Reviews for Minnesota on the Map: A Historical Atlas

The average rating for Minnesota on the Map: A Historical Atlas based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-13 00:00:00 Kevin Barry A sprawling, comprehensive history of Chicago in the 19th Century, when the city rose from a swampy trading post to one of the greatest industrial metropolises of the world. My only reservation is that I've already read about many of Miller's major subjects (Pullman, the stockyards, the 1893 World's Fair, Jane Addams) in book-length studies elsewhere, so much of this wasn't new to me. Still, his sections on early French exploration, the first white settlers, architecture and journalists were quite interesting to me.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-26 00:00:00 Robert Mosby Here are some things I learned from this book: - They have to literally lift up all the buildings one time to put in a sewage system and everyone went out to watch the buildings rise like a foot off the ground???? - Saloons used to have free lunches!!!! - The population grew so quickly I can't imagine living somewhere the changed so much over the course of a lifetime. - Frank Lloyd Wright said that "The Art Institute is a stupid building." - Ida B. Wells is rad af I need to read more about her.