Nature’s Crossroads: The Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Unearthing Nature’s Crossroads | George Vrtis and Christopher W. Wells
Part I. The Dynamics of Environmental Change: Cities, Commodities, Hinterlands
	1. A Tale of Two Waterfronts: Commerce, Industry, and the Environmental Transformation of Minnesota’s Twin Cities | Christopher W. Wells and George Vrtis
	2. Down to the Farm: Wheat Ecology and International Markets in Minnesota, 1850–1900 | Thomas Finger
	3. Competing Hinterlands: Saint Paul, Madison, and the Landscape of Burnett County, Wisconsin | David A. Lanegran
	4. Upstream, Downstream: The Flooding of Anishinaabe Lands by Upper Mississippi Dams | Michael D. McNally
	5. Making Stumps and Fields: Working Environments in the Woods and on the Cutover, 1890s–1930s | Kevin C. Brown
	6. “Follow the Arrows to the Arrowhead”: The Environment of Tourism in the Interwar Years | Aaron Shapiro
Part II: The Twin Cities and the Built Environment
	7. Fountains of Life and Death: A History of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul Water Supply Systems | John O. Anfinson
	8. Urban Environmental History and Loring Park: How Cultural Views of Nature Influenced Recreational Design | Karen Wellner
	9. “Awheel from Chicago to the Twin Cities”: Legacies of Turn-ofthe-Century Bicycle Paths in Minneapolis and Saint Paul | James Longhurst
	10. The Suburb of Minneapolis: Defining the City’s “Urban” Form | Robert S. Thompson
	11. The Campus as Watershed: Urban Sustainability and the Pedagogy of Place | Joseph Underhill
Part III: Environmental Politics, Thought, and Justice
	12. Monumental Encounters: The Politics of History, Conservation, and the Reconstruction of Grand Portage, 1922–1958 | Chantal Norrgard
	13. Pittsburgh’s Colony in Saint Paul’s Hinterland: Tensions over Environmentalism in Northeastern Minnesota’s Iron Range | Jeffrey T. Manuel
	14. A House Divided: The Minnesota Experimental City and Competing Narratives of Conservation | Todd A. Wildermuth
	15. Dissecting a Nation-Leading Legacy: The Minnesota Acid Rain Story | Gregory C. Pratt
	16. The Urban Roots of Militant Indian Protest: AIM’s Origins in the Twin Cities, 1968–1973 | William C. Barnett
	17. Radioactive Waste, Public Debate, and Environmental Justice at Prairie Island | James W. Feldman
Afterword: Minnesota’s Many Intersecting Crossroads | Kathleen A. Brosnan
Notes
List of Contributors
Index