by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 12, 2024 | Manifest Destiny, migrations, Minnesota, Minnesota Indian uprising, Minnesota Indians
My family doesn’t trace lineage to the Mayflower, played no roles in the Revolutionary War or the Civil War. And I don’t remember anyone referring to our grandparents and great grandparents as “migrants”; they were “immigrants,” people from specific European places...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jun 8, 2022 | Hobos, Minnesota
When I was young in a small town in northern Minnesota, hobos stayed in the stockyard by the railway tracks not far from our house. We—a small group of 6-and-7-year-old urchins, would throw rocks on the tin roofs of the stockyard sheds, and, seeing or not seeing a...
