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Wide ranging investigations into American social history have shied away from analysis of most sports. Even stranger, given the energy which has been expended on America as a land of immigrants, is the failure of ethnic historians of Scandinavian communities to recognize the skisport as a major contribution to their new land.1 Historians of sport, the latest brand of social historians, have favored baseball and summer sports. Very few have taken a look at winter activities. There is only one study of skiing in the Northwest, and that is mostly concerned with the Hemmetsveit brothers and Minnesota.2 Yet it is the state of Michigan which holds a special place where the skisport~as skiing was called a hundred or so years ago-is concerned. In Michigan townships |
