Maka Waste Wiŋ (Good Earth Woman, also called Susan Windgrow, left) and Red Wing ethnologist Frances Densmore (right) examine a pair of moccasins made by Maka Waste Wiŋ, a Dakota artist and elder, ca.1930.
In June 1922, the Minneapolis Public Library book wagon made its first trip from Minneapolis to Excelsior, a small village on Lake Minnetonka. Riding aboard the book wagon was Gratia Countryman, the library system's visionary director.