Minnesota geographic names;: Their origin and historic significance (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society)

Upham, Warren

Minnesota Historical Society

Minnesota Geographic Names

Science & Math

Minnesota Historical Society Pr

The names of places, the names that people give to the land, the rivers, the towns, and the cities, contain miniature history lessons, stories wrapped up in a few words. Naming a place is a way of connecting to it and making it more familar. An important aspect of identity, place names honor the past, telling who came before us, and they speak to the future, telling of our hopes and ambitions. And sometimes, they're simply products of our whimsy. From Big Bird Lake to Cucumber Island, Big Stone to Wanamingo, Puposky Township to the Zumbro River, thousands of discoveries await the reader of Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. Newly revised, expanded, and updated, this classic book tells the stories behind more than 20,000 names of the towns and cities, townships and counties, lakes and rivers of the North Star state. This comprehensive volume is a browser's delight and a rich reference for historians, linguists, geographers, folklorists, genealogists, and those interested in the origin of place names. It includes tales for such curious place names as Embarrass and Sleepy Eye, Bemidji and Climax, the Rum River and Man Trap Lake. Did you know that the Rat Root River was named for the roots that fed muskrats that populated its banks, or that Winona is the Dakota word for "first-born daughter"? Published originally in 1920 as the culmination of Warren Upham's lifetime of collecting Minnesota minutiae, this book is a remarkable achievement and classic of Minnesota history. For this revised edition, the staff of the Minnesota Historical Society combed recent literature and databases to update entries and add new names. In this handsome new edition, Minnesota Place Names captures much of the lost lore of familiar places and of towns that have disappeared—and of the people who made the state what it is today.

Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Minnesota Historical Society Press

Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants, Indigenous, Naturalized, and Adventive

Biological Sciences

Legare Street Press

The ice age in North America and its Bearing Upon the Antiquity of man. 5th ed. With Many new Maps and Illus., enl. and Rewritten to Incorporate the ... Agassiz and the Probable Cause of Glaciation

History

Wright, G Frederick 1838-1921

Americas

This groundbreaking work explores the relationship between the Ice Age and human civilization in North America. Wright and Upham provide detailed scientific analysis, including new maps and illustrations, to shed light on the history and culture of the region. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the prehistory of North America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Minnesota in Three Centuries, 1655-1908

Literature & Fiction

Hubbard, Lucius Frederick

Murray, William Pitt

Literary

BiblioLife

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Minnesota Geographic Names: their Origin and Historic Significance

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