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- catalog abstract ""The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate student headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in the stock market crash. Thrust into year-round life at her mother's fledgling summer resort, Justine was confronted with learning survival in the frigid north woods, a challenge she met with extraordinary verve and recounts with great candor and humor in this remarkable book. As she relates her lessons from the Canadian Indians across the lake-how to paddle a canoe, hunt moose, drive a dog team, and stay warm at minus 40 degrees-Kerfoot gives us a rich sense of the world of the Indians [Aboriginal or Native peoples - First Nations] and fur trappers. Telling the story of settlement in this rough resort area fifty miles from a town, she describes the effects of depression and forest fires and the struggles for modernization in the wild. Kerfoot has paddled all the lakes and streams in this border country, and she knows them well. Her lyrical descriptions of wildlife and seasonal environments express the deep reverence for nature that has become her way of life. In a final chapter, she reflects on the impact of restricted wilderness status on the region -- called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since 1978 -- and on her own convictions about people living in the wild."--pub. desc.".
- catalog contributor b6182793.
- catalog coverage "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate student headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in the stock market crash. Thrust into year-round life at her mother's fledgling summer resort, Justine was confronted with learning survival in the frigid north woods, a challenge she met with extraordinary verve and recounts with great candor and humor in this remarkable book. As she relates her lessons from the Canadian Indians across the lake-how to paddle a canoe, hunt moose, drive a dog team, and stay warm at minus 40 degrees-Kerfoot gives us a rich sense of the world of the Indians [Aboriginal or Native peoples - First Nations] and fur trappers. Telling the story of settlement in this rough resort area fifty miles from a town, she describes the effects of depression and forest fires and the struggles for modernization in the wild.".
- catalog description "Kerfoot has paddled all the lakes and streams in this border country, and she knows them well. Her lyrical descriptions of wildlife and seasonal environments express the deep reverence for nature that has become her way of life. In a final chapter, she reflects on the impact of restricted wilderness status on the region -- called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since 1978 -- and on her own convictions about people living in the wild."--pub. desc.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 176 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0816624437 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog spatial "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog subject "977.6/75 20".
- catalog subject "F612.B73 K47 1994".
- catalog subject "Kerfoot, Justine, 1906-".
- catalog subject "Natural history Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog subject "Outdoor life Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area.".
- catalog title "Woman of the Boundary Waters : canoeing, guiding, mushing, and surviving / Justine Kerfoot ; foreword by Les Blacklock ; [with a new afterword by the author].".
- catalog type "Electronic books".
- catalog type "text".