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MINNESOTA: A STATE GUIDE
THE MINNESOTA STATE RELIEF AGENCY
STATE CAPITOL HERMAN J. AUFDERHEIDEThrough funds allocated by the Executive Council, State of Minnesota, to the State Relief Agency, the publication of this volume, the first major work of the Federal Writers' Project of Minnesota, has been made possible. In Minnesota: A State Guide there is presented for the first time a full-length portrait of our State. From countless persons and sources the details of our rich heritage have been compiled for residents who wish to know their own community more intimately, and for the visitor who seeks the colorful history that lies behind these prairie cities and villages, these forests and "ten thousand lakes." Here is a book that takes us from the long-forgotten English fur traders, French coureurs de bois, and warring Indians to a highly complex present in which great industries and cooperatives have crowded out the last traces of the frontier. The results of these dramatic changes have been recorded on the physical horizons of the State. How best to see them by canoe, by automobile, and on foot, as well as how best to understand their significance, has been the purpose in the compilation of this book.
THE MINNESOTA STATE RELIEF AGENCY
St. Paul, Minnesota
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