David Backes

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This article is about the author. For the NHL player, see David Backes (hockey player)

David Backes (born May 14, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American author and teacher, best known for writing a biography of Sigurd F. Olson. The book, entitled A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson, won the Small Press Book Award for 1998 [1], and received a positive review in the New York Times [2].

Backes is currently a professor in the Mass Communication and Journalism department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

[edit] Works

  • Spirit of the North: The Quotable Sigurd F. Olson
  • The Meaning of Wilderness: Essential Articles and Speeches of Sigurd F. Olson.
  • Canoe Country: An Embattled Wilderness
  • The Wilderness Companion
  • A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson

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