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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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Autor principal: Shapiro, Aaron (Autor, Verfasser)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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