Author: Harriet Theresa Comstock
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511628334
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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"Joyce of the North Woods" from Harriet Theresa Comstock. American novelist and author of children's books (1860-1925).
Author: Harriet Theresa Comstock
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Category : Lumber camps
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Aaron Shapiro
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
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In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today. Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.
Author: Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1629796735
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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World War II looms over the U.S. while fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe struggles with anger and identity after his father's death—“a must-have for historical fiction collections” (School Library Journal) As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. He struggles with school and with anger—at his late father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himself—as he desperately tries to find his own aim in life. But he finds relief escaping to the quiet of the nearby woods and tinkering with cars, something he learned from his pop. And a fatherly neighbor provides much-needed guidance. This heartfelt and inspiring novel about a boy learning to accept the past and create his own future also includes an author's note and bibliography.
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Author: Walter Hines Page
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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A history of our time.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1471
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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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