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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Wisconsin Tourism Today
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Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Traveler's Guide to Wisconsin State Parks and Forests
Author: Don Davenport
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A History of Wisconsin Highway Development, 1945-1985
Author: George Bechtel
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Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Highway law
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Vertical File Service Catalog
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Category : Filing systems
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Category : Filing systems
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
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Pages : 1578
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The Lure of the North Woods
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.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
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.