In 1928, Justine Kerfoot arrived, a Northwestern University graduate headed for medical school until her family lost both their Illinois homes in the stock market crash. Thrust into year-round life at her mother's fledgling summer resort, Justine was confronted with learning survival in the frigid north woods, a challenge she met with extraordinary verve and recounts with great candor and humor. 

Adventures of Bill Callies as a Minnesota Conservation Officer from 1960 to 1980 in Waskish, Crosby-Ironton, Orr and Baudette.

Fifty years ago, Joan Crosby and her husband, Dick, moved from the Minneapolis suburbs to spend the winter on the outskirts of the BWCAW in a primitive one-room cabin without road access or modern conveniences. She baked pies in a Dutch oven well Dick kept the woodpile topped up. They heard the wolves howl and the loons call, watchef the seasons change, entertained occasional visitors-invited or not-and made periodic trips across two laked and a connecting...