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MINNESOTA: A STATE GUIDE

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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Agrarian Movement, Farmers' Alliance, 4.73;
Grange, 4.66, 8.76; Granger Law, 4.93, Non-Partisan League, 4.84; Populist party, 4.73
Agriculture, 1.7; Bonanza farming, 4.63, 5.7, 8.16;
co-operatives, 5.27; conservation, 5.22; corn, 5.10; dairying, 5.14; diversified, 5.13; early, 4.20, 4.29, 5.1; farm life, 5.24; flax, 5.11; livestock, 5.13, 8.49; miscellaneous crops, 5.19; poultry, 5.17; railroads, 5.7; small grains, 5.12; wheat, 4.63, 5.6
Airlines, 7.31
Albert Lea, oil co-operative, 8.84
Albinson, Dewey, 12.65
Alexandria, trout fishing, 11.4
Allouez, Father, 3.22
America Letters, 6.11
American Fur Company, 4.18, 13.14
Anoka, plant life, 2.46
Architecture, early building, 12.14;
later building, 12.23; skyscraper, 12.27
Arrowhead region, 8.41, 11.5
Arts, early, 12.1;
growth of, 12.7; literature, 12.39; painting, 12.64; music 12.54; sculpture, 12.67
Askov, Danish folk school, 9.26
Astor, John Jacob, 4.18
Athenaeum society (Minneapolis), 12.10
Avery, Stanley, 12.54

Barnes, Rev. Alonzo, 10.4
Becker, Dr. John, 12.54
"Big Woods," 2.7, 2.45
Biscay, 8.81
Bishop, Harriet, 9.5
Bois Brûlés (half breeds), 3.36
Bonanza farms, 5.7, 8.16
Bonga (or Bonza), George and Pierre, 4.23
Booth, Cameron, 12.65
Bottineau, Pierre, 13.13
Brewer, Nicholas, 12.64
British in Minnesota, 4.12
"Brown's Valley Man," 3.5
Brownsville, 10.7
Buffington, Leroy S., 12.27
Bull, Ole, 12.8; statue (Minneapolis), 12.68
Bunyan, Paul, 8.7; legends, 11.2, 11.6
Burton, S. Chatwood, 12.64

Capitol, first state, 4.40;
architecture, 12.31; D. C. French, 12.71
Carpenter, E. L., 12.57
Carver, Jonathan, 4.15; cave, 2.37, 4.16, 12.39
Cassel, Peter, 6.11
Catlin, John, 4.31
Catlinite, 2.18
Chapel of St. Paul, 4.24, 9.28, 13.11
Chaska, 2.37
Christiansen, Prof. F. Melius, 6.13, 12.55, 12.61
Clarks Grove, 8.81
Conservation, 2.84, 5.20
Conwell, Russell, 10.13
Cooke, Jay, 4.67
Cottonwood, 8.84
Coureurs de bois, 4.5
"Cow war," 4.87
Cretin, Bishop Joseph, 9.30
Cuyuna Range, 4.80, 8.29

De Kruif, Paul, 8.34
Densmore, Frances, 3.55, 12.55
Donnelly, Ignatius, 4.52, 4.73, 10.8, 12.40
Duluth, 4.28; radio, 10.21; shipping tonnage, 7.4
Duluth Herald, 10.15
Du Luth ( du Lhut ), Daniel Greysolon, Sieur, 3.28, 4.6
Dyer, John, 9.33

Eastman, Charles A., 12.45
Eastman, Mrs. Mary, 12.39
Education, 9.4; early, 4.41, 4.60, 9.4;
aid for handicapped, 9.18; evolution controversy, 9.47; finance, 4.70 9.14; land grants, 4.98, 9.9; folk schools, 9.26; Indian education, 9.4, 9.25; junior colleges, 9.17; Lake of the Woods' schools, 9.24; state teachers' colleges, 9.12; state university, 9.10; Religious, 9.28; Baptist, 9.38; Catholic, 9.44; liturgical movement, 9.46; Episcopal, 9.37; Indian Missions, 9.1, 9.28; Methodist, 9.29, 9.36; Norwegian Lutheran, 9.39; Swedish Lutheran, 9.32
Eggleston, Edward, 12.39
Erosion, 2.91

