Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Fish Stories

2. Boats in the Backyard

3. The Mepps Story

4. Trouting on the Brule: An 1875 Fishing Expedition to Northern Wisconsin and Michigan

5. Lost Outboard Recovered after Seventy Years

6. Carl Marty's Northernaire: A Special Place in Time

7. Hazen's Long Lake Lodge

8. First Resorts: Teal Lake Lodge

9. Mel's Trading Post

10. Pastika's Sport Shop: Ninety Years of Muskies and Minnows

11. Duke's Outboards: A Northwoods Institution

12. The Rhinelander Boat Company

13. Waterfowl Hunting with Live Decoys

14. Spring Duck Hunting in the 1800s

15. An Old Dog for a New Century: The History of the American Water Spaniel

16. The Armistice Day Storm: The Winds of Hell

17. One Day in March 1933

18. Ike's First Vacation to the Wisconsin Northwoods

19. The Summer White House on the Brule

20. Murder at Pelican Lake

21. Trapping in the Blood: The Carl Schels Story

22. Remembering the State Fur Farm

23. “Le Portage” and the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway

24. Pioneer Bits and Pieces

25. Charles Comiskey and the Northwoods

26. The Wisconsin White Pine That Built a New York University

Notes

Index

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