Vacation In The Indian Head Country Of Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Indian Head Country
Author | : Wisconsin Indian Head Country, Eau Claire, Wis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Wisconsin |
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Wisconsin Indian Head Country--a Guide to the Past
Author | : Errol Geniusz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Indians as mascots |
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In the 1930s, businessmen in the Eau Claire area and resort owners in Northwestern Wisconsin, an area decimated by logging, collaborated as a group with the hope of promoting tourism to the area. This group of men and resort owners created the organization Wisconsin Indian Head Country Inc. and to incorporate the reas as "authentic" they created and used an Indian head image. Eighty years later many organizations and businesses around Wisconsin continue to use them on maps and brochures. The purpose behind this research is to learn about the history, origins, purpose, and use of this iconic image and to discuss the local history of the region, including that of Native people and their role in promoting tourism. Recently, there has been much controversy over the use of Indian mascots for schools and professional teams around the country. One image that has been overlooked and is ever so prevalent is the Wisconsin Indian head image.
The Lure of the North Woods
Author | : Aaron Shapiro |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 515 |
Release | : 2013-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816688680 |
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.