Down From Basswood By Lynn Maria Laitala, cover illustration by Carl Gawboy. This is a colletion of startling, harsh, and true tales of life in northern Minnesota during the heyday of logging and mining. Meet the Native American family living on Basswood Lake who adopted a Finnish logger, farmers trying to make a living in rock country, mine captains and lawmen who took anything and anyone they wanted, immigrant miners forced to choose between jobs and justice, families facing starvation, and a few tough crusaders. Read this for the unromantic reality of settling the wilderness. Only the names have been changed. Old-timers in Ely remember who they really were. B237. $18.00