CCHPS publications are available for sale!
To place an order today:
Please click on Publications Order Form
print it out, fill it out, and send along with a check or money order to:
Cuyuna Iron Range Heritage Network
P.O. Box 272
Crosby, MN 56441
— or stop by our office in Crosby —
We are in the lower level of the Unity Bank on Main Street.
CUYUNA COUNTRY: A PEOPLES' HISTORY [all three volumes] and THE MILFORD MINE DISASTER can be purchased at several locations for your convenience. In Crosby our books are available at the Heritage Office and also at the Depot Museum; the J.F. Hallett Memorial Library; Crosby City Hall; and Range Drug. These books can also be found at Book World in the Westgate Mall, Brainerd; and Grammas Treasures in Ironton.
Thanks to all for supporting our work at CCHPS!
In addition to recipes, the book includes a history of cookery from the 1800s to the present, with photos and brief biographies of many of the contributors, including their memories of how those recipes came to be. It is liberally illustrated with old-time photographs, most of them from the albums of Cuyuna Country residents. $29.95
(+$2.06 MN sales tax if applicable +$6.00 S&H )
Cuyuna Country: A Peoples' History
VOLUMES I, II, and III ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR SALE!
Volume I
Volume 1 sets the scene for the arrival of the first settlers and homesteaders to this area. The stories include:
- prehistoric Native American settlement through the Dakota and the Ojibwe inhabitations
- the early fur trade, from the Canadian border to the outposts at Crow Wing County
- the Louisiana Purchase which included most of Minnesota
- Minnesota statehood
- The Homestead Act of 1862
- the Northern Pacific Railroad Company chartered by the United States to forge a road from Duluth to Puget Sound
- the timber industry from Minneapolis northward to the Cross Lake Logging Company, the logging railroad, and many logging camps
- and, most importantly, the facinating stories of the first settlers and homesteaders to Bay Lake, Deerwood, Crosby, Ironton, Dean Lake, Ross Lake, Crosslake, Eagle Lake (Fifty Lakes today), Emily, Little Pine, Old Outing, The Narrows (Outing today).
(+$2.06 MN sales tax +$6.00 S&H)
Volume II covers the time period from the early 1900s to just after World War II. There are exciting stories about the iron mining era that transformed this area into a unique melting pot of cultures. Immigrants from many countries poured in to take advantage of the new "well-paid" work!
This "peoples" history, from medicine and schools to service groups and the military, tells the story from the lives of those who lived it. $29.95
(+$2.06 MN sales tax +$6.00 S&H) Volume III
The third and final volume of the histories covers the period from roughly 1950 to publication in 2004. The challenge of many towns and townships following the closing of the mines--their main reason for existence--is a story not only of survival but also of success. The skills, persistence, and courage it took to work far below the surface of the ground or with massive equipment in the pits are the same attributes that resulted in our area's successful machining and other manufacturing businesses. As is the case with the first two books, Volume III tells the history of medical progress, businesses, schools, and the contributions of service organizations of the last 50 years in terms of the people who lived it. $29.95
(+$2.06 MN sales tax +$6.00 S&H)
On February 5, 1924, mud and water from a nearby lake flooded the Milford Mine near Crosby, Minnesota, drowning 41 of the 48 men working underground. Thirty-three were married, and this left 88 children fatherless. The Milford Mine Disaster is a story filled with details undisclosed for almost 70 years. Publication was funded by a grant from the DeWitt and Caroline Van Evera Foundation. Research, writing, and editing were donated by the author, Berger Aulie.
$19.95 (+$1.37 MN sales tax +$2.50 S&H)
The front cover photo is a reproduction of one of Heinrich Knieff's watercolor paintings from 1885. It includes the home of Knieff's Indian neighbor, Kahwessie, and his family. The future Knieff home can be seen in the background, as Heinrich visualized that it would someday be, although it had not yet been completed at the time of his death.
"Over a century has passed since my grandfather came to Bay Lake to find a quiet place to finish rearing his family and to live out his years in peace," writes author, Al Knieff, "I have often wondered what he would think of his little homestead, if only he could see it as it is now."
$14.95 (+$1.03 MN sales tax +$3.00 S&H)
"Digging into the Past" Magazines
Past issues are available. The price is $3.00 for each issue; please add $.21 MN tax +$.30 for postage for each issue ordered.
The Emily Area
The Rural Schools
The Christmas Stories
Tourism in Cuyuna Country
Flight of Man High II
Lower Level, Unity Bank of Crosby, Minnesota
PO Box 272, Crosby, MN 56441
Office Phone: 218-545-1166
Phones: 218-546-5996 or 218-546-5233
E-mail: cchps@crosbyironton.net
Web Site: www.cuyunaheritage.org