Falls of St. Anthony, 4.8
Faribault, 9.37
Farm tenancy, 5.20
Farmer-Labor party, organized, 4.84
Ferguson, Donald N., 12.54
Firkins Oscar W., 12.42
First Americans, archeology, 3.1; "Brown's Valley Man," 3.5; Indians, 3.17, 3.8
Fish hatcheries, 11.4
Fishing 2.92, 11.4
Fjelde, Jacob, 12.67
Fjelde, Paul, 12.67
Folwell, William Watts, 4.60, 12.7, 12.42
Forest fires, 2.89
Forestry, state, 2.84
Forests, national, Chippewa, 11.2, 11.8, Superior, 11.2, 11.7
Fort Beauharnois, 9.1
Fort Ridgely, 4.56
Fort Ripley, 4.27
Fort Snelling 4.19, 12.16, 13.13, 13.19; first school site, 9.4
Fossils, 2.33
Fraser, James Earle, 12.72
Fremstad, Olive, 12.54
French, Daniel Chester, 12.71
Frontenac, 4.10
Fur trade, 4.11, 7.3;
American Fur Company, 4.18; Negroes, 4.23; XY Company, 4.12

Gag, Wanda, 12.65
Galtier, Father Lucian, 4.24, 9.28, 13.11
Garden City, Oneota fossil layer, 2.37
Garland, Hamlin, 12.41
Giants Range, 2.17
Gilbert, Cass, 12.31; state capitol, 12.1, state university, 12.33
Glenwood, shale beds, 2.38; a capella choir, 12.61
Goodhue James M., 9.2
Goodrich, Earle S., 10.8
Government, Organic Act, creating Minnesota Territory, 4.91
State, constitution, 4.91, bicameral legislature, 4.102, boards and departments 4.100; health, 4.100; labor statistics bureau, 8.63, commission of administration and finance ("Big Three"), 4.97; state offices, 4.92
Legislation, election laws and corrupt practices acts, 4.96, "Five Million Loan Bill," 4.93; land grants, 4.98; suffrage, 4.91; woman's suffrage, 4.94; workmen's compensation act, 8.66
Local, city, 4.106; county, 4.105
Grain elevators, architecture, 12.38
Grand Opera House (Minneapolis), 12.8
Grand Portage, 3.48
Grange (see Agrarian Movement)
Grasshopper plague (see Locust Invasion)
Greenman, Frances 12.65

Haecker, Prof. Theophilus L., 5.15, 8.81
Hastings, Oneota fossil layer, 2.37; Thorne House, 12.22
Hatch's Battalion, 3.47
Hauge, Rev. Lars J., 9.38
Haupers, Clement, 12.65
Haupt, Theodore, 12.65
Hennepin, Father Louis, 4.6
Henry, Alexander, 7.3
Hiawatha, Song of (poem), 3.31, 12.39; statue, 12.68
Hibbing, 97; bus line origin, 7.28
Hill, James J., 6.4; farming 5.14; railroads, 7.20
History
Background, exploration, 4.1; early settlement, 4.19;
French domination, 4.2; Territorial convention, 4.31; Territorial expansion, 4.31; new state, 4.49; Civil War, 4.52; Sioux uprising, 4.53; Homestead act of 1862, 4.61; state immigration board formed, 4.62; Granger Acts, 4.66; rise of farm organization, 4.73; ore resources, 4.72; railroad expansion, 4.74
Modern after 1900, 4.77; Panama Canal opening, 4.81;
political parties, 4.83; World War, 4.82; industrial disputes, 4.85; drouth, 4.86
Minnesota Historical Society, 4.101
Home Rule Organization, 4.107
Hudson's Bay Company, 4.11, 13.14

Ibsen Henrik, statue (St. Paul), 12.68
Immigrant and Racial Groups, 4.43, 4.62, 6.htm, 9.42;
Czechs, 4.72, 6.19; Danes, 6.14; Finns, 4.72, 6.18, 106-107; Germans, 6.16; Irish, 6.3; Negroes, 6.20, 9.29; Norwegians, 6.13; Poles, 6.19; Scandinavians, 6.10; Slavs 4.72; Swedes, 6.11;
Indians, 3, 12.18; Sioux Uprising, 3.47, 4.53, 9.37;
Chippewa, 3.19, 3.48; co-operative marketing, 3.50; craftsmanship, 3.49, halfbreeds, 3.36; education, 4.24, 9.5, 9.25; fishing, 8.54; music, 12.54; pictographs, 12.1; Pillagers, 3.20; pottery, 3.8; territories, 3.41; architecture 12.14, translations, 4.24; Winnebagos, 4.27; mounds, 3.2; Treaties, 3.29, 4.16, 8.25; La Pointe, 4.35; Traverse des Sioux, 4.35
Industrial development, co-operatives, 5.15, 8.64, 8.76;
fishing 8.54; labor, 4.85, 8.76, 8.59; lumbering, 8.7; meat packing, 8.49, milling, 4.20, 4.51, 4.63, 8.15; mining, 3.9, 4.72, 4.80, 8.24; natural resources, 8.1; quarrying 8.37
Iron, ore, conservation, 2.96; Cuyuna, 2.24;
geology, 2.10; Mesabi range 8.27; strikes, 8.68; Vermilion range, 8.28

