Minnesota Books

This is one of the best of the American Chillers series. How would you like to be chased around by an evil mannequin? Sound scary? I recommend reading this book if you'd like a good scare while your shopping at your favorite mall!

This book series just keeps getting better. Volume 4 is the biggest collection of Minnesota Memories stories so far, with 50 true tales by 39 writers from all over the state. A mom takes her teenage son on a winter adventure to learn dog sledding in the frozen Boundary Waters area, a conductor tries to save a train stuck in a cocoon of snow, an outdoor college performance of "The Music Man" takes on a plague of fish flies and gale force winds, a daughter helps her father plant his last garden, and a small town librarian tells about the cowpie plaster that saved her brother's infected foot many years ago. These books are like a pot luck supper. You never know what's going to be there, but it's always good because everybody brings what they do best for all to enjoy. I love these Minnesota Memories books!

My grandchilldren love this book, so do I it reminds me of growing up in minnesota.Great colorful deatailed pictures. I cant wait for more books from this same author. A+++++++ all the way.

I bought this as a birthday gift for my stepmom after seeing it in a literary catalog, Amazon had it cheaper of course. She is from South Dakota and I had an idea she might like the book, but she LOVED it. She said she clocked in 20 minutes late from her lunch break on the day I gave it to her, because she couldn't put it down. I later learned that she lived in the country and had lots of homes, wells, etc. that were WPA projects. A home run gift on this one, too bad they are not all this easy.

This guide contains photos and descriptions of over 200 routes at the most popular climbing areas in the state:
Blue Mounds
Red Wing
Taylor's Falls
Palisade Head
Shovel Point

Up-to-date access information and ratings will be useful to all climbers. New climbers will benefit from the discussions of safety, style, and local ethics.
--- from book's back cover

This book describes 56 different geological sites, scattered all over Minnesota, where you can scramble around, looking at geological features. It uses USGS maps and black and white photos to show you exactly where to go. Plus, there are line drawings, tables and interesting, accurate verbal infomation about the geology of each of these sites.

If you plan to visit Minnesota or live there, and you like the outdoors, it's well worth owning this book, as well as Guide to the Superior Trail, Hiking Minnesota, and Isle Royale National Park: Foot Trails and Water Routes.

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IT is a great book on the history an accomplishments of the minnesota vikings. it talks about their all-stars in the hall of fame. it is a great "biography " of the vikings.

Once having lived close to the Mason-Dixon Line whose markers (some of them) I've traced and visited, I find surveying and marking boundaries, whether it's surveying a property line prior to erecting a fence to international boundary disputes such as the one waged between Canada and the US (and discussed brilliantly in this study) to be fascinating subjects. It took many years and a number of major conferences and treaties before the line separating Canada and the US was established. While concentrating particularly, though not exclusively, on the boundary line along Minnesota's border, William Lass has written a fascinating history of America's northern boundary.

Lass begins with the agreement made in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which brought the American Revolution to its conclusion. Additional treaties were signed all the way up to 1846, each one amending previous agreements. The most interesting account might be the chapter on the Lake of the Woods and the formation the Angle Inlet as American property, which came about through a lack of information regarding the head of the Mississippi River at the time. The western boundary of the US prior to the Louisiana Purchase was assumed to be the Mississippi River, which was thought to extend up to Lake of the Woods. Thus the most NW point of the lake was marked as the corner of US territory. But when it was learned that the river began much farther south, the 49th parallel became the agreed upon boundary line and a line was simply drawn south from the NW point to the line. Thus the town of Angle Inlet is only one of two communities in the contiguous United States (Point Roberts, WA is the other) that in order to reach by land one must travel through a foreign country. Another most intriguing chapter is the one regarding the final remonumenting of the line during the early 1900s. Lass's history is scholarly and thorough, but not dull. Numerous maps and photos grace the text. Anyone interested in the history of the US's northern boundary in general, or Minnesota's in particular, will find much to savor in this oversized, double-columned book. Highly recommended.

My girls are 7 1/2 and 4 and they have enjoyed working through this book. The coloring pages are simple enough for my younger one and my older daughter liked the puzzles and word finds. I look forward to taking a trip to the north shore and letting them see all the things that they learned about. It was a very inexpensive way to learn about a different part of the country. I would be interested to see if this author comes out with activity books on different states and regions.