Purgatory Ridge
William Kent Kreuger
Pocket, Mar 2001, 23.95, 368 pp.
ISBN: 0671047531
Near Aurora, Minnesota, a major environmental-industrial dispute exists. The Anishinaabe tribe wants the two hundred acres of great white pines that are sacred to them as "Old Grandfathers" protected from the lumber industry. Karl Lindstrom's lumber mill resides on the edge of the forest and he is not known for his conservation methods. As is the case in many local arguments, o...
