Weird Wisconsin
Title | Weird Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | Linda S. Godfrey |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Ghosts |
ISBN | 0760759448 |
Phillips, Wisconsin
Title | Phillips, Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | Phillips Centennial Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Phillips (Wis.) |
ISBN |
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Wisconsin State Gazetteer and Business Directory
Title | R. L. Polk & Co.'s Wisconsin State Gazetteer and Business Directory PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1930 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Wisconsin |
ISBN |
Wingshooter's Guide to Wisconsin
Title | Wingshooter's Guide to Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | Mickey Johnson |
Publisher | Wilderness Adventures Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fowling |
ISBN | 1885106866 |
The Caverlys of New Hampshire to the Phillips of Wisconsin
Title | The Caverlys of New Hampshire to the Phillips of Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Charles Phillips |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Registers of births, etc |
ISBN |
Weird U.S.
Title | Weird U.S. PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Moran |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2009-05 |
Genre | Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | 9781402766886 |
Covering all 50 states, "Weird U.S." takes an unconventional look at the oddities, outcasts, and just plain strange things to see or do in America.
Wisconsin Land and Life
Title | Wisconsin Land and Life PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Clifford Ostergren |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780299153540 |
Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.