Exploring Door County
Exploring Door County

Author: Craig Charles

Publisher: NorthWord Books for Young Readers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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This new edition is a comprehensive guide to enjoying the natural beauty of one of the most popular vacation areas in the Midwest--Door County. Includes new entries on trails, tours, parks, events and activities. Campers, city slickers, and hard-core hikers will all find something to their liking within these pages and on the trails of Door County, Peninsula. 80 photos and illustrations.

Door County's Emerald Treasure
Door County's Emerald Treasure

Author: William H. Tishler

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2006-09-20

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0299220737

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With its magnificent forests, bluffs, and shoreline and its breathtaking views of Green Bay and Lake Michigan, Door County’s Peninsula State Park is one of the Midwest’s most popular attractions. Established in 1909, it was Wisconsin’s second state park and a key to pioneering efforts to build a state park system that would be the envy of the nation. Door County’s Emerald Treasure explores the rich history of the park land, from its importance to Native Americans and early European settlers through the twentieth century. Bill Tishler engagingly relates the role of conservationists and progressives in establishing the state park, its growing popularity for tourism and recreation, and efforts to protect the park’s resources from a variety of threats. Tishler also tells a larger story of Americans’ intimate relationship with the land around them and the challenge to create accessible public spaces that preserve the natural environment.

Journeys to Door County
Journeys to Door County

Author: Mike Link

Publisher: Voyageur Press

Published: 1985-12-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780896580497

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Pictorial Discovery Guides from Voyageur Press provide focused coverage of popular destinations, landmarks, and heritage sites. Pictorial Discovery Guides offer an appealing combination of expert yet down-to-earth text and memorable color photography.

The American Midwest
The American Midwest

Author: Andrew R. L. Cayton

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2006-11-08

Total Pages: 1918

ISBN-13: 0253003490

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This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.