The Chippewa: Biography of a Wisconsin Waterway - Richard D. Cornell

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Résumé :
Richard D. Cornell traveled the Chippewa River from its two sources south of Ashland to where it joins the Mississippi. In repeated visits over several decades, Cornell learned the stories of the Chippewa and its valley, from the Ojibwe and early fur traders and lumbermen to the varied and hopeful communities of today. Through his conversations with ordinary people and local historians, he gets at the heart of the Chippewa and shares a history of the river that is both one of a kind and deeply personal.

Biographie:

Richard D. Cornell wrote the 2006 Wisconsin Magazine article Knights of the Spike-soled Shoe: Lumbering on the Chippewa, and co-wrote with Jerry Poling the news feature Greats of the Gridiron, about the undefeated 1906 Eau Claire High School football team. He also self-published the memoir Finding My Father, about his quest to learn about his father, who was killed in World War II when Rich was thirteen months old.