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North Country: The Making of Minnesota (1st Edition) by Mary Lethert Wingerd, Kirsten Delegard, Miriam Wingerd Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-8166-4868-9 / 0816648689 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4868-9 / 9780816648689 In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.–Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirt |