Reapers of the Dust

Lois Phillips Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• First published in 1965, her childhood recollections of living in North Dakota are what Lois Phillips Hudson used to spin these unusual, moving storie... Lees meer

James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest

Albro Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• James J. Hill (1838-1916), the Empire Builder, created a vast railroad network across the northwestern United States. In this splendid biography, Mart... Lees meer

Chippewa Child Life and Its Cultural Background

M Inez Hilger

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• In the 1930s, anthropologist Hilger traveled to nine reservations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to record traditional Chippewa methods of rais... Lees meer

Goodbird the Indian

Edward Goodbird

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• This vivid memoir for young readers, first published in 1914, offers a unique look at the Hidatsa people's early reservation years. In simple and appe... Lees meer

Kinsmen of Another Kind

Gary C Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• In August 1862 the Dakota or Eastern Sioux, frustrated at being defrauded by the United States government and at losing their land and livelihood, res... Lees meer

Grass of the Earth

Aagot Raaen

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• An engaging, richly detailed biography of a family of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in eastern North Dakota in the late 1800s. Educator and world t... Lees meer

The Boat of Longing

O E Rolvaag

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• A compelling novel of immigrant life, set in Minneapolis in the early 1900s, by the acclaimed author of Giants in the Earth. Lees meer

Bohemian Flats

Federal Writers Project

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• A charming history of a small, isolated community that once lay on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Lees meer

The Checkered Years

Mary Dodge Woodward

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• Mary Dodge Woodward, a fifty-six-year-old widow, moved from Wisconsin with her two grown sons and a daughter to a 1,500-acre bonanza wheat farm in Dak... Lees meer

Kitchi-Gami

Johann Georg Kohl

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• Covers the Ojibwa fur trade, canoe building, quillwork, native foods, hunting, fishing, and more. Lees meer

A Stretch on the River

Richard P Bissell

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• In this largely autobiographical story, the lively and nonstop dialogue portrays the excitement, humor, and independence of a hard-working steamboat c... Lees meer

Growing Pains

Wanda Gag

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• Wanda Gág rose from poverty in small-town Minnesota to international fame in the 1920s as the author of the children's classic, Millions of Cats. Her ... Lees meer

Early Candlelight

Maud Hart Lovelace

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• This historical novel set at Old Fort Snelling in the 1830s is a rich and romantic re-creation of the early settlement period in Minnesota's history. ... Lees meer

Chippewa Families

M Inez Hilger

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• During the summer and fall of 1938 Mary Inez Hilger, a sister of the Order of St. Benedict, lived on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwester... Lees meer

Political Career of Floyd B. Olson

George H Mayer

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• An extraordinary political leader who forged Minnesota's successful Farmer-Labor coalition during the 1920s and 1930s, Governor Olson was a powerful, ... Lees meer

The Story of Cole Younger

Cole Younger

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• Missouri guerrilla, Confederate officer, bank robber, notorious outlaw, Wild West showman--Cole Younger's life was the stuff of myth and legend. In Th... Lees meer

Chippewa Customs

Frances Densmore

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, ... Lees meer

Crusaders

Meridel Le Sueur

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• In the early years of the twentieth century, as the spirit of Progressivism swept the country, thousands of Americans turned their energies to creatin... Lees meer

Strange Empire

Joseph Kinsey Howard

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• Descendants of fur traders and Indians, the Métis mounted insurrections against the Canadian government in 1869-70 and 1885 led by the messianic Louis... Lees meer

The Bones of Plenty

Lois Phillips Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• A powerful and absorbing novel about the struggles of a proud North Dakota wheat-farming family during the Great Depression. Lees meer

A Dakota-English Dictionary

Stephen R Riggs

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• This Dakota-English dictionary was sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society when it was first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. T... Lees meer

Land of the Burnt Thigh

Edith Eudora Kohl

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life. "Interesting in its spirit and ... Lees meer

To Be an Indian

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• A remarkable collection of transcribed oral histories of members of Dakota, Lakota, Winnebago, and other communities. Lees meer

A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language

Frederic Baraga

• Paperback | Engels | Borealis Books
• Compiled nearly 150 years ago, this dictionary remains the most comprehensive and accurate lexicon available of the Ojibway language. Lees meer