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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…