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Ramsey County History – Spring 2002: “Doing History in Ramsey County and St. Paul: A Review Essay”
John M. LindleyDoing History in Ramsey County and St. Paul: A Review Essay Author: John M. Lindley Like the late nineteenth century spate of local history books about St. Paul, the author comments on a similar recent flourishing of St. Paul history and gives several short summaries of the works. Among…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1998: “Henry Bosse and Samuel Clemens as Mark Twain—Parallel Lives on the Mighty Mississippi”
Michael ConnorHenry Bosse and Samuel Clemens as Mark Twain—Parallel Lives on the Mighty Mississippi Author: Michael Connor The author discovered one of the two sets of Henry Bosse cyanotype images of the Upper Mississippi made between 1883 and 1891. This appreciation of Bosse’s work draws parallels between it and the work…
Ramsey County History – Spring 1993: “Romance, Melodrama, Murder, Mayhem—The Novelist in Not-So-Fictional St. Paul”
Frances SontagRomance, Melodrama, Murder, Mayhem—The Novelist in Not-So-Fictional St. Paul Author: Frances Sontag As a setting for fiction, St. Paul still trails London, New York, Paris, and perhaps a few other cities. Novels set here include Maud Hart Lovelace’s Early Candlelight; Colonel C. Hankins’s Dakota Land, or The Beauty of St. Paul; and Grace…
Ramsey County History – Fall 1990: “West against East in the Land of Oz”
Daniel John Hoisington“West against East in the Land of Oz” Author: Daniel John Hoisington The author looks at The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a metaphor for the national East vs. West political struggle: gold vs silver, McKinley vs. Bryan. “To Baum, the treacherous gold standard could be remedied only by silver—the heart…