It Happened in Minnesota

(1) Foreword (2) Hennepin's Wild Adventures, 1680 (3) Pike's Forgotten Discovery, 1806 (4) Pipestone, 1831 (5) Instant City: Just Add Residents, 1852 (6) Robbing St. Peter to Pay St. Paul, 1857 (7) Dakota Sioux War, 1862 (8) Hangmen: The Largest Execution in U.S. History, 1862 (9) Just What the Doctor Ordered: The Founding of the Mayo Clinic, 1865 (10) Good Medicine: Watkins at Your Front Door, 1868 (11) Frozen Stiff: The Minnesota Blizzard, 1873 (12) The Wild, Wild West of Minnesota, 1876 (13) The End of an Era: Minnesota is Settled, 1878 (14) Burning Down the House: The State Capitol Burns, 1881 (15) Virginia, Minnesota: The Town So Nice it Burned Twice, 1893 and 1900 (16) Two Trains to Salvation, 1894 (17) History Set in Stone: The Discovery of the Kensington Rune Stone, 1898 (18) Black Mass, 1915 (19) Walking On Water: Water Skiing is Invented, 1922 (20) The Birth of Betty Crocker, 1924 (21) Out of this World: The Milky Way in Minnesota, 1924 (22) The Milford Mine Tragedy, 1924 (23) Minnesota's Oldest Residents, 1931 (24) SPAMtastic: The Birth of SPAM, 1936 (25) The Armistice Day Blizzard, 1940 (26) The Night that Music Lived, 1959 (27) It's a Hit: Homer Hankies, 1987 (28) The Ninth Wonder of the World, 1992 (29) The Ragin' Red: The Flood of East Grand Forks, 1997 (30) The Body Becomes The Governor, 1998 (31) The Death of the American Conscience: Paul Wellstone Passing, 2002 (32) The Spirit that Wouldn't Die: Grain Belt Beer, 2003 (33) Minnesota Potpourri (34) Bibliography (35) About the Author