Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past

A classic book of photos, memories, and writings from centuries of Minnesota life—updated and in a new format.

The earliest European visitors to Minnesota marvel at the area's flora and fauna. A soldier at Fort Snelling contemplates deserting. Swedish settler Andrew Peterson makes a daily record of his haying schedule, dropping in, without comment, a note of his marriage. Sarah Christie pleads with her father in the 1880s for a chance to go to college. Turn—of—the—century accountant Walter...