LURE OF THE NORTH WOODS
Publisher: MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780816677931
Description: "This book tells the story of how northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula became a tourist paradise, turning a scarred industrial countryside into the playground we know today. Aaron Shapiro describes how residents and visitors reshaped the region from a landscape of exploitation to a vacationland and reveals how leisure--and tourism in particular--has shaped modern America."--Publisher's website.