La Pointe: Village Outpost on Madeline Island (Wisconsin) - Softcover

Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870203215 ISBN 13: 9780870203213

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Wisconsin Historical Society Press has republished a long-out-of-print classic of Wisconsin history, La Pointe: Village Outpost, by Hamilton Nelson Ross (1889-1957). The book, which first appeared in 1960, provides a 300-year history of La Pointe, a community on Madeline Island, one of Lake Superior's Apostle Islands. With flair, humor, and solid scholarship, Ross tells the story of the region's evolution. Madeline Island served initially as a refuge for the local Ojibway from their enemy the Sioux before the arrival of French explorers in 1659, then an epicenter of the fur-trade era in the eighteenth century, and finally a summer vacation spot for businessmen and industrialists. Today the island attracts thousands of summer tourists who vastly outnumber the 200 or so year-round residents. Ross first visited Madeline Island from his native Beloit as an eight-year-old, returning again and again over his lifetime to the Ross family cabin in La Pointe. His years of careful study and observation served him well. Ross told the region's story so eloquently that his book helped persuade Congress and the President in 1970 to preserve the islands in perpetuity as the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

About this title

About the Author:

Hamilton Nelson Ross, a native of Beloit, became acquainted with the village of La Pointe in 1894 when he first visited Madeline Island as a boy. In the years that followed, he explored the Apostles, his curiosity piqued by stories he heard about the history of the region, and began his lifelong search for the historical truth that lay behind folklore and legend. Better than anyone before or since, he came to know the islanders and their lives intimately.

Synopsis:

La Pointe is the gateway to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore just off the Wisconsin shore of Lake Superior. First published in 1960, this is an account of three centuries of the history of La Pointe, supplemented with a chronology of events, a glossary of Ojibwe names, and a new foreword.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0870203215
• ISBN 13: 9780870203213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256