Cooperative Commonwealth
Author: Steven James Keillor
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780873513777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 1940, Minnesota was known as one the most cooperative-minded states in the Union. More than 600 cooperative creameries, 150 township mutual fire insurance companies, hundreds of rural telephone associations, and 270 farmers' elevators were proof of the power of economic cooperation, and they made Minnesota into a "cooperative commonwealth."