The North Country; a History
Author: Harry Fay Landon
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 640
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Author: Harry Fay Landon
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 640
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 0816648689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.
Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher: HMH
Published: 2014-07-29
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0544391241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler’s delight” (Kirkus Reviews). “Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,” North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United States in search of the country’s last unspoiled frontiers (The Boston Sunday Globe). In this vast, sparsely settled territory, Howard Frank Mosher found both a harsh and beautiful landscape and some of the continent’s most independent men and women. Here, he brings this remote area to vivid life in a book “bright with anecdote and history and lore and most importantly with affection for his human subjects” (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day). “A classic road book. You could, with confidence, place this book on the shelf next to such American classics as John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and Jonathan Raban’s Old Glory.” —Detroit Free Press “What Mosher’s northern journey is really about is our society’s loss of Eden, the garden we were promised when we came here. The garden we’ve turned into pulp fiction and rocket ranges. The very fact that this brave book can stir up so many thoughts about the predicaments of civilization is surely an indication that it is well worth reading.” —Ottawa Citizen
Author: Harry F. Landon
Publisher:
Published: 1997-07
Total Pages: 1647
ISBN-13: 9780832868870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon K. Lauck
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780806191881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're 'Up North,' a region that defies definition but is nonetheless unmistakable. In North Country, contributing scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explore the distinctive landscape, culture, and history manifested in the northern margins of the American Midwest"--
Author: David Pichaske
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-04-08
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1441197397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.
Author: Sigurd F. Olson
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2012-04-25
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0307761614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in the last years of his life, Reflections from the North Country is often considered Sigurd Olson's most intellectually significant work. In an account alive with anecdote and insight, Olson outlines the wilderness philosophy he developed while working as an outspoken advocate for the conservation of America's natural heritage.Based on speeches delivered at town meetings and government hearings, this book joins The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point as the core of Olson's work. Upon its initial publication in 1976, Reflections from the North Country, with Olson's unique combination of lyrical nature writing and activism, became an inspiration to the burgeoning environmental movement, selling over 46,000 copies in hardcover. In this wide-ranging work, Olson evokes the soaring grace of raven, osprey, and eagle, the call of the loon, and the song of the hermit thrush. He challenges the reader to loosen the grasp of technology and the rush of contemporary life and make room for a sense of wonder heightened by being in nature. From evolution to the meaning and power of solitude, Olson meditates on the human condition, offering eloquent testimony to the joys and truths he discovered in his beloved north-country wilderness.
Author: John Bartlow Martin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780814318690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Bartlow Martin, a freelance writer who had spent long weeks in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, was struck with the idea of a book on Michigan's Upper Peninsula when he was there on his wedding trip. Returning each summer to the area, Martin discovered the region's diverse history, full of colorful and interesting personalities and events. The territory has been wilderness, a haunt of the Chippewas and the Hurons, copper country, iron country, lumber country, and lastly, a vacation land. Filled with stories of adventure and daring, Call It North Country recounts the lives of miners, hunters, trappers, and lumberjacks- the hardy breeds who first populated the harsh land of the Upper Peninsula.
Author: Harry F. Landon
Publisher:
Published: 1932-01
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ISBN-13: 9781404751880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Reeve Lindbergh
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780395828199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRhyming verse and illustrations describe the arrival of spring in the north. Includes section with facts about animal behavior.