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Guide to the Draper Manuscripts

Josephine L Harper

• Paperback | Engels
• In the mid-nineteenth century the Wisconsin Historical Society's first director, Lyman C. Draper, gathered outstanding materials such as the Daniel Bo... Lees meer

Les Paul

Bob Jacobson

• Paperback | Engels | Badger Biographies
• This addition to the Badger Biographies series for young readers tells the story of Les Paul, the legendary "Wizard of Waukesha," who pioneered the so... Lees meer

Harley and the Davidsons

Pete Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | Badger Biographies
• This addition to the Badger Biographies series tells the story of four young inventors who shared a dream: to create the best motorized bicycle in Ame... Lees meer

Walking Home Ground

Robert Root

• Paperback | Engels
• When longtime author Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin, he gets to know his new home by walking the same terrain traveled by th... Lees meer

Aztalan

Robert A Birmingham, Lynne Goldstein

• Paperback | Engels
• Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west ... Lees meer

Women's Wisconsin

• Paperback | Engels
• Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium , a women's history anthology published on Women's Equality Day 2005, made history a... Lees meer

The Heart of Things

John Hildebrand

• Hardcover | Engels
• "I've never believed that living in one place means being one thing all the time, condemned like Minnie Pearl to wear the same hat for every performan... Lees meer

Hunting Camp 52

John Marvin Hanson

• Paperback | Engels
• Meet the Jolly Boys--five men from northern Wisconsin who built a deer hunting shack in 1955 and established a tradition that has now lasted over six ... Lees meer

Every Farm Tells a Story

Jerry Apps

• Paperback | Engels
• Jerry Apps details the virtues and hardships of rural living. "Do your chores without complaining. Show up on time. Do every job well. Always try to d... Lees meer

Seventh Generation Earth Ethics

Patty Loew

• Hardcover | Engels
• Wisconsin's rich tradition of sustainability rightfully includes its First Americans, who along with Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Gaylord Nelson shape... Lees meer

The Chippewa

Richard D Cornell

• Paperback | Engels
• Inspired by August Derleth's seminal book The Wisconsin, Richard D. Cornell traveled the Chippewa River from its two sources south of Ashland to where... Lees meer

Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids

Terese Allen, Bobbie Malone

• Hardcover | Engels
• What are some food favorites in Wisconsin, and why are they special to us? How have our landscape and the people who have inhabited it contributed to ... Lees meer

Damn the Old Tinderbox!

Matthew J Prigge

• Paperback | Engels
• In the dead of an unassuming January night in 1883, Milwaukee's Newhall House hotel was set on fire. Two hours later, the building--once among the tal... Lees meer

The Wisconsin Story

Dennis McCann

• Paperback | Engels
• The Wisconsin Story: 150 People, Places, and Turning Points that Shaped the Badger State offers readers engaging vignettes about everything Wisconsin.... Lees meer

The War of 1812 in Wisconsin

Mary Elise Antoine

• Hardcover | Engels
• In The War of 1812 in Wisconsin , author Mary Elise Antoine brings a little-known corner of Wisconsin's history to life. Prairie du Chien, located jus... Lees meer

The Birdman of Koshkonong

Martha Bergland

• Paperback | Engels
• Thure Kumlien was one of Wisconsin's earliest Swedish settlers and an accomplished ornithologist, botanist, and naturalist in the mid-1800s, though hi... Lees meer

La Pointe

Hamilton Nelson Ross

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Wisconsin Historical Society Press has republished a long-out-of-print classic of Wisconsin history, "La Pointe: Village Outpost," by Hamilton Nel... Lees meer

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 10

Kaminski

• Hardcover | Engels | Ratification of the Constitution | nr. 10
• The debate over the Constitution reached a climax in Virginia during June 1788 as a closely divided Convention vigorously debated the merits of the ne... Lees meer

Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie Du Chien

• Hardcover | Engels
• Albert Coryer, the grandson of a fur trade voyageur-turned-farmer, had a gift for storytelling. Born in 1877, he grew up in Prairie du Chien hearing t... Lees meer

Milwaukee in the 1930s

• Paperback | Engels
• What would it be like to take an intensive tour of Milwaukee as it was during the late 1930s--at the confluence of the Great Depression, the New Deal,... Lees meer

Mai Ya's Long Journey

Sheila Terman Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Badger Biographies
• The story of Mai Ya Xiong and her family and their journey from the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Madison, Wisconsin, is extraor... Lees meer

We've Been Here All Along

R Richard Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels
• The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin, We've Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wiscons... Lees meer

Mineral Point

George Fiedler

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1827, almost overnight, the lead-bearing region of southwestern Wisconsin was flooded by English-speaking miners and settlers who founded the settl... Lees meer

The Silver Man

Peter Shrake

• Paperback | Engels
• In The Silver Man: The Life and Times of John Kinzie , readers witness the dramatic changes that swept the Wisconsin frontier in the early and mid-180... Lees meer