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M Is For Minnesota

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...to live or to visit. The artwork and accompanying paragraphsclearly define what Minnesota is all about. Written for young people,it's a great gift for grownups as well. No wonder it's popular at da U.

I picked this book up to flip through while visiting the gift shop of an Iron Ore mine in MN this past week. ""I" is for ironrange" is not altogether accurate. It states that the Rust Hull open pit site in Hibbing was once the largest open pit in the world, measuring 2 miles X 3 miles in size, but is now filled in by water and is no longer active. Not so. I was at the very active Rust Hull site that very morning and watched the monster dumper trucks, carrying up to 250 tons each of rock, roll past my lookout point every 30-45 seconds. Part of the mine IS filled in with water, but according to my nephew, who lives in Hibbing just a few blocks from this site, and works for MinnTac, another mining company, he tells me it is still the world's largest, measuring 3 miles X by 5 miles in size.

I'm not sure about the other information in this book, but if this page is not accurate, I certainly wouldn't trust it to base a school history project on any of it's pages.

My 9-year-old daughter and I really enjoyed reading this in preparation for our move to Minnesota. I would not, however, recommend buying it for your Kindle as the beautiful, bright artwork loses something in black and white.