As a historian, one of my favorite periods in history is the mid-1850s when immigrant settlers began scoping out the frontier, selecting townsites and staking claims. This period in local history ...

Nowadays, a vast network of highways ties the southwest suburbs to the rest of the world. However, there was a time when the Minnesota River was the region’s lifeline. Steamboats ferried passengers up ...

This is the first installment in a series of columns about Martin McLeod’s early trek across Minnesota. Minnesota’s frontier was an unforgiving place, of that ...

The myth likely originated from a poetic 1850 newspaper passage in the Minnesota Pioneer suggesting the place once called ...

Janet Holasek Worrall’s memoir chronicles her family’s Czech farm in Eden Prairie, capturing its history before suburban ...