Christopher Hommerding

Christopher Hommerding is a historian of US LGBTQ history and holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in the Public Historian, in the Annals of Iowa, and on the history of sexuality blog Notches. He is the recipient of a 2019 Minnesota Historical Society Legacy Research Fellowship.

Minnesota conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer worked to protect the Boundary Waters

By Christopher Hommerding

Nov. 18, 2019

In the summer of 1909, Oberholtzer had his so-called “3,000-mile summer.” His goal was to travel the major canoe routes of the Rainy Lake watershed.