The Big Marsh : the story of a lost landscape

The Big Marsh The story of a lost landscape

Cheri Register, 1945-

Book - 2016

"An environmental history of Freeborn County, Minnesota's Big Marsh, which was tilled and drained 130 years ago at public expense for agricultural purposes. Told from a personal point of view, this story shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now"--

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Subjects
Marshes > Minnesota > Freeborn County > History.
Drainage > Environmental aspects > Minnesota > Freeborn County > History.
Drainage > Economic aspects > Minnesota > Freeborn County > History.
Agriculture > Environmental aspects > Minnesota > Freeborn County > History.
Landscape changes > Minnesota > Freeborn County > History.
Landscape protection > Minnesota > Freeborn County > History.
Businessmen > Minnesota > Freeborn County > Biography.
Real estate developers > Minnesota > Freeborn County > Biography.
Freeborn County (Minn.) > Environmental conditions.
Freeborn County (Minn.) > Economic conditions.
Published
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press 2016.
Language
English
Main Author
Cheri Register, 1945- (author)
Physical Description
271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780873519953
  • Prologue
  • Part I. The Lay of the Land
  • Hollandale: An Introduction
  • Freeborn County: Home, but No Biome
  • Looking for the Big Marsh
  • Part II. Life on the Big Marsh
  • No Empty Landscape
  • The Grid That Turned Land to a Commodity
  • Homing on the Marsh: The Speers
  • The Trip from Otranto Revisited
  • Claiming the High Ground: The Ostranders
  • Hazards
  • What Counts as a Lake?
  • The Evolution of the Drainage Ditch
  • A Watershed Year: 1877
  • A New Home on the Prairie: A Speculation
  • Fire on the Marsh
  • Part III. The Big Ditch
  • The Alleged Conniver: Putnam Dana McMillan
  • The First Drainage
  • The Middle Man: William A. Morin
  • Robert Speer Travels through Time
  • Eighteen Yoke of Oxen
  • "The Great Ricelawn Ranch"
  • A Change of Hands Bodes a Change of Lands
  • What's Black and White and Grazes All Over?
  • The Second Try
  • New Man About Town: John Felix Dryden Meighen
  • The People Protest
  • How to Read a Flying Bundle of Twine
  • A Lone Voice for the Environment: Fred McCall
  • Counterarguments
  • The Moscow Farm Prospers
  • Meighen in Court and Courting
  • The Winning Strategy
  • Rice Lake and the Big Marsh Go Down the Drain
  • The Swamp Angel Plays Cupid
  • The New Model Farmer
  • The Victor's History
  • The Mysterious Fall of Bryant Barber and Other Endings
  • Part IV. Restitution and Restoration From Booty to Beauty
  • Wo Wacintanka
  • For the Birds
  • Acknowledgments
  • Source Notes
  • Notes
  • Image Credits

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