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Book Laurentian Divide

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Stonich
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2018-09-18
  • ISBN : 145295786X
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Laurentian Divide written by Sarah Stonich and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story Poignant portrayals of life on the edge in northern Minnesota border country, from the best-selling author of These Granite Islands and Vacationland Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different this year is what’s missing: Rauri Paar, the last private landowner in the Reserve, whose annual emergence from his remote iced-in islands marks the beginning of spring and the promise of a kinder season. The town’s residents gather at the local diner and, amid talk of spring weather, the latest gossip, roadkill, and the daily special, take bets on when Rauri will appear—or imagine what happened to him during the long and brutal winter. Retired union miner and widower Alpo Lahti is about to wed the diner’s charming and lively waitress, Sissy Pavola, but, with Rauri still unaccounted for, celebration seems premature. Alpo’s son Pete struggles to find his straight and narrow, then struggles to stay on it, and even Sissy might be having second thoughts. Weaving in and out of each other’s reach, trying hard to do their best (all the while wondering what that might be), the residents of this remote town in all their sweetness and sorrow remind us once more of the inescapable lurches of the heart and unexpected turns of our human comedy.

Book Glacial Geology of the Laurentian Divide Area  St  Louis and Lake Counties  Minnesota

Download or read book Glacial Geology of the Laurentian Divide Area St Louis and Lake Counties Minnesota written by Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene. Field Conference and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring America s Highways

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Heim
  • Publisher : Exploring America's Highway
  • Release : 2004-03
  • ISBN : 9780974435817
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Exploring America s Highways written by Michael Heim and published by Exploring America's Highway. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you?re planning a trip, it?s relatively easy to find the fastest route by visiting Yahoo or MapQuest internet web sites or ? if you?re hopelessly old-fashioned- unfolding a map. But how do you choose the most interesting route, and create a trip that is more than just a blur of mile markers and exit signs? Exploring America?s Highways: Wisconsin Trip Trivia may have the answer!Exploring America?s Highways: Wisconsin Trip Trivia provides travelers a guided tour along specific routes throughout the state. Travelers will obtain a wide range of interesting information along the highway including: ? Place Name? Historical Markers? Local Landmarks? Prominent People? Industry and Inventions? Geological? General TriviaDid you know that: ? Jesse James and his gang were chased out of Northfield trying to rob their first bank? ? The first woman ever to reach the North Pole came from Ely, or Mountain Lake was originally named Midway because it was midway between the railroad line that travels from St. Paul to Sioux City, Iowa. These are just a few of the fun things revealed in this book.There is no reason anybody needs to dread long hours of driving time anyway. Just find your route (highlighted in the table of contents) and read along, city by city. It?s that simple.

Book Vacationland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Stonich
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9780816687664
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Vacationland written by Sarah Stonich and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge--only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place--timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience--and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.

Book Inland Steel Proposed Taconite Operation  St  Louis County

Download or read book Inland Steel Proposed Taconite Operation St Louis County written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Environmental Impact Statement  Superior National Forest

Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Statement Superior National Forest written by United States. Forest Service. Eastern Region and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert H. Mohlenbrock
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2006-03-15
  • ISBN : 0520930541
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book This Land written by Robert H. Mohlenbrock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part armchair travelogue, part guide book, this projected three-volume series—divided into the western, central, and eastern United States—will introduce readers to all 155 national forests across the country. This Land is the only comprehensive field guide that describes the natural features, wildernesses, scenic drives, campgrounds, and hiking trails of our national forests, many of which—while little known and sparsely visited—boast features as spectacular as those found in our national parks and monuments. Each entry includes logistical information about size and location, facilities, attractions, and associated wilderness areas. For about half of the forests, Robert H. Mohlenbrock has provided sidebars on the biological or geological highlights, drawn from the "This Land" column that he has written for Natural History magazine since 1984. Superbly illustrated with color photographs, botanical drawings, and maps, this book is loaded with information, clearly written, and easy to use. This volume covers national forests in: Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming

Book U S  Geological Survey Professional Paper

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geological Survey Water supply Paper

Download or read book Geological Survey Water supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Scenic Highways   Byways

Download or read book Guide to Scenic Highways Byways written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.

Book Mining the Heartland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erik Kojola
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2023-06-06
  • ISBN : 1479815225
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Mining the Heartland written by Erik Kojola and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota’s Iron Range On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The crowd eagerly listened to speeches on how the project would bring long-term risks and potentially pollute the drinking water for current and future generations. A year later, another proposed mining project became the subject of a public hearing in a small town near the proposed site. But this time, local politicians and union leaders praised the mine proposal as an asset that would strengthen working-class communities in Minnesota. In many rural American communities, there is profound tension around the preservation and protection of wilderness and the need to promote and profit from natural resources. In Mining the Heartland, Erik Kojola looks at both sides of these populist movements and presents a thoughtful account of how such political struggles play out. Drawing on over a hundred ethnographic interviews with people of the region, from members of labor unions to local residents to scientists, Kojola is able to bring this complex struggle over mining to life. Focusing on both pro- and anti-mining groups, he expands upon what this conflict reveals about the way whiteness and masculinity operate among urban and rural residents, and the different ways in which class, race, and gender shape how people relate to the land. Mining the Heartland shows the negotiation and conflict between two central aspects of the state's culture and economy: outdoor recreation in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes and the lucrative mining of the Iron Range.

Book The North Country Trail

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  • Author : Ron Strickland
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2013-04-30
  • ISBN : 0472051849
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The North Country Trail written by Ron Strickland and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty premier hikes through the scenic beauty of America’s rugged northern heartlands

Book Geological Survey Professional Paper

Download or read book Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hut to Hut USA

Download or read book Hut to Hut USA written by Laurel Bradley and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Independent Publisher Book Award GOLD in Travel Guidebooks Overview of sixteen complete systems (three or more huts) with all you need to know to plan a trip—from terrain to costs and other logistics At-a-glance tables for quick comparison of hut systems Full-color photos and detailed maps Hut to Hut USA celebrates the opportunities for hut-tohut hiking, mountain biking, and skiing or snowshoeing at sixteen hut systems across the United States—from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s hiking huts in the White Mountains, to the San Juan Huts that allow mountain bikers to pedal from Telluride or Durango to Moab, to the Rendezvous Huts for Nordic skiers in Washington’s Methow Valley. For the featured systems, the book describes modes of travel, amenities, quality of experience, terrain, required skill level, the route itself, wayfinding tips, and booking and cost details, with photographs and maps. Suggested day-by-day itineraries with mileages, elevation gain and loss, and hut GPS coordinates help adventurers craft their trip. Demas and Bradley also offer a general history of hut systems around the world and examine how they have developed in the US over the past century. This comprehensive, practical guidebook is the first to cover all of the US hut systems, meeting growing interest in hut-tohut travel.