Minnesota Mayhem: A History of Calamitous Events, Horrific Accidents, Dastardly Crime & Dreadful Behavior in the Land of Ten Thousand La

by Ben Welter

Book Overview

Turn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota's past and explore the best of the state's worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers. These stories and photos, culled from the Star Tribune's microfilm archive by author Ben Welter, range from the catastrophic to the merely curious. From a fire that destroyed the State Capitol in 1881, to a wordless fistfight that broke out on a Minneapolis street in 1898, a flu...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609495977
• ISBN13: 9781609495978
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"