Jerry Apps

When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780870209345
• ISBN-10: 0870209345
• Artikelnr.: 59919448

Autorenporträt

Jerry Apps was born and raised on a central Wisconsin farm. He is a former county extension agent and professor emeritus for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Today he works as a rural historian, full-time writer, and creative writing instructor. Jerry is the author of more than forty fiction, nonfiction, and children's books with topics ranging from barns, one-room schools, cranberries, cucumbers, cheese factories, and the humor of mid-America to farming with horses and the Civilian Conservation Corps. He and his wife, Ruth, have three grown children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. They divide their time between their home in Madison and their farm, Roshara, in Waushara County.