Atlantis
in Wisconsin: New Revelations About the Lost Sunken City
by Frank Joseph
Paperback: 204 pages
Galde Press, Inc.; ISBN: 1880090120; (December 1995)
Special Order
Birds
of Wisconsin : Field Guide
by Stan Tekiela
Breweries of Wisconsin
by Jerry Apps
Listed under Brewing
Chippewa Treaty Rights: The Reserved Rights of Wisconsin's Chippewa
Indians in Historical Perspective
by Ronald N. Satz, et al
Listed under Chippewa Indians
Double
Take: A Rephotographic Survey of Madison, Wisconsin
by Zane Williams
Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press
Book Published: 04 December, 2002
The
Golden Age of Wisconsin: Auto Racing
by Dale Grubba
(Paperback)
Firestorm
at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
by William Lutz, Denise Gess
Book Description: A riveting account of a monster firestorm -- the
rarest kind of catastrophic fire -- and the extraordinary people who survived
its wrath.
On October 8, 1871 -- the same night as the Great Chicago Fire -- an
even deadlier conflagration was sweeping through the lumber town of Peshtigo,
Wisconsin, 260 miles north of Chicago. The five-mile-wide wall of flames,
borne on tornado-force winds of 100 miles per hour, tore across more than
2,400 square miles of land, obliterating Peshtigo in less than one hour
and killing more than 2,000 people.
Firestorm at Peshtigo places the reader at the center of the blow-out.
Through accounts of newspaper publishers Luther Noyes and Franklin Tilton,
lumber baron Isaac Stephenson, parish priest Father Peter Pernin, and meteorologist
Increase Lapham -- the only person who understood the unusual and dangerous
nature of this fire -- Denise Gess and William Lutz re-create the story
of the people, the politics, and the place behind this monumental natural
disaster, delivering it from the lost annals of American history.
Drawn from survivors' letters, diaries, interviews, and local newspapers,
Firestorm at Peshtigo tells the human story behind America's deadliest
wildfire.
Hardcover from Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
Book Published: 02 August, 2002
From Far North Norway
by Eunice Kanne, Maurice Crownhart (Editor)
Listed under Wisconsin Genealogy
The
Garden Book for Wisconsin
by Melinda Myers
The
Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
by Glenway Wescott, Sargent Bush
"The Grandmothers is made out of thick, rich layers of human problems
and personalities. To read The Grandmothers is to be washed by waves of
cleansing pity."-Harry Salpeter, New York World, 1927
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press
Book Published: 01 May, 1996
The
Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account
by Peter Pernin
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press
Book Published: May, 1999
History
Just Ahead: A Guide to Wisconsin's Historical Markers
by Sarah Davis McBride
Paperback from State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Book Published: October, 1999
Indians
from New York in Wisconsin & Elsewhere: A Genealogy Reference
by Toni J. Prevost
Images
of Faith: The Churches of Kewaunee County
by Mary Haegele
Indian
Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal
by Patty Loew
Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Book Published: 15 November, 2001
Indian
Mounds of Wisconsin
by Robert A. Birmingham, Leslie E. Eisenberg
Paperback from University of Wisconsin Press
Book Published: 23 November, 2000
Lost
Pyramids of Rock Lake: Wisconsins Sunken Civilization
by Frank Joseph
Paperback from Galde Press, Inc.
Book Published: June, 1992
The
Making of Milwaukee
by John Gurda
Hardcover from Milwaukee County Historical Society
Book Published: 01 December, 1999
Native
American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and
Change
by Robert E. Bieder
(Paperback - May 1995)
New
Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin
by Jo Ann Koltyk, Nancy Foner
Paperback from Pearson Allyn & Bacon
Book Published: 23 July, 1997
Old
Peninsula Days: Tales and Sketches of the Door County Peninsula
by Hjalmar Rued Holand
The Oneida Indian Journey: From New York to Wisconsin, 1784-1860
by L. Gordon McLester, et al.
Listed under Oneida Indians
Progressive
Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance
by Warrington Colescott, Arthur Hove
(Hardcover - November 1999)
Stalag
Wisconsin: Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps
by Betty Cowley
Paperback from Badger Books Inc./ Waubesa Press
Book Published: 24 January, 2002
Six Generations Here: A Farm Family Remembers
by Marjorie L. McLellan, Kathleen Neils Conzen
Listed under Wisconsin Genealogy
The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War: The Biography of a
Regiment
by William J. K. Beaudot
Listed under Civil War
Wisconsin
Wildflowers
Of Wisconsin
by Stan Tekiela
Wisconsin
Death Trip
by Michael Lesy, Warren Susman (Preface)
The last decade of the 19th century was, for some Americans, a time
when great fortunes were to be made. For many others, however, the period
was a time of economic dislocation, when the gap between city and countryside,
rich and poor, grew ever wider. As the Indian Wars ended and the Gilded
Age extended into America's first Imperial Age, social critics such as
Mark Twain and William Dean Howells began to examine the dark side of the
American dream: violence, poverty, degenerate behavior, suicide, and insanity.
In the late 1960s, another desperate time, historian Michael Lesy took
a long look at fin-de-siècle America. Examining a collection of several
thousand glass plate negatives and historical documents from Jackson County,
Wisconsin, he concocted a sprawling treatise on a past that had been willfully
forgotten, a brooding rejoinder to Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon
River Anthology. First published in 1973, Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip,
now reissued in a handsome paperbound edition, became a key text of the
counterculture, a book to shelve alongside Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
and Custer Died for Your Sins--and it sometimes reads like a hip product
of its time. Lesy documents the unsettling record of one small corner of
rural America, turning up accounts of barn burnings, attacks by gangs of
armed tramps, threatening and obscene letters, death by diphtheria and
smallpox (the Wisconsin townsfolk had, some years, to attend several funerals
a week), alcoholism, madness, business and bank failures, and even a case
or two of witchcraft.
After reading Lesy's texts and viewing the sometimes unsettling images
he's turned up, you would be forgiven for thinking that no one in small-town
Wisconsin in our great-great-grandparents' time was well-adjusted--which
is, of course, not the case. Hyperbole notwithstanding, this is a remarkable
study, one that Lesy himself rightly calls an experiment in both history
and alchemy. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Paperback: 264 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.63 x
8.51 x 11.09
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; (April 2000)
ISBN: 0826321933
The
Wisconsin Frontier (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier)
by Mark Wyman
Hardcover from Indiana University Press
Book Published: September, 1998
Wisconsin
Indians
by Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Francis Paul Prucha
Paperback from Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Book Published: 15 January, 2002
Wisconsin
Lighthouses: A Photographic & Historical Guide
by Ken Wardius, Barb Wardius, Elaine Wardius
Paperback from Prairie Oak Press
Book Published: June, 2000
Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches
by Ellen Kort, et al
Listed under Quilting
Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels In and
Around the Badger State
by Doris Green
Listed under Caving
Wisconsin's
Past and Present: A Historical Atlas
by Wisconsin Cartographers' Guild, Wisconsin Cartographers Guild, William
Cronon
Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press
Book Published: November, 1998
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