North Star State

Two hundred years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesotas unique pastfrom the Civil War to the World Wars, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of St. Pauls black sleeping-car porters, from lumber workers and truckers strikes to the womens suffrage movement.In addition to investigative articles by the states top historians, editor Anne Aby has assembled captivating first-person accounts from key moments in Minnesota history, including George Nelsons reminiscences of his years in the early nineteenth-century fur trade; the diary of Emily Goodridge Grey, an early African American settler; and Jasper N. Searless letters home from the Battle of First Bull Run.