Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Various City Officers of the City of Minneapolis, for the Year 1891 The aldermen shall each hold office for the term of four (4) years from and after the first (let) Monday in January next following his election. Provided that the aldermen who were elected at the general election held in November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight (1888) and qualified under such election, shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which they were elected. At the general election to be held in November, one thousand eight hundred and ninety and at each general election held every two years thereafter, there shall be elected one (1) alderman from each ward, to serve for the term of four (4) years from the first (let) Monday in J anu ary, next following his election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.