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

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Title:

ISBN:

9781517901073

Personal Author:

Greene, Howard, 1864-1956

Publication Information:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 372 pages ; 27 cm

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.

Personal Subject:

Greene, Howard, 1864-1956-Diaries.

Greene, Howard, 1864-1956-Travel-Middle West.

Geographic Term:

Middle West -- Description and travel.

Subject Term:

Canoes and canoeing--Wisconsin -- History 20th century

Canoes and canoeing--Minnesota -- History 20th century

Canoes and canoeing--Michigan -- History 20th century

Canoes and canoeing--Canada -- History 20th century.

Added Author:

Phillips, Martha Greene