Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
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Contents
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Fish Stories -- 2. Boats in the Backyard -- 3. The Mepps Story -- 4. Trouting on the Brule: An 1875 Fishing Expedition to Northern Wisconsin and Michigan -- 5. Lost Outboard Recovered after Seventy Years -- 6. Carl Marty's Northernaire: A Special Place in Time -- 7. Hazen's Long Lake Lodge -- 8. First Resorts: Teal Lake Lodge -- 9. Mel's Trading Post -- 10. Pastika's Sport Shop: Ninety Years of Muskies and Minnows -- 11. Duke's Outboards: A Northwoods Institution -- 12. The Rhinelander Boat Company
13. Waterfowl Hunting with Live Decoys14. Spring Duck Hunting in the 1800s -- 15. An Old Dog for a New Century: The History of the American Water Spaniel -- 16. The Armistice Day Storm: The Winds of Hell -- 17. One Day in March 1933 -- 18. Ike's First Vacation to the Wisconsin Northwoods -- 19. The Summer White House on the Brule -- 20. Murder at Pelican Lake -- 21. Trapping in the Blood: The Carl Schels Story -- 22. Remembering the State Fur Farm -- 23. The Portage and the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway -- 24. Pioneer Bits and Pieces
25. Charles Comiskey and the Northwoods26. The Wisconsin White Pine That Built a New York University -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author