Name: John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936
Brand: Minnesota Historical Society Press
SKU: 0873513169
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John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936

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Paul Maccabee's John Dillinger Slept Here is not just one of the best books ever written about Minneapolis-St. Paul, it is one of the best books of local history I have ever read -- about any city anywhere on Earth. While writing Public Enemies' I kept it on my desk at all times. I daresay one cannot call himself a real Minnesotan if you haven't read it. The book is just that darned good."--Bryan Burrough, author of Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, the basis for Public Enemies, the movie starring Johnny Depp

This book is based on more than 100,000 pages of FBI files and wiretaps, prison and police records, and mob confessions. Interviews with 250 crime victims, policemen, gun molls, and family members of criminals bring these public enemies to life. Crime historian Paul Maccabee takes you inside the bank robberies, gangland assassinations, and police intrigue of St. Paul's 1920s and1930s gangster era. You'll also find Crooks' Tour maps and more than 130 rare FBI, police, and family photographs.

Praise for John Dillinger Slept Here:

"A landmark study of gangland crime."--William J. Helmer, author of Dillinger: The Untold Story

"Maccabee is an authority on his subject which makes John Dillinger Slept Here an enthralling read. " --St. Paul Pioneer Press

Author: Paul Maccabee
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 08/15/1995
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 10.08h x 7.04w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780873513166
ISBN10: 0873513169
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- True Crime | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General

Secrets of the Congdon Mansion

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Author: Joe Kimball
Publisher: Jaykay Publishing, Incorporated
Published: 06/01/2003
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780961377823
ISBN10: 0961377828
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- History | General

The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

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Spanning 150 years, Steven R. Hoffbeck's The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families in five different eras struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a story not just about grass, alfalfa and clover, but also about sweat and fears, toil and loss.

Author: Steven R. Hoffbeck
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 03/01/2002
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780873513951
ISBN10: 0873513959
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- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General

The North Star State: A Minnesota History Reader

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Two hundred years of Minnesota history spring to life in this lively and captivating collection of essays. The North Star State encompasses the wide range of Minnesota's unique past--from the Civil War to the World Wars, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of St. Paul's black sleeping-car porters, from lumber workers and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.

In addition to investigative articles by the state's top historians, editor Anne Aby has assembled captivating first-person accounts from key moments in Minnesota history, including George Nelson's reminiscences of his years in the early nineteenth-century fur trade; the diary of Emily Goodridge Grey, an early African American settler; and Jasper N. Searles's letters home from the Battle of First Bull Run.

Author: Anne J. Aby
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 12/01/2002
Pages: 486
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.06w x 1.39d
ISBN13: 9780873514446
ISBN10: 0873514440
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- Biography & Autobiography | General

The Days of Rondo

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Evelyn Fairbanks lived along Rondo Avenue-the heart of St. Paul's largest black community-from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her memoir tells warm and human stories recalling those years in a vibrant community that vanished with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s.

Author: Evelyn Fairbanks
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 08/15/1990
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.35w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780873512565
ISBN10: 0873512561
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- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- History | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical

The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota: A Guide

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Minnesotans can boast of a treasure trove of historic buildings, landmarks, and sites in our state. This comprehensive guide, useful for travel or armchair research, lists the more than 1,500 historic properties in our state on the famed National Register of Historic Places, the official list of historic properties in the United States that have been deemed worthy of preservation.

Produced by Minnesota's State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), this comprehensive, illustrated guide includes the districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant to the state's history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture. A county-by-county inventory presents descriptive information for each property including name, location, date, architectural style and designer, original owner, and entertaining historical sidelights.

From churches to water towers, lighthouses to shipwrecks, a gas station to a fur-trade depot, this book delivers the wealth and variety of Minnesota's history into your hands.

Author: Mary Ann Nord
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 05/05/2003
Pages: 335
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 7.94h x 4.58w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780873514484
ISBN10: 0873514483
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States | Midwest | General
- Travel | Museums, Tours, Points of Interest
- Architecture | Historic Preservation | General

Family Farm: A Compilation Of Short Stories About Growing Up In Rural Minnesota In The 40's, 50's, and 60's

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Hupalo presents a compilation of short stories about growing up in rural Minnesota in the 40's, 50's, and 60's.

Author: Kathleen F. Hupalo
Publisher: HCM Publishing
Published: 04/30/2002
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.16h x 4.96w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9780967162423
ISBN10: 0967162424
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | General

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Mapping the Farm

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To some, the fields and farms of the Upper Midwest all look the same, but to the people who have struggled to raise families and make a living from the soil, each farm is a "small kingdom" with a rich and often troubled history. In Mapping the Farm, John Hildebrand, whom the New Yorker magazine praised for his "skill of mind and craft," focuses on the O'Neills, the family of his wife Sharon, and their 240 acres near Rochester, Minnesota.

When William O'Neill began raising dairy cows in Minnesota in 1880, America was a nation of farmers. A little over a hundred years later, William's grandson Ed is too old and ill to continue farming. The farm is being chopped into subdivisions, an interstate has cut off access to the river, and changing technology and the tightening market have made small farms a thing of the past. Ed's children and grandchildren gather to try to find a way to keep the farm in the family.

In this absorbing and hauntingly beautiful book, Hildebrand tells the story of four generations of farming O'Neills and, in doing so, tells a quintessentially American story of land and labor, memory and loss--and one family's struggle to keep their dream alive. From boom times to bust, the bloody farm strikes of the Great Depression to the bittersweet optimism of a county fair, Hildebrand weaves a narrative that is at once an elegy for a vanishing way of life and a celebration of the tenacious and deeply held American values that have made today's way of life possible.

Author: John Hildebrand
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 10/15/2001
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.69w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9780873514149
ISBN10: 0873514149
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- History | United States | State & Local | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General

Murder in Minnesota: A Collection of True Cases

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"My investigation of Minnesota murders over the years revealed no new motives for killing anyone. The old ones are perfectly satisfactory. . . . I hope you will find these murders interesting. I regret that I could not report the most ingenious and remarkable ones. They looked like accidents or natural deaths and were never discovered."--Walter N. Trenerry

Murder in Minnesota features some of the state's most infamous criminals--a collection of fascinating and disagreeable characters usually ignored by historians. They live again in these pages as the conniving, clever, mad, or pitiful creatures they were. Fifteen chapters--involving both well-known and obscure practitioners of the deadly art--tell the stories of Ann Blansky, the only woman hanged in Minnesota; the famous Younger brothers, who with the James boys robbed the Northfield bank in 1876; the six Arbogast women of St. Paul, who kept a murderous secret that still remains undisclosed; and many more.

Praise for Murder in Minnesota:

"You should not overlook this exemplary work."--New York Times Book Review

"An exemplary treatment of regional history as revealed by the spotlight of crime. Would that the other . . . state historical societies might follow Minnesota's noble example "--Anthony Boucher, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"A fine example of true-crime writing for all devotees of that form."--San Francisco Chronicle

Author: Walter N. Trenerry
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 04/15/1962
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.44w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780873511803
ISBN10: 0873511808
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- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General

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