Nature’s Crossroads
Nature’s Crossroads

Author: George Vrtis

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0822989107

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Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, and reached well beyond their urban confines, setting in motion the environmental transformation of distant hinterlands. As these processes unfolded, residents inscribed their culture into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. These stories lie at the heart of Nature’s Crossroads. The book features an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars who aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota.

Minnesota Vacation Days
Minnesota Vacation Days

Author: Kathryn Strand Koutsky

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780873515269

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From the authors of Minnesota Eats Out, this lavishly illustrated and jam-packed book brings readers 150 years of vacation getaways in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 2242

ISBN-13:

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Everyone's Country Estate
Everyone's Country Estate

Author: Roy Willard Meyer

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780873512664

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In 1891 Minnesota established its first state park at Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. In the century that followed, Minnesotans and tourists from other states have enjoyed hiking, picnicking, fishing, camping, canoeing, and skiing at Itasca and Minnesota's 64 other state parks. This helpful guide to the past in the parks will be welcomed by people who regularly visit a favorite Minnesota park, people who have set out to visit every park, and people who are newly discovering the parks' wonders.

Voyageur Country
Voyageur Country

Author: Robert Treuer

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9780816631551

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"Over 250,000 people visit Minnesota's only national park each year. This popularity raises crucial questions: Can timber wolves thrive amid snowmobiles and jet skis? Can the thin layer of fragile soil atop the Precambrian shield, the oldest exposed rock on earth, survive the feet of campers? Voyageur Country explores these quandaries, describes the environmental significance of the park, and presents the only complete history of this important region." "The first paperback edition of this classic work includes an updated preface and chronology. The birth of the modern incarnation of Voyageurs as a national park is detailed, with accounts of the contributions of Sigurd Olson and other conservationists. Voyageur Country is an essential launching point for considering the policy that guides our relationship with the land."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved