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Author Shapiro, Aaron (Aaron Alex)

Title The lure of the north woods : cultivating tourism in the upper midwest / Aaron Shapiro
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
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Contents 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
Summary 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 a playground. 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 resources. In this book, the author describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Tourism -- Middle West -- History
Outdoor recreation -- Middle West -- History
Outdoor life -- Middle West -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
Manners and customs
Outdoor life
Outdoor recreation
Tourism
Erholung
Freizeit
Tourismus
Turism -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
SUBJECT Middle West -- Social life and customs
Subject Middle West
Mittlerer Westen
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816688654
0816688656
9781452946764
1452946760
Other Titles Cultivating tourism in the upper midwest