Books from Wisconsin Historical Society
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Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan, With More Than 100 Logging Camp Tales
By Michael EdmondsIt describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever.
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Main Street Ready-Made: The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin
By Arnold R. Alanen, Joseph A. EdenThe New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin Arnold R. Alanen, Joseph A. Eden ... 12T racy Rohzon, “New Deal Architecture Faces Bulldozer,” New York Times, 8 February 2009, citing Robert Karo. See Robert Karo, The Power Broker: Robert ...
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On the Hunt: The History of Deer Hunting in Wisconsin
By Robert C Willging18 9 days One legal buck, plus Hunter's Choice/bonus 684,944 398,0023 1996 Nov. ... 17 9 days One legal buck, plus Hunter's Choice/bonus 643,172 402,5633 October youth hunt and December herd control hunt 1 Otis S. Bersing, ...
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Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds: A Settlers’ Fortification of the Black Hawk War
By Robert A. BirminghamLife, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds is an archaeological detective story illuminating the lives of white settlers in the lead-mining region during the tragic events of the historically important conflict known as the Black Hawk ...
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Old Abe the War Eagle: A True Story of the Civil War And Reconstruction
By Richard ZeitlinAfter a week of pursuing bridge-burning Confederate irregulars, Old Abe's regiment joined with four others and formed a brigade under Colonel William P. Carlin of the Thirty-Eighth Illinois Infantry. Carlin's brigade marched from Pilot ...
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"When is Daddy Coming Home?": An American Family During World War II
By Richard Carlton HaneyWhile Dad was in airborne training at Camp Chiseldon, the disastrous British-American offensive in the Arnhem, Holland, region began. He reassured Mom in a letter on September 18, 1944, that his 17th Airborne Division was safe in ...
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Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success
By Jerold W. Apps56 Ringlingville USA In 1892 the Ringling Brothers commissioned a new bell wagon, shown here in a parade that August in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Photo by C.J. Van Schaick; Black River Falls Historical Society of other hotels is ...
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Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit
By Benjamin Buchholz... Nathan Alexander Specialist Appleton, WI Schmuhl, Patrick Steven Specialist Fond du Lac, WI Morris, Travis James Sergeant Shawano, WI Schneidewend, Dean Alan Specialist Oshkosh, WI Mulvey, Terry Lee Sergeant Oshkosh, WI Schroeder, ...
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Putting Down Roots: Gardening Insights from Wisconsin’s Early Settlers
By Marcia C. Carmichael“Der Garten als Hausapotheke,”1'lcker- und Gartenbau-Zeitung (September 15, 1889), 3344335, cited byJames William Miller, "German Heirloom Gardening Research Report” (Old World Wisconsin unpublished manuscript, February 2002), 125. 6.
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People of the Sturgeon: Wisconsin's Love Affair with an Ancient Fish
By Kathleen Schmitt Kline, Ronald M. Bruch, Frederick P. Binkowski... 1 73 Menominee Reservation, 1 76 Meyers, Lee, vii Michigan, sturgeon conservation efforts in, 265772 Mielke, Don, ... for scientific management, 192, 220, 243, 245 Neumueller,jerry, 93, 93, 109 Nichols, Phebe jewell, 175 Nickles, ...
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Ship Captain's Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes
By Ann Michler LewisThrough her mother's stories and remarks, Lewis also reveals insights into the trials and rewards of being a ship captain's wife. The book is enhanced by the author's vintage snapshots, depicting this bygone lifestyle.
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The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
By Robert SilbernagelIn The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior, Silbernagel deepens our understanding of this era with stories of resilient, remarkable people.
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Irish in Wisconsin
By David G. HolmesResource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.
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Vintage Wisconsin Gardens: A History of Home Gardening
By Lee SomervilleIn Vintage Wisconsin Gardens, Lee Somerville introduces readers to the region’s ornamental gardens of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showcasing the “vernacular” gardens created by landscaping enthusiasts for their own ...
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Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories: Our Veterans Remember
By Jennifer M. Miller, Sarah A. LarsenThe stories in these pages expand beyond the borders of the war to include personal accounts of the events leading up to it, as well as the experiences of veterans as they return home to civilian life at the height of antiwar protest.
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Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History
By Scott SpoolmanThese stories connect geologic processes to the current landscape, as well as to the evolution of flora and fauna and development of human settlement and activities, for a deeper understanding of our state’s natural history.
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Native People of Wisconsin, Revised Edition
By Patty LoewBased on her research for her award-winning title for adults, "Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Survival," author Patty Loew has tailored this book specifically for young readers.
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Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century
By Matthew J. PriggeThese stories are the orphans of Milwaukee's history, too unusual to register in broad historic narratives, too strange to qualify as nostalgia, but nevertheless essential to our understanding of this American city.
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The War of 1812 in Wisconsin: The Battle for Prairie du Chien
By Mary Elise AntoineThis is the story of the battle for the control of Prairie du Chien and the western country, which began many years before the three-day siege in July of 1814 for which the Battle of Prairie du Chien is named.
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This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home
By John ZimmThis Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home tells this other side of the story.