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Books about Minnesota:

• Minnesota and its Resources, To which Are Appended Camp-Fire Sketches, by J. Wesley Bond (page images at MOA)
• Minnesota As It Is in 1870, by John W. McClung (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-7, by Nathan H. Parker (page images at MOA)

• The Aborigines of Minnesota: A Report Based on the Collections of Jacob V. Brower, and on the Field Surveys and Notes of Alfred J. Hill and Theodore H. Lewis (St. Paul, MN: The Pioneer Co., 1911), by Minnesota Historical Society, ed. by N. H. Winchell, contrib. by J. V. Brower, A. J. Hill, and Theodore Hayes Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of Minnesotans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the State of Minnesota (Chicago, A. N. Marquis and Co., 1907), ed. by Albert Nelson Marquis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive Men of Minnesota, ed. by Marion D. Shutter (page images at loc.gov)
• Who's Who Among Minnesota Women: A History of Woman's Work in Minnesota From Pioneer Days to Date, Told in Biographies, Memorials and Records of Organizations (1924), ed. by Mary Dillon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty Years in the Northwest, by William H. C. Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota, by Minnie Buce Carrigan (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Old Rail Fence Corners: The A.B.C.'s of Minnesota History (second edition, 1914), ed. by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov

• Five Years in Minnesota, by J. Maurice Farrar (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Memories of the Lonesome Trail "Soo" Line, by W. R. Callaway (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Minnesota and Dacotah: In Letters Descriptive of a Tour Through the North-West, in the Autumn of 1856, by C. C. Andrews
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text
• Minnesota: Its Advantages to Settlers (1868), by Girart Hewitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Minnesota: Its Advantages to Settlers (1869 edition), by Girart Hewitt (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Minnesota: Its Character and Climate, by Ledyard Bill (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Seat of Empire, by Charles Carleton Coffin (page images at MOA)
• Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West, by E. Sandford Seymour (page images at loc.gov)
• Fifty Years in the Northwest, by William H. C. Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Floral Home: or, First Years of Minnesota (New York: Sheldon, Blakeman and Co., 1857), by Harriet E. Bishop
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at MOA
• Minnesota, The Empire State of the New North-West, The Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent (1878), by Minnesota State Board of Immigration (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods (2 volumes; Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1824), by William Hypolitus Keating, contrib. by Stephen H. Long, Thomas Say, and James Edward Colhoun
  • Volume I: multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Summer Rambles in the West (New York: J. C. Riker, 1853), by E. F. Ellet (page images at MOA)
• Wool-Gathering (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867), by Gail Hamilton
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at loc.gov)
• With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in 1851, by Frank Blackwell Mayer, ed. by Bertha L. Heilbron (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Minnesota, The Empire State of the New North-West, The Commercial, Manufacturing and Geographical Centre of the American Continent (1878), by Minnesota State Board of Immigration (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Runtime (c2023), by Barbara Fister (HTML at pressbooks.pub)
• Allisto: A Romance (published under "John Emersie" pseudonym; New York: J. D. Williams, c1884), by Mrs. Ansel Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1915), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Norman Rockwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• White and Red: A Narrative of Life Among the Northwest Indians (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1869), by Helen Campbell, illust. by A. P. Close (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Red Feather: A Tale of the American Frontier, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Sinclair Lewis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Minnesota Guide (St. Paul, MN: E. H. Burritt and Co., 1869), by J. Fletcher Williams (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• A Summer Holiday: A Brief Description of Some of the Most Popular Summer Resorts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, and the Routes By Which They Can be Reached, by Chicago and North Western Railway Company (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• 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)

• Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1920), by Warren Upham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Old Rail Fence Corners: The A.B.C.'s of Minnesota History (second edition, 1914), ed. by Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov

• Check List of Minnesota Imprints, 1849-1865 (American Imprints Inventory #2; Chicago: Historical Records Survey, 1938), by Mamie R. Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Empire of Fur: Trading in the Lake Superior Region (New York: Aladdin Books, 1953), by August Derleth, illust. by Aldren Auld Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861-1865 (second edition, 2 volumes; St. Paul: Printed for the state by the Pioneer press company, 1891-1899), ed. by C. C. Andrews, contrib. by Minnesota (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection (Saint Paul: Minnesota War Records Commission, 1923), by Franklin F. Holbrook (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Restless Ones: A Family History (Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, c1963), by Beatrice Morosco (page images at HathiTrust)

• "Three Score Years and Ten," Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West (1888), by Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

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Books by Minnesota:

• Minnesota, contrib.: Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, 1861-1865 (second edition, 2 volumes; St. Paul: Printed for the state by the Pioneer press company, 1891-1899), ed. by C. C. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)

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