Tyler N. Taylor

Tyler Taylor is a Gale Fellow at the Minnesota Historical Society. Her research examines relationships between Native American and immigrant communities in and around Minnesota in the nineteenth century. Dr. Taylor holds a PhD in American Studies from the College of William & Mary.

The complicated legacy of Knute Nelson, Minnesota’s first foreign-born governor

By Tyler N. Taylor

Nov. 2, 2020

The image of himself that Nelson cultivated — both fully Norwegian and fully American, a promoter of Norewegians as a desirable immigrant population — is reflected in the history of the Knute Nelson Memorial.