Books from Borealis Book
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Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg
By Brian LeehanA study of the First Minnesota Regiment at the battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.
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Unto a Good Land
By Vilhelm MobergThe second book in Moberg's classic Emigrant Novels series.
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The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers
By Richard MoeAs James MacGregor Burns notes in his foreword to the book, 'Like Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' this work sticks close to the men in battle, and hence, like Tolstoy, the author keeps close to the human size of war.
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And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher: Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855
By Linda Mack SchloffLinking the personal and the historical, Linda Mack Schloff integrates oral accounts, diaries, letters, and autobiographies with original research and interpretation to present the little-known story of the Jewish experience in America's ...
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This Business of War: The Recollections of a Civil War Quartermaster
By William G. Le Duc, William Gates Le DucThrough his close association with Generals McClellan and Meade, Hooker and Sherman, Le Duc learned to master the army's bureaucracy and overcome the hardships of trying to keep Union supplies on the move.
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Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912
By Paul David Nelson, Gerald Robert VizenorPresents the life and accomplishments of the noted African American lawyer.
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The Minnesota Book of Days: An Almanac of State History
By Tony GreinerA chronological compendium of remarkable and curious events in the history of the North Star State
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The Minnesota Ethnic Food Book
By Anne R. Kaplan, Marjorie A. HooverThe classic guide to the traditional foods and foodways of Minnesota's major ethnic groups, with more than 150 kitchen-tested recipes.
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Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862
By Gary Clayton Anderson, Alan Roland WoolworthA collection of personal accounts chronicling the experiences of the Native Americans and soldiers who fought in the Minnesota Indian War of 1862.
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Minnesota Goes to War: The Home Front During World War II
By Dave KenneyThese stories honor Minnesotans who faced the war with equal amounts of determination and dread, courage and fear in places as far away as the Pacific and Europe and as close as our own hometowns.
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The Story of Cole Younger by Himself: Being an Autobiography of the Missouri Guerrilla Captain and Outlaw, His Capture and...
By Cole YoungerIn The Story of Cole Younger, long out-of-print, he tells his story in his own words after his parole from prison at the age of 59.
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History of the Ojibway People
By William Whipple WarrenDuring the early period of white settlement, William Warren-the son of a white man and an Ojibway woman-recorded the oral traditions of the Ojibway Indians of the Upper Mississippi and Lake Superior regions.
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Big Little Brother
By Kevin KlingA four-year-old boy explains that his little brother is bigger than he is, follows him everywhere, and is annoying, but his presence becomes indispensable when bullies are around.