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Pine Stream Prairie
Author: James Gray

Pine, Sir earn and Prairie PINE, STREAM PRAIRIE Wisconsin and Minnesota in Profile BY JAMES GRAY NEW YORK ALFRED A KNOPF 1946 CONTENTS THE PLACE AND ITS PEOPLE 1. Heartland Theme with Variations PAGE 3 2. Here Is the Place the Central Place n 3. Waves of Invasion 22 4. From Primitivism to Primitivisrn 36 WORK 5. The Farmer Is a Scientist 47 6. A... more » Saga of Bread 58 7. Red Giant in the Earth 70 8. Timber Is a Crop 88 9. Fishermans Luck 101 THOUGHT 10. Hearing from the People 109 11. Cows, Colleges, and Contentment 135 1 2 . Voices in a Quiet Room 151 THE ARTS 13. Sing, Regional Muse 175 14. The Creative Impulse Is Indestructible 192 Vlll CONTENTS 15. A Day in Erewhon 205 1 6. Father of the Skyscraper 217 17. Reject Me Not 222 PLAY 1 8. Escape of the Old Adain 227 19. Short Retirement, Sweet Return 238 SOCIAL LIFE 20. The Hum of Cities 254 2.1. Main Street Revisited 282 22. The Old Complaint 288 23. Souvenirs of Pioneer Splendor 295 24. Ten Chimneys 303 25. Postscript and Prediction 310 Index follows page 312 ILLUSTRATIONS Map of Minnesota and Wisconsin FRONTISPIECE FOLLOWING PAGE Painted Rocks on the shore of Border Lake 20 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Minnesota and Wisconsin meet at the St. Croix River 20 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Post office, general store, and bar at Penasse, Minnesota 3 6 Northernmost to f um in the United States Minnesota Tourist Bureau The Mississippi River at Lynxville, Wisconsin 36 Dispatch-Pioneer Press Open pit mine at Hibbing, Minnesota 52 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Hibbing, Minnesota, was moved so that its site could be mned 1919 5 2 Dispatch-Pioneer Press The largest iron-loading docks in the world, Superior, Wisconsin 52 Dispatch-Pioneer Press The ghost town of Tromrnald on the Cuyuna Range 52 Dispatch-Pioneer Press Highway through the fields near Red Wing, Minnesota 84 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Grain elevator at Superior, Wisconsin 84 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Hungry gulls in the wake pick up scraps 100 Minnesota Tourist Bureau IX X ILLUSTRATIONS FOLLOWING PAGB Fishing through the ice i oo Minnesota Tourist Bureau A twenty - pound pickerel caught through the ice 100 Minnesota Tourist Bureau De-netting the catch aboard a fishing tug 100 Minnesota Tourist Bureau They lit the fires of reform 1 1 6 i. Victor Berger 2. Floyd E. Olson P. A. Photo Dispatch-Pioneer Press 3. Ignatius Donnelly 4. Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Dispatch-Pioneer Press Underwood Underwood The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from the air 1 1 6 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Frank Lloyd Wright and - four of his disciples 148 Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin Dispatch-Pioneer Press The Capitol designed by Cass Gilbert , St. Paid, Minnesota 148 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Dog team and sled near Gimflint Lake, Minnesota 1 80 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Bringing a doe into camp near Ely, Minnesota 180 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Paul Eunyan and Babe, the Blue Ox, at Bemidji, Minnesota 2 1 2 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Modern logging near International Falls, Minnesota 212 Minnesota Tourist Bureau St. foul is on the Mississippi 228 Dispatch-Pioneer Press Minneapolis is proud of its parks 228 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Milwaukee takes advantage of its Lake Michigan shore 228 The Milwaukee Journal ILLUSTRATIONS XI FOLLOWING PAGE Duluth and Lake Superior, looking toward Wisconsin 228 Minnesota Tourist Bureau Rochester, Minnesota, is dominated by the Mayo Clinic 244 Rochester Chamber of Commerce Sister Kenny demonstrates her method to Rosalind Russell, screen actress 244 Dispatch-Pioneer Press The Villa Louis at Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin 276 Draivmg-room Library, f with portrait of Her odes Dousmrn Dispatch-Pioneer Press The Capitol and Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin 276 Dispatch-Pioneer Press Ten Chimneys 292 Home of Alfred Lunt and Lyrm Fontanne at Genesee, Wisconsin The Theatre Guild Lynn Fontanne 292 at the kitchen door of Ten Chimneys The Theatre Guild Alfred Lunt 292 In the garden of Ten Chimneys The Theatre Guild Pine, Stream and Prairie

ISBN-13: 9781406745139
ISBN-10: 1406745138
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 364
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Publisher: Fite Press
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