Title:
The Driftless Reader / edited by Curt Meine and Keefe Keeley.
ISBN:
9780299314804
Publication Information:
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
©2017
Physical Description:
xxxix, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Geologic origins -- Ancient peoples -- Historical ecologies -- Native voices -- Explorations -- Early economies -- Settler stories -- Farming lives -- Waterways -- Conserving lands -- Communities in transition -- Futures.
Summary:
"The Driftless Reader gathers writings that highlight the unique natural and cultural history, landscape, and literature of this region that encompasses southwestern Wisconsin and adjacent Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. The more than eighty selected texts include writings by Black Hawk, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, David Rhodes, and many other Native people, explorers, scientists, historians, farmers, songwriters, journalists, and poets. Paintings, photographs, maps, and other images complement the texts, providing a deeper appreciation of this region's layered natural and human history"--Publisher's description.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn978295282
Availability:
~0
