Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country PUB198803 ISBN10: 047169276X

ISBN10: 047169276X

who Bishop sent to prison ten years past

the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland

ask an unprepared defendant who stands trial

and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic

Making Marriage: Husbands, Wives, and the American State in Dakota and Ojibwe Country PUB198803 ISBN10: 047169276XThe debate over the meaning of marriage in the United States and specifically in Minnesota is not a recent development. From 1820 to 1845, when the first significant numbers of Americans arrived in the region now called Minnesota, they carried the belief that good government and an orderly household went hand in hand. The territorial, state, and federal governments of the United States were built upon a particular vision of civic responsibility: that