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Becoming the Twin Cities: Swindles, Schemes, and Enduring Rivalries
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ISBN13：9781681343235
出版社：MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOC PR
作者：Drew M. Ross
出版日：2025/11/11
裝訂：平裝
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商品簡介
Whether
motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many
have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have
failed. This book explains why. Why haven't Minneapolis and St.
Paul merged into one city? In Becoming the Twin Cities, award-winning
writer Drew M. Ross uncovers the nineteenth-century history of scheming and
self-dealing, social rivalries and political grudges, and utopian idealism and
personal ambition that explains how the Twin Cities became the separate cities
with different governments and distinct personalities that we know today. Beginning with the
story of Fort Snelling's founding and Joseph Plympton's expansion of a reserve
around it, Ross follows up with the land-grabbing and money-making schemes of
Henry Rice and Franklin Steele, explores the rivalries between local
Republicans and Democrats (and their partisan newspapers), and details the
battles over the locations and significance of the capitol, the state fair, and
the Midway neighborhood. Figures like Lieutenant Zebulon Pike and tavern keeper
Stephen Desnoyer, visionary architect Horace W. S. Cleveland, religious leader
(and land speculator) Archbishop John Ireland, and the pugnacious publisher
Bill King--all had a hand in the push-pull tension that has fundamentally shaped
the Twin Cities to this day. Unlike Fort
Snelling's river confluence location from which the cities were born or the St.
Anthony Falls that powered their growth, the Twin Cities do not align to a
natural or inevitable division on the map. Instead, people made the border
between Minneapolis and St. Paul, attempted to erase it, and ultimately
underscored it. Becoming the Twin Cities examines the historical
underpinnings of a beloved American metropolitan region's unique identity.
motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many
have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have
failed. This book explains why. Why haven't Minneapolis and St.
Paul merged into one city? In Becoming the Twin Cities, award-winning
writer Drew M. Ross uncovers the nineteenth-century history of scheming and
self-dealing, social rivalries and political grudges, and utopian idealism and
personal ambition that explains how the Twin Cities became the separate cities
with different governments and distinct personalities that we know today. Beginning with the
story of Fort Snelling's founding and Joseph Plympton's expansion of a reserve
around it, Ross follows up with the land-grabbing and money-making schemes of
Henry Rice and Franklin Steele, explores the rivalries between local
Republicans and Democrats (and their partisan newspapers), and details the
battles over the locations and significance of the capitol, the state fair, and
the Midway neighborhood. Figures like Lieutenant Zebulon Pike and tavern keeper
Stephen Desnoyer, visionary architect Horace W. S. Cleveland, religious leader
(and land speculator) Archbishop John Ireland, and the pugnacious publisher
Bill King--all had a hand in the push-pull tension that has fundamentally shaped
the Twin Cities to this day. Unlike Fort
Snelling's river confluence location from which the cities were born or the St.
Anthony Falls that powered their growth, the Twin Cities do not align to a
natural or inevitable division on the map. Instead, people made the border
between Minneapolis and St. Paul, attempted to erase it, and ultimately
underscored it. Becoming the Twin Cities examines the historical
underpinnings of a beloved American metropolitan region's unique identity.
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