Hanford L. Gordon papers. 1868-1921.

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Hanford L. Gordon papers. 1868-1921.

1868-1921

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Contains correspondence regarding poetry written by Gordon, the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, Minnesota politics in 1868 and 1914, and the presidential campaign of 1912; essays and letters by Gordon on suffrage in Minnesota (1868), on the Hawaiian question (1897), on the Panama Canal tolls controversy (1914), on World War I (1915), and on the controversy about the gilded horses on the Minnesota Capitol; autobiographical notes giving information on legal practice and frontier social conditions in Minnesota in the 1860s; and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings referring to Gordon's political and literary activities.

1.0 cubic foot (1 box, including 3 volumes).

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Minnesota Historical Society

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