The lure of the north woods : cultivating tourism in the upper midwest / Aaron Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Aaron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outdoor life--Middle West--History.

Outdoor life.

Outdoor recreation--Middle West--History.

Outdoor recreation.

Tourism--Middle West--History.

Tourism.

Middle West--Social life and customs.

Middle West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

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 the playground we know today.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 resource

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: A North Woods Transformation; Chapter 1: A Crop Worth Cultivating: Creating the North Woods; Chapter 2: Tourists Do Not Deplete Our Soil: Interwar Land Conservation; Chapter 3: No Dull Days at Dunn's: Labor and Leisure in the North Woods; Chapter 4: Tell the World about Your Charms: The Promotional Appeal; Chapter 5: You've Earned It-Now Enjoy It: Playing in the Postwar Era; Chapter 6: The Not So Quiet Crisis: Tourism, Wilderness, and Regional Development; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8865-6