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The Minnesota Book Collection is a collection of 34 volumes relating to the history of Minnesota and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures. All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

1. Encyclopedia of biography of Minnesota. History of Minnesota (1900) - Flandrau, Charles Eugene - 497 pages
2. Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 Volume 1 (1908) - Hubbard, Lucius F. (Lucius Frederick); Murray, William Pitt; Baker, James H; Upham, Warren; Holcombe, Return I.; Holmes, Frank R. - 390 pages
3. Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 Volume 2 (1908) - Hubbard, Lucius F. (Lucius Frederick); Murray, William Pitt; Baker, James H; Upham, Warren; Holcombe, Return I.; Holmes, Frank R. - 513 pages
4. Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 Volume 3 (1908) - Hubbard, Lucius F. (Lucius Frederick); Murray, William Pitt; Baker, James H; Upham, Warren; Holcombe, Return I.; Holmes, Frank R. - 546 pages
5. Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 Volume 4 (1908) - Hubbard, Lucius F. (Lucius Frederick); Murray, William Pitt; Baker, James H; Upham, Warren; Holcombe, Return I.; Holmes, Frank R. - 458 pages
6. History of education in Minnesota (1905) - Kiehle, David L. (David Litchard) - 47 pages
7. History of Methodism in Minnesota (1887) - Hobart, Chauncey - 397 pages
8. History of the Minnesota Valley (1882) - Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield); Bryant, Charles S. - 1016 pages
9. History of Goodhue County, Minnesota (1909) - Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn - 1074 pages
10. History and civil government of Minnesota (1897) - Niles, Sanford; Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron) - 307 pages
11. Our Minnesota, a history for children (1917) - Pollock, Hester McLean - 373 pages
12. An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912) - Rose, Arthur P. - 616 pages
13. History of Rice and Steele counties, Minnesota Volume 1 (1910) - Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn; Jewett, Stephen - 801 pages
14. History of Rice and Steele counties, Minnesota Volume 2 (1910) - Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn; Jewett, Stephen - to page 1560
15. An illustrated history of Nobles County, Minnesota (1908) - Rose, Arthur P. - 637 pages
16. An illustrated history of Jackson County, Minnesota (1910) - Rose, Arthur P. - 586 pages
17. The history of Renville County, Minnesota Volume 1 (1916) - Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn - 675 pages
18. The history of Renville County, Minnesota Volume 2 (1916) - Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn - to page 1376
19. History of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota Part 1 (1893) - Atwater, Isaac - 544 pages
20. History of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota Part 2 (1893) - Atwater, Isaac - to page 1010
21. Minnesota; a state guide (1938) - Writers' Program (Minn.) - 523 pages
22. How Minnesota became a state (1898) - Moran, Thomas Francis - 41 pages
23. Minnesota and the far West (1855) - Oliphant, Laurence - 306 pages
24. Minnesota, the North star state (1908) - Folwell, William Watts - 382 pages
25. H. P. Hall's observations; being more or less a history of political contests in Minnesota from 1849 to 1904 (1904) - Hall, H. P. (Harlan Page) - 384 pages
26. History of the First regiment Minnesota volunteer infantry, 1861-1864 (1916) - Searles, Jasper Newton; Taylor, Matthew F.; Holcombe, Return Ira - 508 pages
27. A history of the Swedish-Americans of Minnesota Volume 1 (1910) - Strand, A. E. (Algot E.) - 366 pages
28. A history of the Swedish-Americans of Minnesota Volume 2 (1910) - Strand, A. E. (Algot E.) - to page 764
29. A history of the Swedish-Americans of Minnesota Volume 3 (1910) - Strand, A. E. (Algot E.) - to page 1147
30. The government of Minnesota, its history and administration (1901) - McVey, Frank Le Rond - 236 pages
31. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota (1888) - 610 pages
32. Compendium of history and biography of Polk County, Minnesota (1916) - Holcombe, R. I. (Return Ira) - 487 pages
33. History of Rice County, including explorers and pioneers of Minnesota and outline history of the state of Minnesota (1882) - Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield); Bryant, Charles S. - 603 pages
34. History of Steele and Waseca counties, Minnesota : an album of history and biography, embracing sketches of the villages, cities, and townships : educational, civil, military, and political history : portraits of prominent citizens, and biographies of old settlers and representative men (1887) - 756 pages

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