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Border country : the northwoods canoe journals of Howard Greene, 1906-1916 / [edited by] Martha Greene Phillips ; foreword by Peter Geye.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]Description: xxxvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781517901073
  • 1517901073
Subject(s):
Contents:
The Wisconsin River, 1906 -- The St. Croix River trip, 1907 -- The Gang on the Presque Isle River, 1909 -- The rambles of the Gang in the rainy lake country, 1910 -- The rambles of the Gang on the Dawson Trail, 1911 -- The Gang and the Pigeon Outfit, 1914 -- Pack and paddle from Tower to Ranier, 1915 -- The Chippewa River trip, 1916.
Summary: Border Country" is a collection of the remarkable, handmade journals from businessman Howard Greene?s early 1900s canoe trips to the north woods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Canada. Reproduced with numerous photographs and maps, these journals are a window into a world at once familiar and strange, the wilderness caught on the verge of becoming the North Woods we know today.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 917.704 G799 Available 33111008685121
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the summer of 1906, a Milwaukee businessman set out with his young sons and some friends to canoe and camp in the north woods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Canada. It was the first of several month-long journeys Howard Greene and "The Gang" would make over the years, each detailed in remarkable, handmade journals and documented in hundreds of large-format photographs. Reproduced here with a large selection of photographs and maps, these journals convey readers into a riverine world of outdoor adventure--a northland wilderness and way of life that were, even as Howard Greene charted their genuine charms, already vanishing.

Introduced and annotated by Greene's daughter, these observant narratives run rapids and portage and paddle lakes and rivers, including the Chippewa, Wisconsin, St. Croix, and Presque Isle as well as traveling in areas now in Quetico Provincial Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Along the way Greene, a skilled photographer, captures images of logging and mining operations, primitive dams and even more primitive camping, trading posts, and many remote Native American villages. Through it all runs the story of family and friendship forged over campfires in the north woods, reported with dry wit, a keen eye for detail, and an abiding interest in the natural world.

Composed decades before Sigurd Olson or Calvin Rutstrum began documenting the wild life of the upper Midwest, Howard Greene's journals are a window into a world at once familiar and strange, the wilderness caught on the verge of becoming the North Woods we know today.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Wisconsin River, 1906 -- The St. Croix River trip, 1907 -- The Gang on the Presque Isle River, 1909 -- The rambles of the Gang in the rainy lake country, 1910 -- The rambles of the Gang on the Dawson Trail, 1911 -- The Gang and the Pigeon Outfit, 1914 -- Pack and paddle from Tower to Ranier, 1915 -- The Chippewa River trip, 1916.

Border Country" is a collection of the remarkable, handmade journals from businessman Howard Greene?s early 1900s canoe trips to the north woods of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and Canada. Reproduced with numerous photographs and maps, these journals are a window into a world at once familiar and strange, the wilderness caught on the verge of becoming the North Woods we know today.

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