Author: Aaron Shapiro
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515
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.
The Lure of the North Woods
Author: Aaron Shapiro
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515
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.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816688680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515
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.
The Lure of the North Woods
Author: Aaron Alex Shapiro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores how tourism in the North Woods including northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula evolved after the area was deindustrialized following the depletion of resources such as timber and ore in the early twentieth century. Discusses the revitalization of the North Woods due to improved transportation, travel promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives, and details how tourism in the North Woods transformed Americans' perspective on the outdoors. Includes black-and-white photographs and maps.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores how tourism in the North Woods including northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula evolved after the area was deindustrialized following the depletion of resources such as timber and ore in the early twentieth century. Discusses the revitalization of the North Woods due to improved transportation, travel promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives, and details how tourism in the North Woods transformed Americans' perspective on the outdoors. Includes black-and-white photographs and maps.
Lure of the Lone Trail
Author: Glen Sheppard
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Momentum Books LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
North Woods
Northwoods Fish Cookery
Author: Ron Berg
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452904788
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452904788
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
Author: Dillon Wallace
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : F. Revell
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : F. Revell
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In the North Woods of Maine
Author: Elmer Erwin Thomas
Publisher:
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Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Camping
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Pamphlets on Forestry in Minnesota
Author:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Lure of the North
Author: Harold Bindloss
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The Lure of the North" by Harold Bindloss Harold Edward Bindloss was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in western Canada and some in West Africa and England. In this book, readers are whisked away to Canada, a beautiful but harsh place that called to many young men and women who were on the hunt for adventure. Jim Thirlwell is an engineer at a struggling silver mine in northern Ontario. When one of his coworkers drowns in a canoe accident, Thirlwell begins a correspondence with the deceased's daughter Agatha who coaxes him into an adventure.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"The Lure of the North" by Harold Bindloss Harold Edward Bindloss was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in western Canada and some in West Africa and England. In this book, readers are whisked away to Canada, a beautiful but harsh place that called to many young men and women who were on the hunt for adventure. Jim Thirlwell is an engineer at a struggling silver mine in northern Ontario. When one of his coworkers drowns in a canoe accident, Thirlwell begins a correspondence with the deceased's daughter Agatha who coaxes him into an adventure.
The Saturday Evening Post
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description