The lure of the North woods : cultivating tourism in the upper Midwest

Author

Aaron Shapiro

Call Number

• H 338.479177 S5292 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2013.

Physical Description

xix, 296 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred industrial countryside into the playground we know today. Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland and reveals how leisure--and tourism in particular--has shaped modern America."--Publisher's website.