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Big Marsh : The Story of a Lost Landscape /
"An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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St. Paul, MN :
Minnesota Historical Society Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The lay of the land. Hollandale : an introduction ; Freeborn County : home, but no biome ; Looking for the Big Marsh
- Part II. Life on the Big Marsh. No empty landscape ; The grid that turned land to a commodity ; Homing on the Marsh : the Speers ; The trip from Otranto revisited ; Claiming the high ground : the Ostranders ; Hazards ; What counts as a lake? ; The evolution of the drainage ditch ; A watershed year : 1877 ; A new home on the prairie : a speculation ; Fire on the Marsh
- Part III. The big ditch. The alleged conniver : Putnam Dana McMillan ; The first drainage ; The middle man : William A. Morin ; Robert Speer travels through time ; Eighteen yoke of oxen ; "The Great Ricelawn Ranch" ; A change of hands bodes a change of lands ; What's black and white and grazes all over? ; The second try ; New man about town : John Felix Dryden Meighen ; The people protest ; How to read a flying bundle of twine ; A lone voice for the environment : Fred McCall ; Counterarguments ; The Moscow farm prospers ; Meighen in court and courting ; The winning strategy ; Rice Lake and the Big Marsh go down the drain ; The Swamp Angel plays Cupid ; The new model farmer ; The victor's history ; The mysterious fall of Bryant Barber and other endings
- Part IV. Restoration and restitution. From booty to beauty ; Wo Wacintanka ; For the birds.