Jasper Peak, 2.13
Johnson, John S., 11.20
Jordan sandstone, 2.35
Jurka, Antonin, 6.19

Kensington Rune Stone, 4.2
Kettle River, sandstone 8.46
King, William S., 10.5
Knights of Labor, 4.73

Lac qui Parle, 4.27
La Croix Edmund, 8.19
Land speculation, 4.44
La Verendrye, Sieur de, 4.6
Leavenworth, Col. Henry, 4.19
Le Sueur, Pierre Charles, 4.6
Lewis, Sinclair, 12.46, 12.52
Lincoln, Abraham, 4.57
Lind, John, 4.73
Little House, 12.37
Locust invasion, 4.68
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth, 3.31, 11.2, 12.39
Long Prairie, reservation, 4.27; trout fishing, 11.4
Loran, Erle, 12.65
Louisiana Purchase, 4.14
Lumbering, 2.51, 3.40, 4.63 (see Industrial Development, lumbering)
Lumberjacks, 8.7

Macbeth, Florence, 12.54
Mankato, 4.9; quarries, 8.43
Manship, Paul, 12.67, 12.69
Marine-On-St. Croix, 8.9
Martin, Homer Dodge, 12.64
Mattson, Col. Hans, 6.4, 9.34
Mayo Clinic 4.71
McNally, William, 12.45
Mendota, 8.19, 4.35, 13.8, 13.13
Merritt Brothers, 8.27
Mesabi, oyster beds, 2.40
Mille Lacs, 3.28, 4.8
Milles, Carl, 12.36, 12.70
Milling, 8.15
Minneapolis, 4.26, 8.5, 8.15, 8.73, 13.15;
Institute of Arts, 12.66, Society of Fine Arts, 12.10, Minnesota State Society of Arts, 12.10; newspapers, 10.5, 10.15; Symphony Orchestra, 12.55, 12.57 (see also Twin Cities)
Minnesota Historical Society, 4.101
"Minnesota Man," 3.4
Minnesota Posten, 9.34
Missionaries and missions, 3.43, 4.24, 9.1; Ayer, 9.28; Boutwell, 9.28; De Gonner and Guignas, 4.10, 9.1; Stevens, Rev. Jedediah D., 9.4;
Moorhead, 10.21
Morton, quarries, 8.40

National Farmers Bank, 12.34
Natural Setting, 2, boundaries, 2.2; climate, 2.8
New Prague, 12.5
Newspapers (see Press)
New Ulm, quarries, 8.40; Sioux Uprising, 4.56
Negro newspapers, 10.11
Norelius, Erik, 9.8, 9.34, 10.10, 10.13
Northwest Company, 4.12
Norton, Eunice, 12.54

Oberhoffer, Emil, 12.57
Octagon House, 12.22
Olds, Elizabeth, 12.65
Ortonville, quarries, 8.40
Osakis, fishing, 11.4
Owatonna, 12.34; oil co-operative, 8.84
Oxcarts, 4.21

Panic, of 1857, 4.45, 7.11; of 1873, 4.67; of 1893, 4.72
Parrant, Pierre, 13.9
Patrons of Husbandry (see Agrarian Movement, Grange)
Peace Memorial (St. Paul), 12.36
Pelican Rapids, 3.4
Penasse, 9.24
Phelps, Ruth, 12.43
Philippine insurrection, 4.76
Pig's Eye, 13.8
Pike, Lieut. Zebulon, 3.29, 4.15
Pipestone Indians 3.48, 9.25, 12.1; quarries, 2.18, 3.49, 8.48
Pond Brothers, Samuel and Gideon, 3.44,
9.2, 9.5; Sioux language, 4.24, 9.4
Powderly, Terence V., 8.64
Powers, Le Grand, 8.67
Press, 10.1

