Pioneers of Superior, Wisconsin
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780915709243
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Author:
Publisher: x
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780915709243
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Author: Helen Marie Wolner
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Published: 1939
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edith Johannah Ruth
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael E. Stevens
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2018-09-19
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 087020890X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the mid-1830s through the 1850s, more than a half million people settled in Wisconsin. While traveling in ships and wagons, establishing homes, and forming new communities, these men, women, and children recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and newspaper articles. In their own words, they revealed their fears, joys, frustrations, and hopes for life in this new place. The Making of Pioneer Wisconsin provides a unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of these early settlers, as they describe what it felt like to be a teenager in a wagon heading west or an isolated young wife living far from her friends and family. Woven together with context provided by historian Michael E. Stevens, these first-person accounts form a fascinating narrative that deepens our ability to understand and empathize with Wisconsin’s early pioneers.
Author: Ronald V. Mershart
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Published: 200?
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Agnes Lynch
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lillian Kimball Stewart
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jerry Apps
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2020-08-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0870209353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.
Author: Ethel McLaughlin Turner
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathleen Ernst
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0870207156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life." --Jerry Apps, author of "Old Farm: A History" and "Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist's Memoir" "A Settler's Year" provides a rare glimpse into the lives of early immigrants to the upper Midwest. Evocative photographs taken at Old World Wisconsin, the country's largest outdoor museum of rural life, lushly illustrate stories woven by historian, novelist, and poet Kathleen Ernst and compelling firsthand accounts left by the settlers themselves. In this beautiful book, readers will discover the challenges and triumphs found in the seasonal rhythms of rural life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As they turn the pages--traveling from sprawling farm to tidy crossroads village, and from cramped and smoky cabins to gracious, well-furnished homes--they'll experience the back-straining chores, cherished folk traditions, annual celebrations, and indomitable spirit that comprised pioneer life. At its heart "A Settler's Year" is about people dreaming of, searching for, and creating new homes in a new land. This moving book transports us back to the pioneer era and inspires us to explore the stories found on our own family trees.