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The lure of the north woods : cultivating tourism in the upper midwest /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : A North Woods transformation
- A crop worth cultivating : creating the North Woods
- Tourists do not deplete our soil : interwar land conservation
- No dull days at Dunn's : labor and leisure in the North Woods
- Tell the world about your charms : the promotional appeal
- You've earned it - now enjoy it : playing in the postwar era
- The not so quiet crisis : tourism, wilderness, and regional development.