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Article: Coming home: hunting squirrels and tigers with the Hmong.
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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The view from Five Mile Bluff on the west bank of the Chippewa River in Wisconsin extends beyond five miles, so that looking down the gunsights of the valley one sees across a vast canopy of swamp white oak, soft maple, basswood, and river birch to where tangled bottomland forest gives way to open hayfields and prim white farmhouses with matching barns and the tall Harvestore silos known as "big blues." It is a vista of the kind that kept landscape artists of the nineteenth century busy illustrating such themes as the marriage of wilderness and cultivation or, on a loftier level, a young nation's limitless possibilities. Above its mouth, the Chippewa River splits into ...
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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);
March 14, 2007 ;
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... ... week's thaw brings to mind two great floods of the 1880s. In 1880, melting snow and spring rain abruptly filled the Chippewa River to a level 17 feet above normal. An avalanche of logs stored along its banks swept down river, taking out dams, bridges ...
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