Bring Warm Clothes
A Minnesota Scrapbook
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Bring Warm Clothes tells the stories of lumberjacks, soldiers, homemakers, farmers...
Bring Warm Clothes tells the stories of lumberjacks, soldiers, homemakers, farmers - ordinary people who left us their life stories in the form of letters, diaries and photographs.
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Bring Warm Clothes is a local public television program presented by Minnesota PBS
Bring Warm Clothes
A Minnesota Scrapbook
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Bring Warm Clothes tells the stories of lumberjacks, soldiers, homemakers, farmers - ordinary people who left us their life stories in the form of letters, diaries and photographs.
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Clip: Special | 3m 4s | At the age of eight, Andrew Bell placed a ring on Amanda Lee's finger. Soon after... (3m 4s)
Daniel Fisher, Catholic Seminarian - 1852
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Clip: Special | 4m 12s | This disgruntled seminarian from New York thought he would go West and "tame the... (4m 12s)
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Clip: Special | 3m 51s | Drew was a farmer in Winona. His journal entries reveal the hardships of life on the... (3m 51s)
George Nelson, Furtrader - 1802
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Clip: Special | 3m 9s | At age 16, Nelson left Montreal to become a clerk in a fur trading company. For a... (3m 9s)
Grasshopper Plague, 1873 - 1877
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Clip: Special | 3m 58s | On June 12, 1873, a hot wind from the Southwest brought hoards of Rocky Mountain... (3m 58s)
Gustavus Otto, Army Private - 1849
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Clip: Special | 4m 7s | As was often the case, the army was a haven for fugitives from the law. This may have... (4m 7s)
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Clip: Special | 5m 39s | She arrived in Belle Prairie, Morrison County in 1852, just three years after it had... (5m 39s)
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Clip: Special | 4m 37s | At 21, Glenn headed North to the lumber camps to make money. In a letter to his... (4m 37s)
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Clip: Special | 4m 9s | Taylor was a soldier in the First Minnesota Volunteers unit who died in battle.The... (4m 9s)
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Clip: Special | 2m 12s | A 20-year-old black man from Mobile, Alabama, Johnson came North looking for... (2m 12s)
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Clip: Special | 3m 18s | Benitt chronicled the hardships and happiness of farming in a lifelong correspondence... (3m 18s)
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Clip: Special | 1m 36s | This Hibbing policewoman posted regulations in all the town's public dance halls... (1m 36s)
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Clip: Special | 7m 46s | Like many Minnesota soldiers, Longyear found himself overseas when the U.S. entered... (7m 46s)
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Clip: Special | 2m 8s | The 1880s were Minnesota's boom years. Land was plentiful and immigration was high... (2m 8s)
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