The Lure of the North Woods Cultivating Tourism in the Upper Midwest 1st Edition by Aaron Shapiro ISBN 978-0816677931 ‎ 081667793X

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ISBN 10:   ‎ 081667793X

ISBN 13: 978-0816677931

Author: Aaron Shapiro

In the late nineteenth century, the North Woods offered people little in the way of a pleasant escape. Rather, it was a hub of production supplying industrial America with vast quantities of lumber and mineral ore. This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred countryside into the playground we know today.

Stripped of much of its timber and ore by the early 1900s, the North Woods experienced deindustrialization earlier than the Rust Belt cities that consumed its resources. In The Lure of the North Woods, Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland. The rejuvenating North Woods profited in new ways by drawing on emerging connections between the urban and the rural, including improved transportation, promotion, recreational land use, and conservation initiatives. Shapiro demonstrates how this transformation helps explain the interwar origins of modern American environmentalism, when both the consumption of nature for pleasure and the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the North Woods and elsewhere led many Americans to cultivate a fresh perspective on the outdoors. At a time when travel and recreation are considered major economic forces, The Lure of the North Woods reveals how leisure—and tourism in particular—has shaped modern America.

Table of contents: 

1. A Crop Worth Cultivating: Creating the North Woods

2. Tourists Do Not Deplete Our Soil: Interwar Land Conservation

3. No Dull Days at Dunn’s: Labor and Leisure in the North Woods

4. Tell the World about Your Charms: The Promotional Appeal

5. You’ve Earned It-Now Enjoy It: Playing in the Postwar Era

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