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Curt Brown

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Phone: 612-673-4767

In addition to covering regional issues and writing profiles, Curt contributes to the “Escape Artists” travel blog and writes bi-weekly Sunday “My Minnesota” mini-profiles, offering a sense-of-place look at intriguing Minnesotans.
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Reaching back to touch the past

A century and a half after the U.S.-Dakota War, Harry Lamson, an 82-year-old retired state trooper, sits in a cottage on the shores of Lake Superior, cradling a double-barreled, muzzle-loading gun with a cracked stock.

Updated: August 16, 2012, - 06:32 PM

In Little Crow's wake, horrors for the Dakota

The defeated Dakota endure a forced march, angry mobs and calls for their extermination. More than 300 men are sentenced to hang.

Updated: August 16, 2012, - 04:13 PM

In Little Crow's wake, horrors for the Dakota

The defeated Dakota endure a forced march, angry mobs and calls for their extermination. More than 300 men are sentenced to hang.

Updated: August 16, 2012, - 04:13 PM

A man lost in history

The darkest chapter in Minnesota's past, through the rise and fall of one Dakota leader.

Updated: August 15, 2012, - 08:40 PM

Born to lead

In the final years of traditional Dakota life in Minnesota, Little Crow's mother prepared him to lead his people.

Updated: August 15, 2012, - 08:39 PM

Little Crow: 'When men are hungry, they help themselves'

With his people starving and treaty payments too late to help, Little Crow is pushed toward war. A bloody confrontation lights the fuse.

Updated: August 15, 2012, - 08:39 PM

Little Crow: Terror spreads across the prairie

Little Crow's men hand white leaders one humiliation after another, killing hundreds of settlers and soldiers. But his control of the war begins to slip.

Updated: August 15, 2012, - 08:38 PM

Little Crow: Terror spreads across the prairie

Little Crow's men hand white leaders one humiliation after another, killing hundreds of settlers and soldiers. But his control of the war begins to slip.

Updated: August 14, 2012, - 05:27 PM