Fork handle—$.65 Mash for chickens—$7.15 One milk pail—$1.15 Horse collar and pad—$8.15 Gloves for Herm—$.52 "Chores started on the home farm when you were around four years old, depending on, as Pa would say, ‘how much meat you have on your bones.’. . . " So begins Jerry Apps’s "Every Farm Tells a Story," a collection of true tales inspired by entries in his ...

Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Written By: Jerold Apps

At the height of the Depression, the government put thousands of writers to work for the Works Progress Administration. Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions of each state in the nation.   The WPA Guide to Wisconsin offers a lively tour of yesterday’s Badger State. More than a ...

Manufacturer: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Written By: Federal Writers Project

Madison is richly detailed, fully documented, inclusive in coverage, and delightfully readable. More than 300 illustrations provide a vivid feeling for what life was like in Madison during the formative years. David Mollenhoff's unique interpretive framework, emphasizing public policies and community values, gives the book a consistent interpretive quality and reveals major themes ...

Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
Written By: David V. Mollenhoff

From mining to logging to farming, Finns played an important role in the early development of Wisconsin. Although their immigration to the state came later than that of most other groups, their contributions proved just as significant. This newly revised and updated book traces the history of Finnish settlement in Wisconsin, from the large concentrations of Finns in the northern region, to ...

Manufacturer: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Written By: Mark Knipping

Robert Nesbit's classic single-volume history of Wisconsin was expanded by Wisconsin State Historian William F. Thompson to include the period from 1940 to the late 1980s, along with updated bibliographies and appendices.

Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
Written By: Robert Carrington Nesbit, William F. Thompson

From French coureurs de bois coursing through its waterways in the seventeenth century to the lumberjacks who rode logs down those same rivers in the late nineteenth century, settlers came to Wisconsin's frontier seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their guns, pots, blankets, and other trade ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Mark Wyman

Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
Written By: Meridel Le Sueur

"In the year 2001, you will not see a single horse on Broadway, New York; only autos will be seen. The people of the Earth will be in close communication with Mars by being shot off in great cannons." -Arthur Palm, age 14 years, Milwaukee, 1901 One hundred years ago, Americans celebrated the beginning of a new century. Yesterday's Future gathers nearly one hundred excerpts-some wildly ...

Manufacturer: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Written By: Michael E. Stevens

Sarsa boards, yodeling, lutefisk, cooperatives, kringle, and shrines--legacies of Old World ways. A delightful survey of the ethnic traditions of Old World homes and the peoples who settled Wisconsin. First published in 1944, it is a "must read" for amateur historians, cultural history buffs, and anyone interested in one of the Heartland's true melting pots.

Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
Written By: Fred L. Holmes

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Written By: Arnold Clarence Otto