A Capital Place

Memories of a Minnesota Life

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, State & Local, Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: David Laureen ISBN: 9781469713779
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: September 1, 2002
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: David Laureen
ISBN: 9781469713779
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: September 1, 2002
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

A CAPITAL PLACE

...is how the author remembers Minnesota's historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century captial of the Ojibwe Nation, and strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superiorroute follwed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota History.

In this Reminiscence spanning more than a half-century, Laursen writes of boyhood days on a primitive Sandy Lake fishing resort, of his long struggle to become a writer, of exciting years with a youthful Medtronic and of the inspiring seqence of events which led him and wife to a Bed & Breakfast Inn on the shores of Leech Lake.

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A CAPITAL PLACE

...is how the author remembers Minnesota's historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century captial of the Ojibwe Nation, and strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superiorroute follwed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota History.

In this Reminiscence spanning more than a half-century, Laursen writes of boyhood days on a primitive Sandy Lake fishing resort, of his long struggle to become a writer, of exciting years with a youthful Medtronic and of the inspiring seqence of events which led him and wife to a Bed & Breakfast Inn on the shores of Leech Lake.

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