1.08.272
Book
1931
Minnesota Stories. Material: paper. Size: 6" x 9". Description: blue cardboard hardcover with gold cover print and graphics: "101 Best Stories of Minnesota, Merle Potter". Contents: 301 numbered pages, several black and white photo prints; book plate inside front cover: "Lottie Knudson" - handwritten inside flyleaf: "David Granahan"; some stories included: Joe Rolette, Lord Gordon Garden, Tin Box Courthouse, Brambel steam engine, locust invasion, petrified man of Bloomer, Panic of 1857, Dan Patch, Hill-Harriman fight, Ames (Boodle mayor), Nelson-Kindred fight, Knott Duluth speech, Provencalle, Goodhue County ghost, Northfield Bank Robbery, Joseph Brown steam wagon, Markoe balloon, First Minnesota at Gettysburg, Minnesota name, Cornstalk War, Carver Sioux Land Grant, Battle of Birch Coulee, Kensington Rune Stone, Editor Swisshelm, Minnesota Blizzard, Eliza Winston (slave woman), Minneapolis Mills, James Dickson (Indian liberator), Fort Snelling (1936), Freeborn County horse race, Rochester tornado, Minnesota (frigate), Mankato-New Ulm imbroglio, Hinckley fire, Le Sueur (copper mine), Snana (Indian heroine), Chisholm fire, Judge Cox impeachment, James Goodhue (pioneer publisher), Blizzard of 1873, St. Peter Company, Flag display.
101 Best Stories of Minnesota
Merle Potter
Harrison & Smith Co., Minneapolis