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• Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, by Minnesota Historical Society (full serial archives)
• Readings in early Minnesota history. (University of Minnesota, 1938), by Theodore Christian Blegen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Guide to the personal papers in the manuscript collections of the Minnesota historical society (The Minnesota Historical Society, 1935), by Minnesota Historical Society, Gertrude W. Ackermann, and Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to the Personal Papers in the Manuscript Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (first in a series of manuscript guides; St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1935), ed. by Grace Lee Nute and Gertrude W. Ackermann (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Biennial report of the Minnesota War Records Commission for the years ... (Minnesota War Records Commission., in the 1910s), by Minnesota War Records Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Duluth and Episcopal Church Missionary District of Duluth (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Minnesota, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Minnesota (partial serial archives)
• Year Book of the Minnesota Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Methodist Episcopal Church, Minnesota Annual Conference (partial serial archives)
• Year book of the Northern Minnesota Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by Methodist Episcopal Church, Northern Minnesota Conference (partial serial archives)

• Inventory to a microfilm edition of the Minnesota State population census schedules (The Division, 1977), by Minnesota Historical Society. Division of Archives and Manuscripts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Minnesota, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Minnesota (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Annual Convention, by Episcopal Church Diocese of Duluth and Episcopal Church Missionary District of Duluth (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Fifty Years in the Northwest, by William H. C. Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier (St. Paul: E. W. Porter, 1900), by Charles E. Flandrau (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Minnesota Pioneer Sketches, by Frank G. O'Brien (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Dahkotah Land and Dahkotah Life, With the History of the Fur Traders of the Extreme Northwest During the French and British Dominions (Philadelphia; Chicago: J.B. Lippincott; S.C. Griggs, 1859), by Edward D. Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of Freeborn County: Including Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, and Outline History of the State of Minnesota, by Rev. Edward D. Neill; also, Sioux Massacre of 1862, and State Education by Charles S. Bryant (Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Co., 1882), contrib. by Edward D. Neill and Charles S. Bryant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West, by E. Sandford Seymour (page images at loc.gov)
• A History of the Swedish-Americans of Minnesota (3 volumes; Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1910), ed. by A. E. Strand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Macalester College contributions (Pioneer Press Pub. Co., 1889), by Macalester College and Literature and Political Science Macalester College. Dept. of History (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota and Tales of the frontier (E.W. Porter, 1900), by Charles E. Flandrau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908. (The Publishing society of Minnesota, 1908), by Lucius F. Hubbard, Frank R. Holmes, R. I. Holcombe, Warren Upham, James H. Baker, and William Pitt Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concise history of the state of Minnesota (S. M. Williams, 1887), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota explorers and pioneers from A.D. 1659 to A.D. 1858 (North Star Pub. Co., 1881), by Edward D. Neill and North Star Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some facts in the history of Minnesota; addressed to Alexander Ramsey, first governor of Minnesota and first president of its Historical society (The Pioneer press company, 1888), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Minnesota (Minnesota historical society, 1921), by William Watts Folwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Indian wars of Minnesota. (Torch Press, 1956), by Louis H. Roddis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building Minnesota (D. C. Heath and company, 1938), by Theodore Christian Blegen (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Star State (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908), by William Watts Folwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The transition of a typical frontier, with illustrations from the life of Henry Hastings Sibley, fur trader, first delegate in Congress from Minnesota Territory and first governor of the state Minnesota ... (George Banta Publishing Company, 1922), by Wilson Porter Shortridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancestry, life, and times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley ... (Pioneer press publishing co., 1889), by Nathaniel West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floral home, or, First years of Minnesota : early sketches, later settlements, and further developments / c by Harriet E. Bishop. (Sheldon, Blakeman and company, 1857), by Harriet E. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• With various voices, recordings of North Star life (Itasca Press, 1949), by Theodore Christian Blegen and Philip D. Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floral home, or, First years of Minnesota : early sketches, later settlements, and further developments (Sheldon, Blakeman and company, 1857), by Harriet E. Bishop and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volume VIII. (The Society, 1898), by Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota Historical Society collections (Minnesota Historical Society, 1901), by Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota and its people. (S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1924), by J. A. A. Burnquist and S.J. Clarke Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota; a romantic story for young people (J. H. Sears & company, inc., 1928), by J. Walker McSpadden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota : the land of sky-tinted waters : a history of the state and its people (American Historical Society, 1935), by Theodore Christianson and American Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Minnesota pioneer sketches, from the personal recollections and observations of a pioneer resident (H.H.S. Rowell, 1904), by Frank G. