Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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ISBN: 9781420314823
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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392 pages with 86 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Vernon County, Wisconsin, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 7100 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 52 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1840s31 1850s4293 1860s1247 1870s1073 1880s267 1890s98 1900s39 1910s3 1920s3 1930s1 1940s38 1950s2 1990s1 What Cities and Towns are in Vernon County, Wisconsin (and in this book)? Avalanche, Bloomingdale, Bud, Chaseburg, Coon Valley, Dilly, Esofea, Fargo, Folsom, Genoa, Greenwood, Hillsboro, La Farge, Liberty, Liberty Pole, Mount Tabor, Newry, Newton, Ontario, Pleasant Valley, Purdy, Readstown, Red Mound, Retreat, Rockton, Romance, Ross, Springville, Stoddard, Sugar Grove, Trippville, Valley, Victory, Viroqua, West Prairie, Westby, White City

Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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Category : Family
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Gregory Alan Boyd
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: John Galligan
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1982110716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this “dark beauty of a novel” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) about the first female sheriff in rural Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, as she searches for a missing girl, battles local drug dealers, and seeks the truth about the death of her parents twenty years ago—all as a winter storm rages in her embattled community. Fifteen years ago, Heidi White’s parents were shot to death on their Bad Axe County farm. The police declared it a murder-suicide and closed the case. But that night, Heidi found the one clue she knew could lead to the truth—if only the investigators would listen. Now Heidi White is Heidi Kick, wife of local baseball legend Harley Kick and mother of three small children. She’s also the interim sheriff in Bad Axe. Half the county wants Heidi elected but the other half will do anything to keep her out of law enforcement. And as a deadly ice storm makes it way to Bad Axe, tensions rise and long-buried secrets climb to the surface. As freezing rain washes out roads and rivers flood their banks, Heidi finds herself on the trail of a missing teenaged girl. Clues lead her down twisted paths to backwoods stag parties, derelict dairy farms, and the local salvage yard—where the body of a different teenage girl has been carefully hidden for a decade. As the storm rages on, Heidi realizes that someone is planting clues for her to find, leading her to some unpleasant truths that point to the local baseball team and a legendary game her husband pitched years ago. With a murder to solve, a missing girl to save, and a monster to bring to justice, Heidi is on the cusp of shaking her community to its core—and finding out what really happened the night her parents died. With “striking prose, engaging characters, and a searing story of crimes rooted in the heartland,” Bad Axe County is a “darkly irresistible thriller” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) that you won’t be able to put down.

Author: Wisconsin. Department of Transportation
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Patty Loew
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870205943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican, Ho-Chunk, and Brothertown Indians. Author Patty Loew focuses on oral tradition—stories, songs, the recorded words of Indian treaty negotiators, and interviews—along with other untapped Native sources, such as tribal newspapers, to present a distinctly different view of history. Lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, Indian Nations of Wisconsin is indispensable to anyone interested in the region's history and its Native peoples. The first edition of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2002 Outstanding Book Award.