Description |
1 online resource |
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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Print version record |
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Tourism -- Middle West -- History
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Outdoor recreation -- Middle West -- History
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Outdoor life -- Middle West -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
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Manners and customs
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Outdoor life
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Outdoor recreation
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Tourism
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Erholung
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Freizeit
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Tourismus
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Turism -- historia -- Förenta staterna.
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Middle West -- Social life and customs
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Middle West
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Mittlerer Westen
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816688654 |
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0816688656 |
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9781452946764 |
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1452946760 |
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