Hal’s Quotes & Notes: Minnesota

Alphabetical links:

	Author	Title	Minnesota connection

B top of page	Conrad Balfour	A Sack Full of Sun	Memoir by a Minnesota Commissioner of Human Rights
B top of page	Winifred W. Barton	John P. Williamson: A Brother to the Sioux	Biography of a missionary born in, and who worked in, Minnesota

C	Nick Coleman	newspaper columns	regular columnist in the Star Tribune

D	Mark Diedrich	Little Paul Christian Leader of the Dakota Peace Party	Biography of a Dakota chief

F top of page	F. Scott Fitzgerald	The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald	Stories set in a fictional version of, or inspired by events in, St. Paul
F top of page	William Watts Folwell	A History of Minnesota Volume I Volume 2	A history written by an early president of the University of Minnesota

K	Garrison Keillor	Leaving Home	News from Lake Wobegon

L top of page	Dr. Elden Lawrence	The Peace Seekers Indian Christians and the Dakota Conflict	about the conflict of 1862
L top of page	James Lileks	newspaper columns	regular columnist in the Star Tribune

M	Thomas Maltman	The Night Birds	Historical novel set largely in Minnesota, 1849–1876

R	Stephen R. Riggs	Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux	Memoir by a missionary who worked in Minnesota

W	Bishop Henry B. Whipple	Duty of Citizens Concerning the Indian Massacre	Letter published in a St. Paul newspaper in 1862
Portions of some of these works are included in a set of readings on the causes of the 1862 Dakota War.
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