Finding the Northern Borderlands of the American Midwest / Jon K. Lauck -- Founding Fathers and Sons : One Anishinaabe Family's Multigenerational Struggle to Resist Settler Colonialism in the Great Lakes Borderland / Theodore J. Karamanski -- Borderland to Bordered Land : Colonial Struggles between the Bdewákhanthunwan Dakhóta, the U.S. Army, and the Hudson's Bay Company at the Forty-Ninth Parallel, 1863-1865 / Peter J. DeCarlo -- Where the Men Are Men and the Women Are, Too : Finnish Gender Stereotypes in the Upper Midwest / Hilary-Joy Virtanen -- The Northern Borderland as an Environmentally, Agriculturally, and Culturally Distinctive Subregion of the Midwest in the Late 1800s / Gregory S. Rose -- The Upper Peninsula and the Reporter : John Bartlow Martin's "Call It North Country" / Ray E. Boomhower -- Things Seen and Heard : Regional Identity and History in Sigurd F. Olson's Environmental Ethic / Jacob A. Bruggeman -- Four Hundred Miles South of Blackduck : A View of Northern Minnesota from below the State's Mason-Dixon Line / Christopher Vondracek -- Russell Kirk of Michigan : Citizen of Plymouth, Sage of Mecosta / Gleaves Whitney -- All One Thing : Seeking the Source of the Mississippi / Kevin Koch -- The Mysterious Migration of a Marvelous Mastodon / Hendrik Meijer -- Great Lakes Gothic : John Voelker's "Anatomy of a Murder," Robert Bloch's "Psycho," and the Haunt of the Northern Borderlands / Zachary Michael Jack -- How to Make a Noise like a Worm : Fishing Guides, Tourism, and Identity in the Northwoods / Tim Frandy -- Tourism, Treaty Rights, and Wisconsin's Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1974-1994 / Adam Mertz.
Summary:
"Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're 'Up North,' a region that defies definition but is nonetheless unmistakable. In North Country, contributing scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explore the distinctive landscape, culture, and history manifested in the northern margins of the American Midwest"-- Provided by publisher. "Travel north from the upper Midwest's metropolises, and before long you're "Up North"--a region that's hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area--and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland. "-- Provided by publisher.
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