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Lädt ... Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia16 | Keine | 1,307,982 | Keine | Keine | 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.… (mehr) |
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▾Literaturhinweise Literaturhinweise zu diesem Werk aus externen Quellen. Wikipedia auf Englisch (87)Albert Huntington Chester Amelia Lake Arthyde, Minnesota Ashton, Minnesota Bardon Peak Barn Bluff (Red Wing, Minnesota) Bear Valley Grange Hall Blue Earth River Bodum, Minnesota Carnegie, Minnesota Cazenovia, Minnesota Cedar, Minnesota Clayton, Minnesota Constance, Minnesota Coopers Corner, Minnesota Craigville, Minnesota Cyrus Northrop Dale, Minnesota Danebod Dickinson, Minnesota Disappointment Mountain Dromedary Hills Dutch Lake East Lake, Minnesota East Savanna River Elkwood Township, Roseau County, Minnesota Enterprise, Minnesota Fairland, Minnesota Farm Island Lake Fernando, Minnesota | Forestville, Minnesota Franz Sigel Giese, Minnesota Glen, Minnesota Glory, Minnesota Godahl, Minnesota | Mount Northrop Mount Reunion Muskoda, Minnesota New Prairie, Minnesota Nininger, Minnesota North Shore Highlands Oak Lake, Minnesota Parkton, Minnesota Pelan, Minnesota Philbrook, Minnesota Pinewood, Minnesota Pomme de Terre, Minnesota Prospect Mountain (Minnesota) Rabey, Minnesota River Junction, Minnesota Ronald, Minnesota Rossburg, Minnesota Rum River San Francisco, Minnesota Sawtooth Mountains (Minnesota) Shell City, Minnesota Spina, Minnesota Split Rock River Territorial era of Minnesota Whitewater Falls, Minnesota Winner, Minnesota Winnipeg Junction, Minnesota |
» Zeige 69 weitere an ▾Buchbeschreibungen 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. ▾Bibliotheksbeschreibungen Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. ▾Beschreibung von LibraryThing-Mitgliedern
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