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Minnesota Vikings: The Complete Illustrated History by Patrick Reusse

with photographs from the Star Tribune archives.


 Lavishly illustrated with photographs from the Star Tribune archives and featuring all the key moments, stats, and people behind the stories, Minnesota Vikings: The Complete Illustrated History is the ultimate celebration of an iconic football franchise.  It honors the great squads and all the legends and colorful characters who have donned the purple and gold, including Fran Tarkenton, the “Purple People Eaters,” Chuck Foreman, Ahmad Rashad, Randall McDaniel, John Randle, Cris Carter, Anthony Carter, Robert Smith, Randy Moss, and many others. It traces the history of the Vikings which started play as an expansion team in 1961, and within a decade, was among the NFL’s elite–-and most popular–-franchises. From the formative years under Norm Van Brocklin to the Super Bowl squads of Bud Grant, to the ups and downs under Jerry Burns and Dennis Green, it tells the story of Minnesota’s football team with its share of dramatic triumphs and heart-wrenching defeats. Through it all, the fans have come out in droves to cheer on the Vikes, whether in the cold winter air at Metropolitan Stadium or the hyper-loud surroundings of the Metrodome. 
Written by one the state’s most revered sports columnists, Patrick Reusse, Minnesota Vikings: The Complete Illustrated History is a book that no Vikings fan should be without.

About the Author:
Patrick Reusse has covered the Minnesota sports scene with passion for more than four decades and has written hundreds of columns about the Vikings. He has been a fixture at the Minneapolis Star Tribune since 1988 and a regular for KSTP radio since the early 1980s. Reusse lives in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

About Voyageur Press
Voyageur Press, a member of the Quayside Publishing Group, features books about nature and the environment, American heritage, country life, crafts, trains, boats, sports, collectibles and travel.

Minnesota Vikings: The Complete Illustrated History
Author: Patrick Reusse
Foreword: Bill Brown
Afterword: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
ISBN-13/10:    978-0-7603-3232-0, 0-7603-3232-0
Retail:        $30.00US - $32.95CAN - £17.99
Hardcover / 9.25 x 10.875 / 192 pages / 100 color & 100 b/w photographs   
Imprint:    Voyageur Press
Pub Date:    September 2008
Available in bookstores everywhere or through www.voyageurpress.com.