Download or read book Down from Basswood written by Lynn Maria Laitala and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down from Basswood is set in the boundary waters of northern Minnesota and Ontario. Three generations of characters narrate interrelated stories which together tell a history of the place from the beginning of industrial logging and mining at the turn of the twentieth century to the legislation that created the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in 1978.