Keeper of the Wild

Keeper of the Wild PDF Author: Joe Paddock
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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The first-ever biography of wilderness preservationist Ernest Oberholtzer, environmental pioneer, explorer, and caretaker of Minnesota and Ontario's boundary waters region.

Keeper of the Wild

Keeper of the Wild PDF Author: Joe Paddock
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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The first-ever biography of wilderness preservationist Ernest Oberholtzer, environmental pioneer, explorer, and caretaker of Minnesota and Ontario's boundary waters region.

The World

The World PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Ice-Out

Ice-Out PDF Author: Mary Casanova
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452953007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Walking on thin ice: on Rainy Lake, in the northern reaches of Minnesota, it’s more than a saying. And for Owen Jensen, nineteen and suddenly responsible for keeping his mother and five brothers alive, the ice is thin indeed. Ice-Out returns to the frigid and often brutal Prohibition-era borderland of Mary Casanova’s beloved novel Frozen, and to the characters who made it a favorite among readers of all ages. Owen, smitten with Frozen’s Sadie Rose, is struggling to make something of himself at a time when no one seems to hold the moral high ground. Bootlegging is rife, corruption is rampant, and lumber barons run roughshod over the people and the land. As hard as things seem when his father dies, stranding his impoverished family, they get considerably tougher—and more complicated—when Owen gets caught up in the suspicious deaths of a sheriff and deputy on the border. Inspired by real events in early 1920s Minnesota, and by Mary Casanova’s own family history, Ice-Out is at once a story of young romance against terrible odds and true grit on the border between license and responsibility, rich and poor, and right and wrong in early twentieth-century America.

Field and Stream

Field and Stream PDF Author:
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1102

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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country PDF Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062309978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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For more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to the National Book Award-winning The Round House, Erdrich’s lyrical skill and emotional assurance have earned her a place alongside William Faulkner and Willa Cather as an author deeply rooted in the American landscape. In Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, Erdrich takes us on an illuminating tour through the terrain her ancestors have inhabited for centuries: the lakes and islands of southern Ontario. Summoning to life the Ojibwe's sacred spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, she considers the many ways in which her tribe—whose name derives from the word ozhibii'ige, "to write"—have influenced her. Her journey links ancient stone paintings with a magical island where a bookish recluse built an extraordinary library, and she reveals how both have transformed her. A blend of history, mythology, and memoir, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country is an enchanting meditation on modern life, natural splendor, and the ancient spirituality and creativity of Erdrich's native homeland—a long, elemental tradition of storytelling that is in her blood.

Toward Magnetic North

Toward Magnetic North PDF Author:
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Ernest Carl Oberholtzer was a central figure in the struggle to preserve the wilderness areas of the Minnesota-Ontario border, as well as an important advocate for the creation of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Toward Magnetic North is the story of Ernest Oberholtzer and Billy Magee's exploration of the then uncharted area of Saskatchewan up to Hudson Bay and into Manitoba. Oberholtzer's photos and journal entries capture the spirit of the wild places that he loved and admired.

Rainy Lake

Rainy Lake PDF Author: Mary François Rockcastle
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555972424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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In Rainy Lake, author Mary Rockcastle invites the reader to savor the sights, sounds, and smells of summer at her parents' lopsided lakefront cabin during the 1960s. From the landscape of her memory, Danielle Fillian paints a sensitive and wise family portrait of summers filled with fly-fishing, swimming, water-skiing, new friendships, and a deepening first love. But with the intrusion of the Vietnam War and the rumblings of the civil rights movement growing steadily nearer, this sheltered vacation community is forced to acknowledge the harsh realities of the wider world.

Rainy Lake House

Rainy Lake House PDF Author: Theodore Catton
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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"Exiles in Indian Country weaves together the biographies of three men who cast their fortunes with the Western fur trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. John Tanner was a 'white Indian' who was taken captive and raised by Ottawa, and lived among the Ottawa and Ojibwa for thirty years, hunting across the northern forests and plains of present-day Ontario, Manitoba, and northern Minnesota. Dr. John McLoughlin fled the law in Quebec at the age of eighteen to work for the Hudson's Bay Company in the Lake Superior region during its two decades of war with the North West Company. Major Stephen H. Long explored the northern borderlands in a time when the United States aimed to take over British-Indian trade in its new western territories. The three men met at the HBC's Rainy Lake House near the Boundary Waters in 1823 after Tanner was badly wounded while trying to take his daughters out of Indian country, to save them from being raped by the white traders. Foregrounding this incident, Theodore Catton examines the events leading up to this fateful encounter through a Rashomon-like tale about the British-American-Indian frontier. Through these three colliding vantage points, the book describes the world of the fur trade: American, British, and Indian; imperial, capital, and labor; explorer, trader, and hunter. In its competing viewpoints, Exiles in Indian Country deftly crafts one grand narrative out of three and reveals the perilous lives of the white adventurers and their Indian families who lived on the fringe--truly the hands of empire"--Provided by publisher.

Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture and Food

Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture and Food PDF Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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Consists of individuals reports of each of the branches of the department.

Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food

Annual Report of the Minister of Agriculture and Food PDF Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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