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North Woods River The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History Eileen M. McMahon and Theodore J. Karamanski Wisconsin Land and Life Arnold Alanen, Series Editor The history of a beautiful and historic National Scenic Riverway The St. Croix River, the free-flowing boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota, is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. The area’s first recorded human inhabitants were the Dakota Indians, whose lands were transformed by fur trade empires and the loggers who called it the “river of pine.” A patchwork of farms, cultivated by immigrants from many countries, followed the cutover forests. Today, the St. Croix River Valley is a tourist haven in the land of sky-blue waters and a peaceful escape for residents of the bustling Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan region. North Woods River is a thoughtful biography of the river over the course of more than three hundred years. Eileen McMahon and Theodore Karamanski track the river’s social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. The history of the St. Croix revealed here offers larger lessons about the future management of beautiful and fragile wild waters. “This excellent book will inform newcomers to the valley about the history of their new home, and it will give all readers a better understanding of how successive waves of people have interacted with and altered the natural landscapes of the area.”—Robert Gough, author of Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900–1940 Eileen M. McMahon is assistant professor of history at Lewis University. Theodore J. Karamanski is professor of history at Loyola University. • This volume has been made possible, in part, through support from Loyola University Chicago, Xcel Energy, Anderson Corporation, the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, and the St. Croix Valley Foundation. For more information regarding publicity and reviews contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

October 2009 LC: 2009009307 F 416 pp.    6 x 9 23 b/w illus., 9 maps ISBN 978-0-299-23424-9 Paper $24.95 available at a 20% discount Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first. To learn more about the river, visit: • St. Croix National Scenic Riverway (National Park Service) www.nps.gov/sacn • St. Croix Valley Foundation www.scvcf.org/st_croix_river.htm

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