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life (Minneapolis Journal, 1901), by William Stoddard, Hugh J. McGrath, Clement A. Lounsberry, and Cornelius William Gillam Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Innesota forest fires. (N. E. Wilkinson, 1895), by William Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota : from the earliest French explorations to the present time. (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1858), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal recollections of Minnesota and its people : and early history of Minneapolis (Tribune Job Ptg. Co., 1890), by John H. Stevens and Marshall Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered before the Minnesota Historical Society at its sixth anniversary, February 1st, 1856. (Minnesota Historical Society, 1856), by Henry Hastings Sibley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Policy speech on Minnesota history and heritage (State of Minnesota, Office of the Governor, 1977), by Minnesota. Governor (1976-1979 : Perpich) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Floral home (Sheldon, Blakeman and company, 1857), by Harriet E. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota. ([s.n.], 1878), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A soldier's reminiscences in peace and war. (Press of J.B. Lippincott company, 1886), by Richard W. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old rail fence corners : the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history : authentic incidents (F.H. McCulloch Print. Co., 1914), by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris and Daughters of the American Revolution. Minnesota Society. Book Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and civil government of Minnesota (Werner School Book Co., 1897), by Sanford Niles and B. A. Hinsdale (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Goodhue county, including a sketch of the territory and state of Minnesota; together with an account of the early French discoveries, Indian massacres, the part borne by Minnesota's patriots in the war of the great rebellion, and a full and complete history of the county from the time of its occupancy by Swiss missionaries in 1838. Pioneer incidents, biographical sketches of early and prominent settlers and representative men, and of its cities, towns, churches, schools, secret societies, etc. (Wood, Alley, & Co., 1878), by Alley & Co Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Ramsey County and the city of St. Paul, including the Explorers and pioneers of Minnesota (North Star Pub. Co., 1881), by George E. Warner, J. Fletcher Williams, Edward D. Neill, and C. M. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota as it is in 1870 : its general resources and attractions for immigrants, invalids, tourists, capitalists, and business men ; with special descriptions of all its counties and towns ... and inducements to those in quest of homes, health, or pleasure (McClung, 1870), by J. W. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years in the Northwest : with an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents, and notes (Pioneer Press Co., 1888), by William H. C. Folsom and E. E. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book of Minneapolis : prepared for the thirty-second annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Minneapolis, Minn., August 15-22, 1883. (s.n., 1883), by American Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• God's doing and man's doing for Minisota : a thanksgiving discourse preached in Northfield, Min. (Lakeside Publishing and Printing Co., 1871), by Myron A. Munson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some facts in the history of Minnesota; addressed to Alexander Ramsey, first governor of Minnesota and first president of its Historical society (the Pioneer press company, 1888), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota (Alden, Ogle & company, 1888), by Alden publishing company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Minnesota (Hack & Wegner printing co.], 1916), by Marion Grace Emery and Rhoda Janet Emery (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Freeborn County. (Minnesota Historical Co., 1882), by Charles S. Bryant, Edward D. Neill, and Minnesota Historical Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Minnesota (American Book Co., 1916), by E. Dudley Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Steele and Waseca counties, Minnesota : an album of history and biography, embracing sketches of the villages, cities, and townships : educational, civil, military, and political history : portraits of prominent citizens, and biographies of old settlers and representative men. (Union Pub. Co., 1887), by Union Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of biography of Minnesota. History of Minnesota (The Century pub. and engraving co., 1900), by Charles Eugene Flandrau and Century publishing and engraving co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dahkotah land and Dahkotah life (J. B. Lippincott & co.;, 1859), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of Minnesota (Educational Pub. Co., 1903), by George Fleming Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Minnesota (Minnesota historical society, 1921), by William Watts Folwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the Red River Valley, past and present; including an account of the counties, cities, towns and villages of the valley from the time of their first settlement and formation (Herald printing company ;, 1909), by C.F. Cooper & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• H. P. Hall's Observations : being more or less a history of political contests in Minnesota from 1849-1904. (Hall, 1904), by H. P. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Blue Earth County and biographies of its leading citizens (Middle West Pub. Co., 1901), by Thomas Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota (Brewer and Tileston, 1868), by Loomis J. Campbell and Charles A. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Encyclopedia of biography of Minnesota : illustrated with steel plate and copper plate engravings. (Higginson Book Co., in the 1990s), by Charles E. Flandrau and Century Publishing and Engraving Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Speech of Hon. H.H. Sibley, of Minn. : before the Committee on Elections of the House of Representatives, Dec. 22, 1848. (1902), by Henry Hastings Sibley and Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage in a six-oared skiff to the Falls of Saint Anthony in 1817 /by Stephen H. Long (Henry B. Ashmead, book and job printer, 1860), by Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Mower County, Minnesota : illustrated (H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1911), by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendium of history and biography of central and northern Minnesota, containing a history of the state of Minnesota ... also ... biographical sketches of hundreds of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of central and northern Minnesota ... (G.A. Ogle & co., 1904), by George A. Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota : from the earliest French explorations to the present time (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• H.P. Hall's observations : being more or less a history of political contests in Minnesota, from 1849-1904.-- ([s.n.], 1905), by H. P. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captured by the Indians : reminiscences of pioneer life in Minnesota. (The Newsprint, 1912), by Minnie Buce Carrigan (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Ramsey County, Minnesota (Higginson Book Co., 1990), by George E. Warner, J. Fletcher Williams, Edward D. Neill, and C. M. Foote (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Minnesota explorers and pioneers from A. D. 1659 to A. D. 1858 (North star publishing company, 1881), by Edward D. Neill and Minneapolis North star publishing company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota: from the earliest French explorations to the present times (Minnesota historical company, 1882), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who's who in Minnesota (Hugh L. White, 1958), by Bernice White (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketches of the West (The Riverside Press, Minnesota State Training School, 1896), by M. C. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal recollections of Minnesota and its people and early history of Minneapolis ([s.n.], 1890), by John H. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota from the earliest French explorations to the present time (Minnesota Historical Co., 1883), by Edward Duffield Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered before the Ramsey County Pioneer Association, May 11th, 1886 (s.n.], 1886), by Charles E. Flandrau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians (R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1891), by Fanny Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the upper Mississippi Valley... (Minnesota Historical, 1881), by Minnesota Historical Company, Charles S. Bryant, J. Fletcher Williams, Edward D. Neill, and H. N. Winchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old rail fence corners : the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history : authentic incidents (F.H. McCulloch Print. Co., 1915), by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris and Daughters of the American Revolution. Minnesota Society. Book Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Houston county (Minnesota Historical Company, 1882), by Charles S. Bryant and Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transactions of the Department of American History of the Minnesota Historical Society. (Johnson, Smith & Harrison, 1879), by Minnesota Historical Society. Department of American History (page images at HathiTrust)
• The transition of a typical frontier, with illustrations from the life of Henry Hastings Sibley. (G. Banta Publishing Co.], 1919), by Wilson Porter Shortridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Minnesota: from the earliest French explorations to the present time (Minnesota Historical Society, 1883), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota as it is in 1870 : its general resources and attractions : with special descriptions of all its counties and towns ... (J.W. McClung, 1870), by J. W. McClung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences, historical and personal : annual address, Feb. 1st, 1856 (1872), by Henry Hastings Sibley and Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Fillmore County, including Explorers and pioneers of Minnesota. (Minnesota historical company, 1882), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered before the Ramsey County Pioneer Association, May 11th, 1886. The Twenty-eighth anniversary of the admission of the state of Minnesota into the Union. (H.M. Smyth Printing Co., 1886), by Charles E. Flandrau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Mower county, Minnesota (H. C. Cooper Jr., 1911), by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendium of history and biography of northern Minnesota, containing a history of the state of Minnesota : also biographical sketches of hundreds of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of northern Minnesota. (G. A. Ogle, 1902), by Geo. A. Ogle & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Visitin' 'round" in Minnesota : a collection of stories about men and places of major and minor importance in the wonder state of Minnesota. ([publisher not identified], 1916), by Carly B. Storrs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires, reminiscences et conferences de monseigneur A. Ravous. (Ledoux et Le Vasseur, 1892), by A. Ravoux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated album of biography of Southwestern Minnesota : containing biographical sketches of hundreds of prominent old settlers...:History of Minnesota, embracing an account of early exploration...and a concise history of the Indian outbreak of 1862 : Presidents of the United States, embracing biographical sketches and a full-page portrait of each. (Occidental Publishing Co., 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota, its story and biography (Lewis Pub. Co., 1915), by Henry A. Castle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical album of Minnesota. (Historical Publications, 1957) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Publications ... ([Saint Paul, 1923), by Minnesota. War Records Commission, ed. by Franklin F. Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures in Minnesota history. ([etc] E. M. Hale & company, 1931), by Robert J. Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Transitions of a typical frontier, illustrations from the life of Henry Hastings Sibley, fur trader, first delegate in Congress from Minnesota territory and first governor of the state of Minnesota ... (n.p., 1919), by Wilson Porter Shortridge and Henry Hastings Sibley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclopedia of biography of Minnesota. : History of Minnesota (The Century Pub. and Engraving Co., 1900), by Charles E. Flandrau and Century Publishing and Engraving Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wisconsin and Minnesota (Nelson Doubleday, 1961), by John C. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated history of Minnesota, a hand-book for citizens and general readers. (D.D. Merrill, 1887), by T. H. Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867, by A. J. Hill, Charles Edwin Mayo, Gideon H. Pond, and Henry M. Rice (Gutenberg ebook)
• Minnesota, the North Star State, by William Watts Folwell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fifty Years In The Northwest: With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes, by William H. C. Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)

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