Author: George Vrtis
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822989107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.
Author: Borchert
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145291088X
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages : 2242
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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.
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
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Category : Trails
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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