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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 resource. |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (312 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780816688654 |