Title A thousand pieces of paradise : landscape and property in the Kickapoo Valley / Lynne Heasley

Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations Series Wisconsin land and life Wisconsin land and life. Contents Introduction -- Prologue: weekend drive, Summer 2002 -- Part One: Landscape Succession -- Intended consequences: soil conservation -- A midwestern ranch -- What the real estate ads don't tell you -- Part Two: A Community on the Land -- Outsiders -- An Amish environment -- Part Three: Negotiating the Past and Future Landscape -- A dam for new times -- Deer unlimited -- (Re)enter the Ho-Chunk -- Conclusion: claims on paradise Summary "A Thousand Pieces of Paradise in an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set 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 Corps of Engineers dam project, and Native American efforts to assert longstanding land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the historical development of modern American property debates within ever-more-diverse rural landscapes and cultures."--Jacket Notes "Published in association with the Center for American Places." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Landscapes -- Wisconsin -- Kickapoo River Valley -- History Property -- Wisconsin -- Kickapoo River Valley -- History Land tenure -- Wisconsin -- Kickapoo River Valley -- History Land use -- Political aspects -- Wisconsin -- Kickapoo River Valley -- History Landscape protection -- Wisconsin -- Kickapoo River Valley -- History HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Ecology Geography Land tenure Land use -- Political aspects Landscape protection Landscapes Property SUBJECT Kickapoo River Valley (Wis.) -- History Kickapoo River Valley (Wis.) -- Geography Kickapoo River Valley (Wis.) -- Environmental conditions Subject Wisconsin -- Kickapoo River Valley Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Center for American Places. ISBN 9780299213930 0299213935 1283550334 9781283550338

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