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"item_title" : "Joseph R. Brown Adventurer on the Minnesota Frontier 1820-1849",
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Overview
Adventurer in reference to Joseph Renshaw Brown, includes careers as soldier, fur trader, entrepreneur, lumberman, founder of cities, politician, speculator, legislator, editor, Indian agent, Minnesota promoter, opportunist and optimist. He was there when Minnesota was the roaring frontier. He often found himself 200 miles from the law, a newspaper on the road. He was praised, denounced, investigated, applauded, threatened and shot at. This book is a chronicle of life, free enterprise and politics on the frontier a lively, dangerous and different frontier. This story is not only about hard-won successes, whose monuments still stand, but of hard-lost failures that left little trace.
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- ISBN-13: 9781883477127
- ISBN-10: 1883477123
- Publisher: Lone Oak Press
- Publish Date: January 1996
- Dimensions: 9.28 x 6.33 x 1.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.52 pounds
- Page Count: 346
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