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      The Driftless Reader

      $26.95
      More than eighty selected texts include writings by Black Hawk, Mark Twain, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Aldo Leopold, David Rhodes, explorers, scientists, historians, farmers, songwriters, journalists, and poets. Hardcover.
      Maker: UW Press
      Availability: In stock
      SKU: 9780299314804
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      Editors

      Kurt Meine. Keefe Keeley.

      Summary

      Ancient glaciers passed by the Driftless Area and waterways vein its interior, forming an enchanting, enigmatic landscape of sharp ridgetops and deep valleys. Across time, this rugged topography has been home to an astonishing variety of people: Sauk, Dakota, and Ho-Chunk villagers, Norwegian farmers and Mexican mercado owners, Dominican nuns and Buddhist monks, river raftsmen and Shakespearean actors, Cornish miners and African American barn builders, organic entrepreneurs and Hmong truck gardeners.

      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.

      Highlights include excerpts and art from:

      Carol Ryrie Brink
      William Cronon
      John T. Curtis
      August Derleth
      Richard Eberhart
      Fabu
      Hamlin Garland
      Pedro Guerrero
      Hoowaneka (Little Elk)
      Juliet Kinzie
      Patty Loew
      Ben Logan
      Truman Lowe
      Jacques Marquette
      Ken McCullough
      Edna Meudt
      Mountain Wolf Woman
      John Muir
      Zebulon Pike
      Henry Schoolcraft
      Clifford D. Simak
      Wallace Stegner
      Pearl Swiggum
      Henry David Thoreau
      Mark Twain
      Frank Utpatel
      Laura Ingalls Wilder
      Mark Wunderlich

      Details

      • Size: 6" x 9" x 1.5"
      • 388 pages
      • Illustrations: 16 color and 38 b/w
      • First Edition
      • Index
      • Publication year: 2017
      • University of Wisconsin Press

      About the editors

      Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and writer affiliated with the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Center for Humans and Nature, International Crane Foundation, and University of Wisconsin–Madison. His many books include Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work and Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision.

      Keefe Keeley, a native of the Kickapoo Valley, is executive director of the Savanna Institute, working with farmers on sustainable agro-ecosystems in the Upper Midwest.

      Editors

      Kurt Meine. Keefe Keeley.

      Summary

      Ancient glaciers passed by the Driftless Area and waterways vein its interior, forming an enchanting, enigmatic landscape of sharp ridgetops and deep valleys. Across time, this rugged topography has been home to an astonishing variety of people: Sauk, Dakota, and Ho-Chunk villagers, Norwegian farmers and Mexican mercado owners, Dominican nuns and Buddhist monks, river raftsmen and Shakespearean actors, Cornish miners and African American barn builders, organic entrepreneurs and Hmong truck gardeners.

      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.

      Highlights include excerpts and art from:

      Carol Ryrie Brink
      William Cronon
      John T. Curtis
      August Derleth
      Richard Eberhart
      Fabu
      Hamlin Garland
      Pedro Guerrero
      Hoowaneka (Little Elk)
      Juliet Kinzie
      Patty Loew
      Ben Logan
      Truman Lowe
      Jacques Marquette
      Ken McCullough
      Edna Meudt
      Mountain Wolf Woman
      John Muir
      Zebulon Pike
      Henry Schoolcraft
      Clifford D. Simak
      Wallace Stegner
      Pearl Swiggum
      Henry David Thoreau
      Mark Twain
      Frank Utpatel
      Laura Ingalls Wilder
      Mark Wunderlich

      Details

      • Size: 6" x 9" x 1.5"
      • 388 pages
      • Illustrations: 16 color and 38 b/w
      • First Edition
      • Index
      • Publication year: 2017
      • University of Wisconsin Press

      About the editors

      Curt Meine is a conservation biologist and writer affiliated with the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Center for Humans and Nature, International Crane Foundation, and University of Wisconsin–Madison. His many books include Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work and Wallace Stegner and the Continental Vision.

      Keefe Keeley, a native of the Kickapoo Valley, is executive director of the Savanna Institute, working with farmers on sustainable agro-ecosystems in the Upper Midwest.

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