A Popular History of Minnesota

What do Paul Bunyan, Charles Lindbergh, and Jesse Ventura have in common? Minnesota, of course. In A Popular History of Minnesota, historian Norman K. Risjord offers a grand tour of the state's remarkable history, taking readers through the centuries and into the lives of those colorful characters who populate Minnesota's past.

This highly readable volume details everything from the glacial formation of the land to the arrival of the Dakota and the Ojibwe people, from Minnesota's contribution…