Within our state's borders you'll find such exotic place names as Amor
and Darling, Fertile and Conception, Comfort and Happyland, Looneyville
and Nimrod, Flour Lake and the Diarrhoea River, Great Scott and Eureka,
Home and Nowhere, Moonshine and Whiskey Creek, Stringtown and Pig's Eye,
Snowball and North Pole, Embarrass and Kiester, Coin and Money Creek,
and Chickentown and Bull Moose. But how did these places get such
unusual names? Wonder no longer as author Michael Fedo relates the
curious and prosaic ways in which a place gets named.
Place names tell a rich history of how our state was settled. This
compact guide presents the fascinating stories behind over 1,200
Minnesota place names. Included are all the names you'd
expect--counties, larger towns and cities, major lakes and rivers--as
well as the curious and odd. Culled from over 20,000 entries in the
classic work Minnesota Place Names by Warren Upham, this concise guide
is the perfect companion for anyone who travels the highways and
waterways of the North Star state.