Author : Carolyn Gilman
Publisher : St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873512701
This is a history of 300 years of trade and tradition on Lake Superior's North Shore, with special interest in Grand Portage where the Grand Portage National Monument was established.
Author : Bruce White
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781484920961
The purpose of this report is to describe the fur trade that took place at Grand Portage between Europeans and Native Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries. During this period Grand Portage was important for many reasons. A strategic geographical point in the trade route between the Great Lakes and the Canadian Northwest, it was best known as a trade depot and company headquarters in the period between 1765 and 1804.
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Richard W. Ojakangas
Publisher : Roadside Geology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780878425624
Minnesota's lakes may be its most famous features, but the glaciated countryside disguises a much longer history of volcanoes and plate collisions--not surprising when you learn that Minnesota was at the active edge of the fledgling North American continent for several billion years.
Author : R. Newell Searle
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1977-01-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780873511407
Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea -- wilderness preservation.
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1987
Category : National Parks
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Author : Margi Preus
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0823448444
A red squirrel stows away on a canoe to fulfill his dream of joining a group of voyageurs--men who paddle canoes filled with goods to a trading post thousands of miles away. A Finalist for the Minnesota Book Award It is 1792 and unbeknownst to a group of voyageurs traveling from Montreal to Grand Portage, an intrepid squirrel, Jean Pierre Petit Le Rouge, sneaks onto their canoe. Le Rouge is soon discovered because he can't contain his excitement--mon dieu he is so enthusiastic. The smells! The vistas! The comradery! The voyageurs are not particularly happy to have him, especially because Le Rouge rides, but he does not paddle. He eats, but he does not cook. He doesn't even carry anything on portages--sometimes it is he who has to be carried. He also has a terrible singing voice. What kind of voyageur is that? When they finally arrive at the trading post Le Rouge is in for a terrible shock--the voyageurs have traveled all those miles to collect beaver pelts. With the help of Monique, a smart and sweet flying squirrel, Le Rouge organizes his fur-bearing friends of the forest to ambush the men and try and convince them to quit being voyageurs. Written by a Newbery honor author, the book has over 20 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Mike Link
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780880119009
Naturalist Mike Link provides detailed descriptions of more than 100 trails throughout Minnesota. The book features easy-to-read park and trail maps, offers a look at the natural history of the hiking areas, and includes practical information, such as park contacts and phone numbers. Photos.
Author : Grace Lee Nute
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873517067
Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.
Author : Timothy Cochrane
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
Minong (the Ojibwe name for Isle Royale) is the search for the history of the Ojibwe people's relationship with this unique island in the midst of Lake Superior. Piece by piece, Cochrane has assembled a narrative of a people, an island, and a way of life that transcends borders, governments, documentation, and tidy categories. His account reveals an authentic 'history': the missing details, contradictions, deviations from the conventions of historical narrative--the living entity at the intersection of documentation by those long dead and the narratives of those still living in the area.
