Author: Nate Hoogeveen
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599702
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Newly revised guide to the best paddling trips in Iowa, contains trip ideas, and environmental, geological, and historic points of interest.
Paddling Iowa
Author: Nate Hoogeveen
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599702
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Newly revised guide to the best paddling trips in Iowa, contains trip ideas, and environmental, geological, and historic points of interest.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599702
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Newly revised guide to the best paddling trips in Iowa, contains trip ideas, and environmental, geological, and historic points of interest.
Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River
Author: Curtis C. & Elizabeth M. Roseman & Roseman
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty offering many promises for additional development. One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of “excursions,” the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi. Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be of interest to tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, railroad and steamboat history buffs, as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists; politicians; academics, writers and artists; business and industry leaders; and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty offering many promises for additional development. One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of “excursions,” the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi. Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be of interest to tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, railroad and steamboat history buffs, as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.
Oneota Sites on the Upper Iowa River
Author: Mildred Mott Wedel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780943414386
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780943414386
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Upper Mississippi River Navigation Charts
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Rock Island District
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Oneota Flow
Author: David S. Faldet
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298368
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Whether profiling the chief of the last hunter-gatherers on the river, an early settler witnessing her first prairie fire and a modern wildlife biologist using fire to manage prairies, the manager of the Granger Farmer’s Co-op Creamery, or a landowner whose bottomlands are continually eaten away by floods, Faldet steadily develops the central idea that people are walking tributaries of the river basin in which they make their homes. Faldet moves through the history of life along the now-polluted Upper Iowa, always focusing on the ways people depend on the river, the environment, and the resources of the region. He blends contemporary conversations, readings from the historical record, environmental research, and personal experience to show us that the health of the river is best guaranteed by maintaining the biological communities that nurture it. In return, taking care of the Upper Iowa is the best way to take care of our future.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298368
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Whether profiling the chief of the last hunter-gatherers on the river, an early settler witnessing her first prairie fire and a modern wildlife biologist using fire to manage prairies, the manager of the Granger Farmer’s Co-op Creamery, or a landowner whose bottomlands are continually eaten away by floods, Faldet steadily develops the central idea that people are walking tributaries of the river basin in which they make their homes. Faldet moves through the history of life along the now-polluted Upper Iowa, always focusing on the ways people depend on the river, the environment, and the resources of the region. He blends contemporary conversations, readings from the historical record, environmental research, and personal experience to show us that the health of the river is best guaranteed by maintaining the biological communities that nurture it. In return, taking care of the Upper Iowa is the best way to take care of our future.
Twelve Millennia
Author: James L Theler
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"James Theler and Robert Boszhardt provide an overview of the Driftless region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley - roughly from Dubuque, Iowa, to Red Wing, Minnesota, but framed within a somewhat larger area extending from the Rock Island Rapids at the modern Moline-Rock Island area to the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis-St. Paul. The book concludes with useful catalogs of the animal remains and rock art found in the valley as well as a list of archaeological sites and museums to visit."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587294397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"James Theler and Robert Boszhardt provide an overview of the Driftless region of the Upper Mississippi River Valley - roughly from Dubuque, Iowa, to Red Wing, Minnesota, but framed within a somewhat larger area extending from the Rock Island Rapids at the modern Moline-Rock Island area to the Falls of St. Anthony at Minneapolis-St. Paul. The book concludes with useful catalogs of the animal remains and rock art found in the valley as well as a list of archaeological sites and museums to visit."--BOOK JACKET.
Paddling Southern Wisconsin
Author: Mike Svob
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599771
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Paddling Southern Wisconsin will guide you down some of the state's most alluring rivers, immersing you in its shifting landscape and infinite beauty.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599771
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Paddling Southern Wisconsin will guide you down some of the state's most alluring rivers, immersing you in its shifting landscape and infinite beauty.
History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties, Iowa
Author: W. E. Alexander
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allamakee County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allamakee County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota
Author: Thomas F. Waters
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902975
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452902975
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Flora of Winneshiek County
Author: Bohumil Shimek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description