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Thousand Pieces of Paradise
Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley
Inbunden, 2005
403 kr
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This is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems in one of Wisconsin's most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. While examining the national war on soil erosion in the 1930s, a controversial real estate development scheme, Amish land settlement, a U.S. Army …
Mind of Her Own
Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982
Inbunden, 2006
427 kr
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A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888 - 1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. The eldest child of William Duncan Connor, a major figure in …
Buried Indians
Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town
Av Laurie Hovell McMillin, Richard L. Knight m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
284 kr
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In ""Buried Indians"", Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and …
Door County's Emerald Treasure
A History of Peninsula State Park
Häftad, 2006
297 kr
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With its magnificent forests, bluffs, and shoreline and its breathtaking views of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Door County's Peninsula State Park is one of the Midwest's most popular attractions. Established in 1909, it was Wisconsin's second state park and a key to pioneering efforts to build a …
Spirits of Earth
The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
Av University of Wisconsin Press, Ray B. Browne m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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Between A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds - including the world's largest known bird effigy - at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. These huge earthworks, …
North Woods River
The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History
Av Eileen McMahon, Theodore,J. Karamanski
Häftad, 2009
275 kr
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This book presents the history of a beautiful and historic National Scenic Riverway. The St. Croix River, the free-flowing boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota, is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. The area's first recorded human inhabitants were the Dakota Indians, whose lands …
Condos in the Woods
The Growth of Seasonal and Retirement Homes in Northern Wisconsin
Av Rebecca L. Schewe, Donald R. Field m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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Living a Land Ethic
A History of Cooperative Conservation on the Leopold Memorial Reserve
Häftad, 2014
225 kr
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In 1935, in the midst of relentless drought, Aldo Leopold purchased an abandoned farm along the Wisconsin River near Baraboo, Wisconsin. An old chicken coop, later to become famous as the Leopold “Shack,” was the property’s only intact structure. The Leopold family embraced this spent farm as a new …
Buried Indians
Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town
Inbunden, 2006
699 kr
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In ""Buried Indians"", Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and …
Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream
Establishing the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Häftad, 2011
273 kr
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The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is a breathtakingly beautiful archipelago of twenty-two islands in Lake Superior, just off the tip of northern Wisconsin. For years, the national park has been a favorite destination for tourists and locals alike, but the remarkable story behind its creation …
