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Author Cary, Bob

Title Root Beer Lady : the Story of Dorothy Molter
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Contents Contents; The Discovery; Moving North; Living off the Land; Nightingale of the Wilderness; Winter the Hard Way; The "Loneliest Woman"; The Snowmobile Era; Dorothy's Angels; Bruno, Brunella & Family; Winter Letters; Neighbors, Wise and Otherwise; Cap; Ice-cold Root Beer; The Knife Lake War; The Final Chapter; Epilogue
Summary An ice-cold glass of root beer and a warm welcome greeted thousands of weary paddlers who stopped at the Isle of Pines to meet Dorothy Molter, the courageous, independent woman who became a North Woods legend. Bob Cary, Dorothy's longtime friend, captures her life and spirit in Root Beer Lady
Notes Print version record
Subject Molter, Dorothy, 1907-1986.
SUBJECT Molter, Dorothy, 1907-1986 fast
Subject Natural history -- Minnesota -- Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Natural history
SUBJECT Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) -- Biography
Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.) -- History
Subject Minnesota -- Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816695096
0816695091