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Minnesota - A State Guide
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A STATE GUIDE Compiled and Written by the federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES ILLUSTRATED Sponsored by the il 3 State of Minnesota THE VIKING PRESS NEW YORK MCMXXXVIII THE MINNESOTA STATE RELIEF AGENCY STATE CAPITOL ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR HERMAN J. AUFDERHEIDE Through funds allocated by the Executive Council, State of Minnesota, to the State Relief Agency, the publication of this volume, the first major work of the Federal Writers Project of Minnesota, has been made pos sible. In Minnesota A State Guide there is presented for the first time a full-length portrait of our State. From countless persons and sources the details of our rich heritage have been compiled for residents who wish to know their own community more intimately, and for the visitor who seeks the colorful history that lies behind these prairie cities and villages, these forests and ten thousand lakes. Here is a book that takes us from the long-forgotten English fur traders, French coureurs de bois, and warring Indians to a highly complex present in which great industries and co operatives have crowded out the last traces of the frontier. The results of these dramatic changes have been recorded on the physical horizons of the State. How best to see them by canoe, by automobile, and on foot, as well as how best to understand their significance, has been the purpose in the compilation of this book. THE MINNESOTA STATE RELIEF AGENCY HERMAN J. AUFDERHEIDE Administrator St. Paul, Minnesota October x, 1938 Preface THE Minnesota unit of the Federal Writers Project offers its contribu tion to the American Guide Series in a spirit of deep humility. We franklyadmit that the net result of our work falls far short of the book we visual ized in November 1935 when we started out so enthusiastically on its prep aration. At that time we had little conception of the complexities of our task. Even less did we realize the extravagance of our hope of compressing between two covers a State 84,000 square miles in area, whose interests and resources were as varied as its topography. An avalanche of facts, actual and near, began to pour into the State office. Even after each had been tested we still had enough to make a series rather than one volume. The weeding out was a long and often painful process. Had not Dr. Folwell required four large volumes for the history of Minnesota We must tell the story, and tell it fairly, in a single essay. Communities that merited a chapter at least, must be squeezed into a few lines. Local pride, however justified, must be sternly repressed. From sins of commission we hope to have guarded ourselves fairly well with the help of consulting authorities. But for our sins of omission we have no defense other than the imposed space limitations. If, despite its shortcomings, the book has merit and we may as well admit we think it has some credit is due largely to the generous co operation we have received on all sides. To the many volunteers who sent us local stones and photographs we offer our profound thanks, and beg their forgiveness and leniency for our enforced treatment of their material. Outstanding was the help given us by the University of Minnesota, whose department heads not only read our manuscripts and proffered invaluable suggestions, but permitted us to turn to them again and again as our court of last appeal bythe Minnesota Historical Society, its head and staff, who gave so generously of their knowledge and records by the State Depart ment of Education, whose commissioner rescued us in one of our darkest moments by all those librarians to whom we fear we were a persistent trial by the unfailing confidence and support we received from our State Administrator. We hope that in the Minnesota Guide they will find something to justify the time and sympathy they gave so freely. The Minnesota Federal Writers Project MABEL S... |
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