virginia B. Kunz -- Emily Goodridge Grey / Mary D. Cannon and Patricia C. Harpole -- [pt. 3]. Maps: Minnesota Territory -- Indian land cessions and revservations -- Territorial settlements -- State boundaries proposed in 1857 -- Military and preterritorial roads.

ISBN

0873513738 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98051071^

OCLC

40395902

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library