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Alone at the Top: Climbing Denali in the Dead of Winter
The dramatic story of one man's ascent of North America's highest peak under the harshest conditions-and the climb that nearly killed him.
Norwegian American Women
The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O. E. Rlvaags …
Euphoric Recall: A Half Century as a Music Fan, Producer, Dj, Record Executive, and Tastemaker
Record executive, producer, band manager, club DJ, booking advisor, record store manager--few people had as deep an impact on the Twin Cities alternative and indie rock scene as …
Calling This Place Home
Swedish domestic worker Emina Johnson witnessed the great Peshtigo fire in 1871; Cherokee nurse Isabella Wolfe served the Lac du Flambeau reservation for decades; the authors own …
Prince: Before the Rain
Photographer Allen Beaulieu worked with Prince from the late 1970s into the early '80s, capturing the musician's progression from rising star to his ultimate purple superstardom. …
Norwegians on the Prairie
Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this …
When I Was a Child
With deadpan humor and startling detail, the author of the Emigrants series brings to life a childhood much like his own.
Girl in Building C
In October 1943, sixteen-year-old Marilyn Barnes was told that her recent bout of pneumonia was in fact tuberculosis. She entered Ah-gwah-ching State Sanatorium at Walker, …
The Thunder Before the Storm: The Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt
Legendary activist and AIM co-founder Clyde Bellecourt tells "the damn truth" about the American Indian Movement as he lived it. The American Indian Movement burst onto the scene …
Black White Blue
On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St. Paul patrolman James Sackett was killed by a snipers bullet fired from a high-powered rifle.The …
Grass of the Earth
This is an engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world traveler Aagot Raaen …
Swedes in the Twin Cities: Immingrant Life and Minnesota's Urban Frontier
A detailed portrait of Swedish immigrant life and culture in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, told in 22 essays by leading scholars from the U.S. and Sweden.