Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Contents -- Hail! Minnesota -- Timeline -- Two Billion Years Ago -- The Fall of the Dakota -- Henry Hastings Sibley -- Paul Maccabee's Five Minnesota Gangsters -- A Night at the Fair -- The Mayo -- Essentials -- What's in a Name -- You Know You're From Minnesota When -- Patrick Coleman's Minnesota Reads -- Lake Wobegon -- Matched, Detached, Hatched and Dispatched -- U of M -- Minnesota Shorthand -- From Beanfeeds to Booyas, Why it isn't Ishda to Eat Lutefisk, a Line-up of the 10,000 Lakes Lexicon -- Karen Lybec's Accent Spotting -- Howard Mohr Explains How to Talk Minnesotan -- Ole and Lena -- Slang -- Town and City -- From Alexandria to Winona, "What's In a Name?" -- Boyd Huppert's Capital Collections -- Haunted Minnesota -- Twin Cities -- Walnut Grove -- Ramsey Leaves His Mark -- The County Name Game -- Weather -- Cold and Snow -- King Boreas -- Coldest, Hottest and Windiest Record Champs -- One State, Many Climates -- Severe Weather Events -- Trick or Sleet -- White Christmas -- Pete Boulay's Weather Memories -- Tornadoes -- Heat -- Natural World -- Largest Lakes -- Bryan Wood's Must-See Natural Wonders . . . -- The Mighty Walleye -- Bzzzzzzzzzz -- BWCAW -- Parks and Rec -- M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I -- Hiking and Biking -- Paul Stafford's Photogenic Places -- Culture -- Minnesota in Hollywood -- His Purple Majesty -- Music, Dance and Theater -- Adam Granger's Secrets of the Prairie Home Companion -- Brothers Coen -- Stories from the Jazz Age -- Susan Marie Swanson's 5 Great Minnesota Picture Books -- Winter Fun -- Minnesota Authors -- Food -- 5 Items You Can Eat on A Stick -- Jeremy Iggers on Changing Eating Habits -- Andrew Zimmern's Ode to Minnesota Cuisine -- Places for Minnesota Comfort Food -- The Farmer's Market -- Spam -- Blue Ribbon Recipes from the State Fair -- Economy.

On Target -- By the Numbers: GDP and All That Stuff -- Minnesota Billionaires -- Homegrown Inventions -- Malling of America -- Eric Wieffering on Minnesota and the Fortune 500 -- Owning and Renting -- Industrial Titans -- One Day at a Time -- The Genius of General Mills -- The Biggest Company You've Never Heard of -- People -- Ancestry and Immigration by the Numbers -- Minnesota Nice -- Cheri Register's 5 Great Minnesota Memoirs -- American Indian Movement -- Germans, Hermann, and Peanuts -- A Norse Saga -- Karl Oskar -- Luck of the Irish -- Nellie Johnson -- LGBT -- Politics -- Shutdown -- The Jesse and Al Show -- Al Quie on How to Get Elected -- Dane Smith's Significant Political Events -- Playing for the Other Team? -- Getting Paid -- Coya Knutson -- Carol Connolly's Wonder Women -- HHH -- Crime and Punishment -- Crime through Time -- Death Row -- Ponzi Scheme Tip-Offs -- Hanging by Invitation -- Ma Barker -- James-Younger Gang -- Jail by the Numbers -- Car Crashes -- Then and Now -- Population, Life Expectancy and Income over Time -- Boundary Waters Buddies -- Annette Atkins on What Makes Minnesota Minnesota -- Death Becomes You -- Wilmar 8 -- Women's Work in 1900 -- Whiskey Superstar -- Seed Power -- Depression and War.