Download or read book The Sea Wing Disaster written by Frederick L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sea Wing Disaster written by Frederick L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Disasters in Southeast Minnesota written by Steve Gardiner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Minnesota has regularly felt the wrath of nature. In 1890, a driving straight-line wind on Lake Pepin overturned the Sea Wing, killing ninety-eight people within minutes in the worst marine tragedy in Minnesota history. In 1940, a raging blizzard trapped duck hunters on islands in the Mississippi River and left motorists stranded across the region, leaving dozens injured or dead. Then, in 1965, flood waters of the Mississippi River and its vast network of tributaries kept area residents in fear for two months, shattering records for high water marks and destroying buildings and farmlands before receding and leaving behind damage that took years to rebuild. Local author Steve Gardiner examines these powerful natural disasters and their ramifications on the people of Southeast Minnesota.
Download or read book This Storied River written by Dennis McCann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Storied River, longtime journalist Dennis McCann takes us on an intimate tour of the Upper Mississippi—from Dubuque, Iowa, to the Minnesota headwaters, and dozens of places in between. Far more than a travel guide, This Storied River celebrates the Upper Mississippi’s colorful history and the unique role the river has played in shaping the Midwest.
Download or read book Haunted Minnesota written by Charles A. Stansfield and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes • Arrowhead's Devil Dogs • Spirits of the Vikings • Phantom racehorse Dan Patch • The legend of the fearsome Windego • The ghost ship Minnesota
Download or read book Immortal River written by Calvin R. Fremling and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.
Download or read book Report written by Minnesota. Adjutant General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1868/1869-1869/1870, 1875/1876 includes the Report of the Board of Trustees of the Soldier's Orphans Home.
Download or read book Outing written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi River Mayhem written by Dean Klinkenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his memoir, Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain personified the river as “Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of whiskey for breakfast when I’m in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing!” Twain’s time as a steamboat pilot showed him the true character of The Great River, with its unpredictable moods and hidden secrets. Still a vital route for U.S. shipping, the Mississippi River has given life to riverside communities, manufacturing industries, fishing, tourism, and other livelihoods. But the Mighty Mississippi has also claimed countless lives as tribute to its muddy waters. Climate and environmental conditions made the Mississippi the perfect incubator for diseases like malaria. Natural disasters, like tornadoes, floods, and even an earthquake, have changed and reshaped the river’s banks over thousands of years. Shipwrecks and steamboat explosions were once common in the difficult-to-navigate waters. But when there was money to be made, there were some willing to risk it all—from the brave steamboat captains who went down with their ships, to the illegal moonshiners and pirates who pillaged the river’s bounty. In this book, author and Mississippi River historian Dean Klinkenberg explores the many disastrous events to have occurred on and along the river in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—from steamboat explosions, to Yellow Fever epidemics, floods, and Prohibition piracy. Enjoy this journey into the darkest deeds of the Mississippi River.
Download or read book Minnesota History written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
Download or read book Report of the Minnesota State Board of Health and Vital Statistics 1888 89 1890 91 written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Weird Minnesota written by Eric Dregni and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of Camp Lakeview National Guard Training Camp 1881 1931 Lake City Minnesota written by Andru Peters and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Camp Lakeview National Guard Training Camp 1881-1931, Lake City, Minnesota By: Andru Peters History of Camp Lakeview National Guard Training Camp shares the history of Lake City, founded in 1872, and its Camp Lakeview, a space where Minnesota National Guardsmen and state militia members trained for fifty years in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, during our country’s involvement in the Spanish-American War, Mexican Border War, and World War I. In this history, notable soldiers and leaders are highlighted and their impact on history noted.
Download or read book Handbook of First Aid Treatment for Survivors of Disasters at Sea written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biennial Report on Vital Statistics written by Minnesota. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
