An advertisement for Powdermilk Biscuits (undated), one of A Prairie Home Companion’s many fictional sponsors.

Powdermilk Biscuits advertisement

An advertisement for Powdermilk Biscuits (undated), one of A Prairie Home Companion’s many fictional sponsors.

Power and heating plant, Carlos Avery Game Farm, 1938.

Power and heating plant, Carlos Avery Game Farm, 1938.

Power and heating plant, Carlos Avery Game Farm, 1938.

Workers finish connecting the upper and lower portions of a high-voltage power-line tower in Grant County, Minnesota, 1976–1978.

Power line in Grant County

Workers finish connecting the upper and lower portions of a high-voltage power-line tower in Grant County, Minnesota, 1976–1978.

Power line over Minnesota farmland, undated. Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project (OH 25). Oral History Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Power line over Minnesota farmland

Power line over Minnesota farmland, undated. Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project (OH 25). Oral History Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Color image of power lines in Hayward destroyed by the Halloween Blizzard, 1991. Photograph by Joey Mcleister, Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Power lines in Hayward destroyed by the Halloween Blizzard

Power lines in Hayward destroyed by the Halloween Blizzard, 1991. Photograph by Joey Mcleister, Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Powwow at Red Lake Reservation, 1949.

Powwow at Red Lake Reservation

Powwow at Red Lake Reservation. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, July 4, 1949.

Prairie Home Cemetery’s articles of incorporation

Prairie Home Cemetery’s articles of incorporation

The first page of Prairie Home Cemetery’s articles of incorporation, 1875. Prairie Home and Riverside Cemetery Association Records, Northwest Minnesota Historical Center, Moorhead.

Participants at a powwow organized by the Prairie Island Dakota community and held on July 13, 1969. Photographed by Monroe P. Killy.

Prairie Island Dakota Community powwow

Participants at a powwow organized by the Prairie Island Dakota community and held on July 13, 1969. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy.

Painting of the prairie just beyond the north side of Fort Snelling, ca.1847. Painting by Seth Eastman.

Prairie north of Fort Snelling

Prairie just beyond the north side of Fort Snelling, ca.1847. Painting by Seth Eastman.

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