Radio, 10.17
Radisson, 2.60, 4.6
Rafting, 8.7
Railroads, (see Transportation)
Ramsey, Alexander, 3.35, 4.32
Ravoux, Father Augustine, 9.28
Red Lake Fisheries association, 8.58
Red Lake Indian reservation, 3.48
Red River oxcarts (see Oxcarts)
Red Wing, 9.7, 9.34, 10.6
Renville, Joseph, 3.45, 4.27
Reptiles, 2.81
Richardson, H. H., 12.25
Riedel, Edward 12.24
Riley, Rev. W. B., 9.47
Rivers, 2.2; Red, 2.2;
River Warren 2.2, 2.31; St. Croix, 2.2, 2.32, 11.4; St. Louis, 2.3
Rober, Lewis, 11.17
Rölvaag, O. E., 6.13, 12.46, 12.51
Rural Electrification, 8.86

St. Anthony Falls, 4.8, 10.5
St. Cloud, 10.6; quarries, 8.40
St. John's Abbey, 9.46
St. Lawrence fossil layer, 2.35
St Paul, 4.16; 4.33, 9.5, 11.1, 12.69, 13.9;
city hall, 12.36, 12.70; St. Paul Musical Society, 12.6, newspapers, 10.15 (see also Twin Cities)
St. Peter, 9.8, 10.7
Sanford, Maria L., 12.7
Sauk Center, 12.53
Sauk Rapids, 10.7
Schiller, Frederick, 12.39
Schools, 4.16, 4.51, 9.12 (see Education)
Universities, Hamline, 4.41, 9.7, 9.36; St. John's, 4.41; state university, 4.41, 4.60, 9.10, 12.25, 12.33, 12.68 academic writers, 12.43; agriculture, 5.28; radio, 10.18
Colleges, Gustavus Adolphus, 9.8, 9.34; Macalester, 4.41, 9.6; St. Olaf, 6.13, 10.18, 12.51, 12.61; St. Paul, 9.6;
Other, Baldwin, 9.6; Indian boarding, 9.25; Lindsay 9.20; Mankato Normal, 4.60 Michael Dowling, 9.20; St. Cloud Normal, 4.60; State School for Blind, Deaf and Feeble-Minded, 4.60
Schoolcraft, Henry, 3.31, 12.39
Scott, Dred, 4.20
Shakopee, 10.7
Sibley, Henry H., 3.47, 4.21, 4.31; governor, 4.49, 13.13; house,12.21
Sisters of St. Francis, 4.71
Snakes, 2.82
Snelling, Col. Josiah, 4.19, 13.13
Soil erosion, 4.86, 5.20 (see also Conservation)
South St. Paul, 8.52
Spanish-American War, 4.76
Sports and recreation, 11
Spring Valley, 2.40
State capitol, 4.75
State fair, art galleries, 12.66
State Society of Art, 12.64
Steamboating, traffic, Virginia, 4.20, 7.6
Steele, Franklin, 13.13, 13.19
Stillwater, 1l9, 10.6; fossil layer, 2.35
Sullivan, Louis, 12.34
Sully expedition, 3.47
Superior National Forest, 11.2, 11.7
Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 10.8

Taliaferro, Maj. Lawrence, 3.41, 4.20
Tanner, John, 3.32
Taylors Falls, 2.18
Thorne House, 12.22
Townley, Arthur Charles, 4.84, 10.14
Transportation, 7; railroad, 4.61, 4.73, 4.93, 8.20, 8.31

Treaty of Ghent, 4.18
Turnblad, Swan J., 10.10
Twain, Mark, quotation, 13.10
Twin Cities, 13.1; cultural hub, 12.7; labor, 8.69; milk distribution, 8.81; newspapers, 10.15 (see also Minneapolis, St. Paul)
Tyler, folk school, 9.26

University of Minnesota (see Schools)
Upson, Arthur, 12.43

Veblen, Thorstein, 12.47
Verbrugghen, Henri, 12.57
Virginia, 10.21

Wabasha, 10.6
Walker, fishing, 11.4
Washburn, Cadwallader, 12.64
Water power, 2.94
Wheelock, Joseph, 10.8
Whipple, Bishop Henry Benjamin, 3.46, 4.57, 9.37
White Earth Indian reservation, 3.48
Whitefield, Edwin, 12.9
Whiting, Sam K., 10.8
Wickman, Eric Carl, 7.28,
Willey House, 12.37
William Crooks (locomotive), 7.12
Williamson Dr. Thomas S., 9.28
Winona, 10.6, 12.5, 12.72; geology, 2.35, 99; plant life, 2.47
Winter carnival (St. Paul), 11.1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 12.37

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