Minnesota’s “Gopher Gunners” get a huge hero’s welcome as they march down Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis upon returning home, May 8, 1919. The regiment experienced a similar tumultous welcome earlier the same day in St. Paul.

A group of artillerymen from the 151st, “somewhere in France,” 1918.

A First Minnesota Field Artillery gun crew conducts service practice with a M1905 3-inch field gun near Port Isabel, Texas, on the Gulf Coast, September 1916. They had been called up with the rest of the Minnesota National Guard to patrol the Mexican border along the Rio Grande in south Texas. Photo by Charles Green. Used with the permission of the Minnesota Military Museum, Camp Ripley.

Battery B of Minneapolis, First Battalion of Artillery, fires into Lake Pepin while at Camp Lakeview, the Minnesota National Guard’s summer training camp near Lake City in 1907. The artillery usually trained elsewhere in the summer due to Camp Lakeview’s small size. Photo by B. R. Suyer.

Sgt. Al Pray, holding his twin daughters, poses with fellow gunners of the First Battalion of Artillery during Visitors Day at Camp Lakeview, 1897.

Gathering of Minnesota Farmer-Labor politicians at the summer home of Thomas Frankson; Shipstead is standing, fifth from left.

Meeting of the America First Committee at the Minneapolis Auditorium, May 10, 1941; Shipstead is second from left.

Pallbearers at Floyd B. Olson’s funeral, Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, August 26, 1936; Shipstead is second from right.

Attendees at a luncheon hosted by E. H. Hobe, Bald Eagle Lake; Shipstead is in the front row, second from left.