Author: Dale Roger Fatzinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lead industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Historical Geography of Lead and Zinc Mining in Southwest Wisconsin, 1820-1920
Author: Dale Roger Fatzinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lead industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lead industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Wisconsin Land and Life
Author: Robert Clifford Ostergren
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.
Historical Geography Newsletter
Author:
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Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Historical Geography
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Mineral and Energy Production in a Geographic Context
Author: Jerry E. Green
Publisher:
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Order Upon the Land
Author: Hildegard Binder Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Proposes to discuss not only the survey's possible European antecedents but also to study its impact on the settlement landscape of the Upper Mississippi Hill Country.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Proposes to discuss not only the survey's possible European antecedents but also to study its impact on the settlement landscape of the Upper Mississippi Hill Country.
The Industrial Revolution in the Upper Illinois Valley
Author: Michael P. Conzen
Publisher: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, Research Papers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: University of Chicago, Committee on Geographical Studies, Research Papers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Planning Report
Author:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Geography and geology
Author: Xerox University Microfilms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description