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Author : J. Arnold Bolz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903804
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Portage Into the Past written by J. Arnold Bolz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Wilbers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841892
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time written by Stephen Wilbers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teasing out the history of a place celebrated for timelessness--where countless paddle strokes have disappeared into clear waters--requires a sure and attentive hand. Stephen Wilbers's account reaches back to the glaciers that first carved out the Boundary Waters and to the original inhabitants, as well as to generations of wilderness explorers, both past and present. He does so without losing the personal relationship built through a lifetime of pilgrimages (anchored by almost three decades of trips with his father). This story captures the untold broader narrative of the region, as well as a thousand different details sure to be recognized by fellow pilgrims, like the grinding rhythm of a long portage or the loon call that slips into that last moment before sleep.
Author : Benjamin Sells
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810143917
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book A History of the Chicago Portage written by Benjamin Sells and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nation This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Chicago Portage was a geopolitically significant resource that the French, British, and US governments jockeyed to control. Later, it became a template for some of the most significant waterways created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The portage gave Chicago its name and spurred the city’s success—and is the reason why the metropolis is located in Illinois, not Wisconsin. A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America is the definitive story of a national landmark.
Author : George Steiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226772357
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. written by George Steiner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt and vengeance and the power of evil, Israeli Nazi-hunters, 30 years after the end of World War II, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle who turns out to be Adolf Hitler.
Author : Carolyn Gilman
Publisher : St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873512701
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)
Download or read book The Grand Portage Story written by Carolyn Gilman and published by St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of 300 years of trade and tradition on Lake Superior's North Shore, with special interest in Grand Portage where the Grand Portage National Monument was established.
Author : Robert C. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Portage County, Ohio written by Robert C. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Martin Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science written by John Martin Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Pogorzelski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738552293
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Portage Park written by Daniel Pogorzelski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chicago, it has long been common knowledge that the neighborhoods have been overshadowed by the Loop's luster. Portage Park is one of these hidden gems, offering up a wealth of history, culture, and art. As the site of a lesser-known Chicago Portage, the largest retail district outside the Loop at Six Corners, the visual backdrop of movies such as My Life and The Color of Money, and the spot where both Abraham Lincoln and John Dillinger legendarily stayed and the sister of the czar of Bulgaria prayed, this corner of Chicago has seen its share of glitz and glory. Discover Portage Park's architectural treasures, whether it is in its place as a part of Chicago's "Bungalow Belt," its wealth of notable buildings spanning different genres and time periods, or its beautiful churches and grand movie palaces. An area diverse in culture, many peoples, beginning with Native Americans and going onto the Yankees, Irish, Scandinavians, eastern Europeans, and even a Tibetan lama, have made Portage Park their home, each adding their own unique contribution to the vibrant cultural landscape. The site of the largest concentration of Chicago's legendary Polish population, it is also the place where immigrants left the inner city's ethnic enclaves to take part in the American dream.
Author : John Henricksson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617662430
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Over the Portage, Into History written by John Henricksson and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the Portage, Into History," chronicles the lives of eight adventurous, but little known, fur traders, explorers, canoeists and couriers de bois (woods runners, or unlicensed traders), who traversed this area in canoes and who left highly visible legacies on the history of the million and a half square mile Hudson Bay watershed, or Rupert's Land. In the nearly 200 years of the fur trade (1650 to 1840), there were never more than 3,000 people in this vast region, primarily Indian, French, English, and Scottish, and later a few Americans, yet it produced millions of dollars in furs and was the largest dollar volume industry in the western hemisphere. John Henricksson has written about the natural and cultural history of northern Minnesota for fifty years in newspapers, magazines, and books; and has contributed to radio, TV, and film programming. His book on the wildlife of the Gunflint region, "A Wild Neighborhood," won the Minnesota Book Award for nature writing.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385359317
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
Author : James Edwin Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History of Columbia County, Wisconsin written by James Edwin Jones and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Layne Kennedy
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873517782
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Paddle North written by Layne Kennedy and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Quetico- Boundary Waters with seasoned paddlers-- one a writer, one a photographer--whose work reflects on the spirit of the place, conveying an open invitation to visit an ages-old wilderness.
