Once, a corner of northeast Minnesota was the center of the fur-trade universe.
Read story and trip tipsOn Lake Superior, an isolated peninsula yields up all sorts of riches.
Read story and trip tipsAcross the Upper Midwest, Civil War battle reenactments turn history into flesh and blood.
Read story and trip tipsEvery September, the Civil War comes to an old stagecoach inn in eastern Wisconsin.
Read story and trip tipsOn the south shore of the Straits of Mackinac, the year is 1775.
Read story and trip tipsA re-created pioneer home shows that life on the frontier wasn't quite as romantic as we think it was.
Read story and trip tipsAs outlaws discovered, this Minnesota college town is small but rarely sleepy.
Read story and trip tips150 years after a tragic conflict, a pilgrimage to the Minnesota River Valley yields facts but few answers.
Read story and trip tipsAt re-created forts, meet the adventurers who shaped the Upper Midwest.
Read story and trip tipsIn the southwest Minnesota town of Madelia, the Jesse James Gang met its match — again.
Read story and trip tipsOn the lush Minnesota, beautiful scenery comes with harsh history.
Read story and trip tipsFor better or worse, America's first emissary on the Upper Mississippi set history into motion.
Read story and trip tipsIn the southwest Wisconsin countryside, expert reenactors bring the misery of war home.
Read story and trip tipsGrand Rapids may not be the Emerald City, but its trees are green, and its lakes glitter.
Read story and trip tipsIn northern Minnesota, a rich deposit of ore brought the world running.
Read story and trip tipsA northwest Wisconsin resort town keeps a frontier art alive.
Read story and trip tipsSloops and schooners still sail on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.
Read story and trip tipsAt forts, fur posts and frontier homesteads in Minnesota and Wisconsin, kids can live like Laura Ingalls Wilder or Davy Crockett.
Read story and trip tipsYanks invaded Canada? Brits swarmed Wisconsin? It's the bicentennial of the war no one remembers.
Read story and trip tipsIn western Missouri, battle sites and reenactments open a window into a past that still chafes after 150 years.
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