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Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback, New)
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Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback, New)
Series: A North Coast Book
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Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue
silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A
Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The
dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy
town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa
families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the
Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into
hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and
life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book,
Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of
original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an
introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical
processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and
people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it
is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and
history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and
climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests;
the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who
established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves
of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut
the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper
mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy
cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of
Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township
governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the
role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's
growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands
that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a
sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps,
this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about
the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.
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