Author : Sue Leaf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816698547
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Portage written by Sue Leaf and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When as a child she first saw a canoe gliding on Lake Alexander in central Minnesota, Sue Leaf was mesmerized. The enchantment stayed with her and shimmers throughout this book as we join Leaf and her family in canoeing the waterways of North America, always on the lookout for the good life amid the splendors and surprises of the natural world. The journey begins with a trip to the border lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, then wanders into the many beautiful little rivers of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the provincial parks of Canada, the Louisiana bayou, and the arid West. A biologist and birder, Leaf considers natural history and geology, noticing which plants are growing along the water and which birds are flitting among the branches. Traveling the routes of the Ojibwe, voyageurs, and map-making explorers, she reflects on the region's history, peopling her pages with Lewis and Clark, Jean Lafitte, Henry Schoolcraft, and Canada's Group of Seven artists. Part travelogue, part natural and cultural history, Portage is the memoir of one family's thirty-five-year venture into the watery expanse of the world. Through sunny days and stormy hours and a few hair-raising moments, Sue and her husband, Tom, celebrate anniversaries on the water; haul their four kids along on family adventures; and occasionally make the paddle a social outing with friends. Along the way they contend with their own human nature: they run rapids when it would have been wiser to portage, take portages and learn truths about aging, avoid portages and ponder risk-taking. Through it all, out in the open, in the wild, in the blue, exploring the river means encountering life--good decisions and missed chances, risks and surprises, and the inevitable changes that occur as a family canoes through time and learns what it means to be human in this natural world.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Kahn
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
ISBN 13 : 9781553790457
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (94 download)
Download or read book World History written by Charles Kahn and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In World History: Societies of the Past, students explore societies of the past and see the influences and impact history has on their lives today. The textbook provides students with an easy-to-understand and in-depth look at human societies?from early hunters-gatherers to ancient societies to the beginnings of modern-day societies (1850 CE). A chronological approach explores social, environmental, political, economic, cultural, and technological issues that remain relevant in today's world. To help your students visualize historical situations and events, the textbook includes: hundreds of vibrant illustrations and historical artwork detailed maps, diagrams, and charts informative timelines questions, summaries, and quick facts stories of everyday people Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba Grade 7 Social Studies Learning Resource. recommended for British Columbia grade 7 classrooms
Author : Spike Carlsen
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612125689
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Cabin Lessons written by Spike Carlsen and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When carpenter Spike Carlsen and his wife set out with their recently blended family of five kids to build a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior, they quickly realized that painting, parenting, and putting up drywall all come with both frustrations and unexpected rewards. Part building guide and part memoir, Cabin Lessons tells the wryly funny, heartwarming story of their eventful journey — from buying an unforgiving plot of land on an eroding cliff to (finally) enjoying the lakeside hideaway of their dreams.
Author : Staci Lola Drouillard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452960240
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Walking the Old Road written by Staci Lola Drouillard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore “We do this because telling where you are from is just as important as your name. It helps tie us together and gives us a strong and solid place to speak from. It is my hope that the stories of Chippewa City will be heard, shared, and remembered, and that the story of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Chippewa will continue to grow. By being a part of the living narrative, Bimaadizi Aadizookaan, together we can create a new story about what was, what is, and, ultimately, what will be.” —from the Prologue At the turn of the nineteenth century, one mile east of Grand Marais, Minnesota, you would have found Chippewa City, a village that as many as 200 Anishinaabe families called home. Today you will find only Highway 61, private lakeshore property, and the one remaining village building: St. Francis Xavier Church. In Walking the Old Road, Staci Lola Drouillard guides readers through the story of that lost community, reclaiming for history the Ojibwe voices that have for so long, and so unceremoniously, been silenced. Blending memoir, oral history, and narrative, Walking the Old Road reaches back to a time when Chippewa City, then called Nishkwakwansing (at the edge of the forest), was home to generations of Ojibwe ancestors. Drouillard, whose own family once lived in Chippewa City, draws on memories, family history, historical analysis, and testimony passed from one generation to the next to conduct us through the ages of early European contact, government land allotment, family relocation, and assimilation. Documenting a story too often told by non-Natives, whether historians or travelers, archaeologists or settlers, Walking the Old Road gives an authentic voice to the Native American history of the North Shore. This history, infused with a powerful sense of place, connects the Ojibwe of today with the traditions of their ancestors and their descendants, recreating the narrative of Chippewa City as it was—and is and forever will be—lived.
