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Bohemian Flats
By: Federal Writer's Program
Format: Paper, xxix, 55 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: MHS Press (1986)
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ISBN 0-87351-200-6

Compiled by the workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota ; with an introduction by Thaddeus Radzilowsky.

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Halfway Home
By: Mary Logue
Format: Paper, 201 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-332-0

A Granddaughter's Biography
"My grandmother, Mae Kirwin, scared me." With that disturbing, distant memory, mystery novelist Mary Logue begins her exploration of the life of her mother's mother, who died more than thirty years ago.

Midwest Reflections

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Hard Work and a Good Deal
By: Barbara W. Sommer
Format: Cloth, 205 pages, 7.25 x 10.5 in.
Publisher: MHS Press; February 2008
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ISBN: 0-87351612-5

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota

CCC veterans tell compelling stories of their experiences planting trees, fighting fires, building state parks, and reclaiming pastureland in this collective history of the CCC in Minnesota.

Winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Award in the Minnesota Category

Winner of the 2009 Northeast Minnesota Book Award in the General Nonfiction Category

Winner of the 2009 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)

Reading Guide

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New Deal at the Grass Roots
By: D. Jerome Tweton
Format: Paper, 215 pp., 1988, illus., bibliog., index
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-233-2

Programs for the People in Otter Tail County, Minnesota
In the first case study of its kind, Tweton explores the New Deal in one Minnesota county: how programs operated, what impact they had on communities and people, and how people responded. The story he tells is based on oral history interviews, township and village records, files of government papers, and county newspapers.

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Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943
By: Edited with text by Robert L. Reid
Format: Paper, 200 pp., 171 b&w photos
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-248-0

Photographs from the Farm Security Administration
During the Great Depression, photographers working for Franklin D. Roosevelt's Farm Security Administration (FSA) began traveling across America taking pictures of ordinary people and places. The images became a permanent part of our national legacy -- "the most remarkable human documents that were ever rendered in pictures," according to Edward Steichen.

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Reapers of the Dust
By: Lois Phillips Hudson
Format: Paper, xvi, 173 pp., 1984
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-177-8

A Prairie Chronicle
First published in 1965, her childhood recollections of living in North Dakota are what Lois Phillips Hudson used to spin these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days and of continuing battles with the hostile elements on the Great Plains during the 1930s. Lois Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression.

New Introduction by the author

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River Journey
By: Clarence Jonk
Format: Paper, 240 pages
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-435-1

A small classic of travel writing and an indelible portrait of a young man coming of age during the Great Depression.

Introduction by William Least Heat-Moon.

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The Magical Years: A Boyhood Revisited
By: Walter W. Benjamin
Format: Paperback, 455 pg., 6 x 9 in.
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
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ISBN: 1931646058

Memories of growing up as the son of a country doctor in Minnesota during the Great Depression.

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The Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
By: Philip A. Korth
Format: Hardcover, 213 pages, 6 x 9 in.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
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ISBN: 0870133853

An exploration of the political, social, and economic circumstances which came together in violent conflict during the spring and summer of 1934 in Minneapolis.

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The WPA Guide to Minnesota
By: The Federal Writers Project
Introduction by Frederick Manfred
Format: Paper, 548 pp., 14 b&w illus., chronology, bibliography, index
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-185-9

The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota
A beguiling travel guide and history lesson in one, this volume offers an unprecedented look at Minnesota and its people.

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The WPA Guide to the Minnesota Arrowhead Country
By: Workers of the Writers’ Program of the WPA
Format: paper, 272 pp., 6 X 9, 1 map, index, bibliography
Publisher: MHS Press
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ISBN 0-87351-634-6

The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s Minnesota

Now with a new introduction by Cathy Wurzer, host of MPR's Morning Edition and TPT's Almanac.

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