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Pionerd is a daily Minnesota history podcast. Every day, one story drawn from the people, places, and moments that shaped the state we call home. From the Iron Range to the Mississippi headwaters, from the Twin Cities to the small towns most maps forget, Minnesota's history is richer and stranger than most people realize. Join us every day and find out what happened here.
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every 2 days
Average audio length:
12 minutes
English
United States
113 episodes
since April 28, 2026
episodic
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In October 1918, as the second wave of the Spanish Influenza pandemic swept across Minnesota, Health Department officials in Minneapolis enacted one of the nation’s earliest and most decisive public health shutdowns. As streetcars cleared and public gatherings were banned, a fierce…
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: On October 8, 1956, 75,000 visitors flooded into Edina, Minnesota, to step through the glass doors of Southdale Center, the world’s very first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping mall. Conceived by Viennese refugee architect Victor Gruen and funded by department store riva…
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On the evening of October 7, 1910, a terrifying hurricane of fire swept across the Rainy River basin, leveling the twin border towns of Baudette and Spooner in under two hours. Driven by a severe regional drought, miles of discarded logging slash, and a tragic political budget cut…
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At 1:00 AM on Saturday, October 6, 1917, Twin Cities transit workers walked off the job, shutting down 450 miles of track and plunging Minneapolis and St. Paul into a bitter, high-stakes battle. They worked 10 to 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week, with no overtime pay or guaranteed da…
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On October 2, 1924, WCCO Radio went live across the Upper Midwest, transforming an unproven 500-watt hotel experiment into a 50,000-watt clear-channel utility that redefined regional identity. Born from the bankruptcy of WLAG, flour milling giant Washburn-Crosby took a high-stakes…
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 30, 1889, Saint Marys Hospital opened its doors in Rochester, Minnesota, equipped with just 27 beds and an unlikely partnership forged over a prairie handshake. Six years earlier, a catastrophic F4 tornado had devastated the small agricultural town, prompting Catholic…
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 29, 1983, a phony land inquiry lured two small-town bankers to an abandoned ten-acre farmstead outside Ruthton, Minnesota. Within minutes of their arrival, a high-powered rifle ambush left Buffalo Ridge State Bank president Rudy Blythe and loan officer Toby Thulin dea…
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 24, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in a second-floor apartment at 481 Laurel Avenue in St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood, entering a home shadowed by the tragic loss of two young sisters to scarlet fever just months prior. Growing up on the physical …
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 23, 1862, six weeks of devastating warfare across the Minnesota River Valley culminated along the tallgrass banks of Lone Tree Lake. What began as an unauthorized foraging trip for wild potatoes quickly erupted into an intense, two-hour firefight that would forever al…
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On September 22, 1968, a modest crowd of 11,340 gathered at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington to watch Minnesota Twins utility star César "Pepi" Tovar take the field with nine different gloves. Turned into a multi-position attraction by owner Calvin Griffith to sell end-of-seaso…
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