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Book Around the Shores of Lake Superior

Download or read book Around the Shores of Lake Superior written by Margaret Beattie Bogue and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rugged shoreline and deep, cold waters, Lake Superior offers exciting opportunities for travel, exploration, and enjoyment. From the Grand Sable Dunes and Apostle Islands of the south shore to mountain-studded St. Ignace Island and majestic Thunder Cape on the north, the lake is deeply ingrained in North America’s cultural and environmental heritage. Around the Shores of Lake Superioris an ideal trip planner and a unique guide to the region. As author Margaret Beattie Bogue follows the Lake Superior shoreline clockwise through Minnesota, Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin, she evokes the richness of local history and highlights hundreds of landmarks and points of interest that surround the lake. Grand Portage, Fort William Historical Park, the Agawa Canyon Pictographs, Isle Royale, the Pictured Rocks, and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshores are just a few of the many sites featured, each with a short descriptive history, directions, and contact information. In keeping with the guide’s easy-to-follow organization, all sites are keyed to a foldout map pocketed in the book’s back cover. This book also includes illuminating essays that give context to the natural and human history of the region—the Ojibwe presence, French exploration, industry on and around the lake, and the impact of this history on the natural environment. With more than 200 color and black-and-white images, this updated and greatly expanded Second Edition will enrich the appreciation of the region for both visitors and residents of the upper Great Lakes. Winner, Best Midwest Regional Interest Book, Midwest Book Awards Winner, Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association for State and Local History Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Regional Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association

Book Around the Shores of Lake Michigan

Download or read book Around the Shores of Lake Michigan written by Margaret Beattie Bogue and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 1985 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superbly organized guide to the 1,600-mile shoreline of Lake Michigan describes 182 historical sites and points of interest. Generously illustrated, it includes historical sketches, keys to recreation, and a large fold-out planner map.

Book Along the Bowstring  Or South Shore of Lake Superior

Download or read book Along the Bowstring Or South Shore of Lake Superior written by Julian Ralph and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amply-illustrated promotional guidebook, issued by the General Passenger Department of the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway, describes in great detail the sights and recreational opportunities afforded visitors along Lake Superior's South Shore. The author follows the route from Sault Ste. Marie west to Duluth, including Marquette, Presque Isle and Macinac as well as other major stopover points, providing much local and geological history along the way. In words and pictures, the book depicts picturesque landmarks and scenic landscapes, mining, manufacturing, logging operations, fishing, hunting, and other wilderness activities, with some attention to the region's Indian groups.

Book Wisconsin s Lake Superior Shoreline

Download or read book Wisconsin s Lake Superior Shoreline written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Lakes Water Wars

Download or read book The Great Lakes Water Wars written by Peter Annin and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

Book Our Fourth Shore

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. National Park Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Our Fourth Shore written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summer on the Shores of Lake Superior

Download or read book Summer on the Shores of Lake Superior written by James Barker and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lake Superior Region Recreational Potential

Download or read book The Lake Superior Region Recreational Potential written by Isadore Victor Fine and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impermanence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sue Leaf
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2024-01-09
  • ISBN : 1452970440
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Impermanence written by Sue Leaf and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior’s South Shore Lake Superior’s South Shore is as malleable as it is enduring, its red sandstone cliffs, clay bluffs, and golden sand beaches reshaped by winds and water from season to season—and sometimes from one hour to the next. Generations of people have inhabited the South Shore, harvesting the forests and fish, mining copper, altering the land for pleasure and profit, for better or worse. In Impermanence, author Sue Leaf explores the natural and human histories that make the South Shore what it is, from the gritty port city of Superior, Wisconsin, to the shipping locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. For Leaf, what began as a bicycling adventure on the coast of Lake Superior in 1977 turned into a lifelong connection with the area, and her experience, not least as owner of a rustic cabin on a rapidly eroding lakeside cliff, imbues these essays with a passionate sense of place and an abiding curiosity about its past and precarious future. As waves slowly consume the shoreline where her family has spent countless summers, Leaf is forced to confront the complexity of loving a place that all too quickly is being reclaimed by the great lake. Impermanence is a journey through the South Shore’s story, from the early days of the Anishinaabe and fur traders through the heyday of commercial fishing, lumber camps, and copper mining on the Keweenaw Peninsula to the awakening of the Northland to the perils and consequences of plundering its natural splendor. Noting the geological, ecological, and cultural features of each stop on her tour along the South Shore, Leaf writes about the restoration of the heavily touristed Apostle Islands National Lakeshore to its pristine conditions, even as Lake Superior maintains its allure for ice fishers, kayakers, and long-distance swimmers. She describes efforts to protect the endangered piping plover and to preserve the diverse sand dunes on the Michigan coast, and she observes the slough that supports rare intact wild rice beds central to Anishinaabe culture. Part memoir, part travelogue, part natural and cultural history, Leaf’s love letter to Lake Superior’s South Shore is an invitation to see this liminal world in all its seasons and guises, to appreciate its ageless, ever-changing wonders and intimate charms.

Book Lake Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erika G. Alin
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1452906149
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Lake Effect written by Erika G. Alin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lake Effects, writer Erika Alin explores both the natural and the human landscapes of Lake Superior, meditating on the rich geological, historical, and cultural events that have shaped the region. She begins her journey around Superior at the St. Louis River near Duluth and continues along the shores of the lake to Temperance River State Park, Grand Marais's Artist's Point, and Lake Superior Provincial Park. Following the Michigan and Wisconsin coasts, Alin visits the Keweenaw Peninsula, the Porcupine Mountains, and Chequamegon Bay before concluding at the south shore's Brule River. Inspired by these and other places on the lake, Alin's essays delve into such diverse topics as the origins of river names, early Native American settlement, the exploits of seventeenth-century French-Canadian voyageurs, the breeding habits of ring-billed gulls, the contributions of women botanists, Canada's Group of Seven painters, and aboriginal rock art.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shining Big Sea Water

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  • Author : Norman K. Risjord
  • Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
  • Release : 2009-06-25
  • ISBN : 0873517512
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Shining Big Sea Water written by Norman K. Risjord and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, fast-paced history of Lake Superior, from the time of the glaciers to the present, complemented by handy travelers' tips for historic destinations.

Book Wisconsin Coastal History Trails

Download or read book Wisconsin Coastal History Trails written by James Purinton and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: