TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMahon,Eileen M.
AU  - Karamanski,Theodore J.
TI  - North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History
T2  - Wisconsin Land and Life Series
SN  - 9780299234232
AV  - F587 
U1  - 977.5/1 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Saint Croix River (Wis. and Minn.)--History
KW  - Saint Croix River Valley (Wis. and Minn.)--History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Valley of Plenty, River of Conflict -- Chapter 2 River of Pine -- Chapter 3 "The New Land": Settlement and Agriculture -- Chapter 4 Up North:The Development of Recreation in the St. Croix Valley -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The St. Croix River, the free-flowing boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota, is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. The area's first recorded human inhabitants were the Dakota Indians, whose lands were transformed by fur trade empires and the loggers who called it the "river of pine." A patchwork of farms, cultivated by immigrants from many countries, followed the cutover forests. Today, the St. Croix River Valley is a tourist haven in the land of sky-blue waters and a peaceful escape for residents of the bustling Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region. North Woods River is a thoughtful biography of the river over the course of more than three hundred years. Eileen McMahon and Theodore Karamanski track the river's social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. The history of the St. Croix revealed here offers larger lessons about the future management of beautiful and fragile wild waters
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