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Ramsey County History – Winter 2007: Book Reviews
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Review Donald L. Empson, The Street Where You Live: A Guide to the Place Names of St. Paul (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Mark Diedrich, Little Crow and the Dakota War (The Long Historical Cover-ups Exposed) (Rochester, Minn.: Coyote Books, 2006). PDF of Book Reviews…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2007: RCHS Donors
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of RCHS Donors…
Ramsey County History – Winter 2007: Letters to the Editor
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Ramsey County History – Fall 2006: “A Little Known Railway That Couldn’t: The St. Paul Southern”
John W. DiersA Little Known Railway That Couldn’t: The St. Paul Southern Author: John W. Diers The St. Paul Southern Electric Railway, an obscure “electric interurban,” was built to connect the Twin Cities with several southern Minnesota cities. This form of mass transit was developed in other parts of the United…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2006: “The 1894 Pullman Strike in St. Paul and the Death of Switchman Charles Luth”
Gregory T. PoferlThe 1894 Pullman Strike in St. Paul and the Death of Switchman Charles Luth Author: Gregory T. Poferl The 1894 Pullman Strike had a major impact on the country and on St. Paul, a union and railroad town. Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the American Railway Union (ARU),…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2006: “Memories of Frogtown in the 1930s”
James R. BrownMemories of Frogtown in the 1930s Author: James R. Brown Poet and playwright James Brown relates vignettes of the life of his family in St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood during the 1930s. It was a community that was a mixture of public schools, churches, bars, and gambling houses, with a…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2006: Book Review
Ramsey County Historical SocietyBook Review Robert F. Klein, ed. and translator, Foundations: The Letters of Mathias Loras, D.D., Bishop of Dubuque (Dubuque, Ia.: Loras College Press, 2004). PDF of Book Review…
Ramsey County History – Fall 2006: Letters to the Editor
Ramsey County Historical SocietyPDF of Letters to the Editor…
Ramsey County History – Summer 2006: “‘He Was Mechanic Arts’ Mechanic Arts High School: The Dietrich Lange Years, 1916–1939”
John W. Larson“He Was Mechanic Arts” Mechanic Arts High School: The Dietrich Lange Years, 1916–1939 Author: John W. Larson Although this article features Dietrich Lange (1863–1940)—educator, naturalist, and writer—it gives biographical information on several other teachers as well as several Mechanic Arts High School students who became prominent. Roy Wilkins, for…