Author: James Elliott Jones
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Category : Wisconsin Dells (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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A Description of a Noted Western Summer Resort
Author: James Elliott Jones
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Category : Wisconsin Dells (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Publisher:
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Category : Wisconsin Dells (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Wisconsin Land and Life
Author: Robert Clifford Ostergren
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299153540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
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.
Picturing Indians
Author: Steven D. Hoelscher
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299226046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep gorges and fantastic rock formations, H. H. Bennett turned his camera upon the Ho-Chunk, and thus began the many-layered relationship. The interactions between Indian and white man, photographer and photographed, suggested a relationship in which commercial motives and friendly feelings mixed, though not necessarily in equal measure.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299226046
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep gorges and fantastic rock formations, H. H. Bennett turned his camera upon the Ho-Chunk, and thus began the many-layered relationship. The interactions between Indian and white man, photographer and photographed, suggested a relationship in which commercial motives and friendly feelings mixed, though not necessarily in equal measure.
The Lincoln Library of Essential Information an Up to Date Manual for Daily Reference, for Self Instruction, and for General Culture Named in Appreciative Remembrance of Abraham Lincoln, the Foremost American Exemplar of Self Education
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 2316
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 2316
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A System of Modern Geography, Comprising a Description of the Present State of the World and Its Five Great Divisions
Author: Samuel Augustus Mitchell
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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A System of Geography, Comprising a Description of the Present State of the World and Its Five Great Divisions
Author: Samuel Augustus Mitchell
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Lincoln Library of Essential Information
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Western Teacher
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Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of Entomology
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The Florida Fern Caterpillar
Author: Albert Franklin Burgess
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Category : Aleurodes
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Category : Aleurodes
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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