Badger Boneyards

Author : Dennis McCann
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870204858
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Badger Boneyards written by Dennis McCann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bodies are buried, but the stories are not. From the ornate tombs of Milwaukee beer barons to displaced Chippewa graves and miniscule family plots, Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story unearths the stories of Wisconsin. Football great John Heisman is buried here, as is the state's smallest man, a woman whose tombstone names her murderer, and the boy who would not tell a lie and paid the price. Even in a graveyard, peace proves hard to come by: Wisconsin's Native American tribes have fought for undisturbed grounds and proper burial. A patch of Belgian graves now resides beneath a parking lot while the headstones cluster nearby, and the inhabitants of a Bayfield cemetery were unearthed by a raging flood. Sometimes the dead are recalled with only a first name, and sometimes no name at all. Following the clues in tips from readers, unusual epitaphs, and well-worn stones, Dennis McCann finds the melancholy, the humorous, the tragic, and the universal in Wisconsin's cities of the dead.

Author : Michael Bie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762794410
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Mysteries of Wisconsin written by Michael Bie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Badger State Was Joe Davis, Civil War veteran and Menominee Indian, really the son of Confederate president Jefferson Davis? What really happened the night that banker H. C. Mead was murdered inside the Exchange Bank of Waupaca? Did a flying saucer really land in Joe Simonton’s yard, and did the aliens aboard ask for a jug of water and serve him pancakes? From pirate ships to pancakes from outer space, Myths and Mysteries of Wisconsin makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state’s most fascinating and compelling stories.

Author : Dennis McCann
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870209329
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisconsin Story written by Dennis McCann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisconsin Story: 150 People, Places, and Turning Points that Shaped the Badger State offers readers engaging vignettes about everything Wisconsin. From portraits of significant figures like Robert and Belle La Follette, Golda Meir, and Edna Ferber, to stories of important events like the Black Hawk War, 1960s campus protests, and oleo smuggling, The Wisconsin Story takes readers on a fun and informative ride all across the Badger State. Where was Calvin Coolidge’s summer White House? What was the “anti-corset resolution?” And why was a cow named Ollie milked on an airplane? Award-winning newspaper columnist Dennis McCann’s talent for distilling complex subjects into brief stories that pack a punch makes this collection the perfect answer to the question “what makes Wisconsin, Wisconsin?”

Author : Dennis McCann
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205862
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Superior Place written by Dennis McCann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin’s smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is today and how it came to be. Abundantly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, This Superior Place showcases, as author Dennis McCann writes, “a community where the past was layered with good times and down times, where natural beauty was the one resource that could not be exhausted by the hand of man, and where history is ever present.” Because Bayfield serves as “the gateway to the Apostle Islands,” the book also includes chapters on the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Madeline Island, and the nearby Red Cliff Ojibwe community. It also covers the significant eras in the city’s history: lumbering, quarrying, commercial fishing, and the advent of the orchards visitors see today. It is not a guidebook as such but more of a visual and written tour of the city and the major elements that came together to make it what it is. Colorful stories from the past, written in Dennis McCann’s casual, humorous style, give a sense of the unique characters and events that have shaped this charming city on the lake.

Author : Dennis McCann
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870207857
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Storied River written by Dennis McCann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Storied River, longtime journalist Dennis McCann takes us on an intimate tour of the Upper Mississippi—from Dubuque, Iowa, to the Minnesota headwaters, and dozens of places in between. Far more than a travel guide, This Storied River celebrates the Upper Mississippi’s colorful history and the unique role the river has played in shaping the Midwest.

Author : Milo Milton Quaife
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Magazine of History written by Milo Milton Quaife and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of the Badger State written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wayde Bulow
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781469735504
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Badger written by Wayde Bulow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badger is about two young brothers who loose their family farm and are taken in by a Frontiersman who takes them west to the far mountains to trap for the winter. One brother becomes injured and the Frontiersman is forced to leave them at an Indian village. Tragedy strikes and the Indians name one brother Badger. The young man learns how to survive in the harsh land from his Indian friends. Following the Frontiersman into the mountains, he learns how to trap beaver and other furs while trying to stay alive. Slowly he surpasses his teacher and becomes the Mountain Man of his dreams.

Author : Ben M. Baglio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Badger in the Basement written by Ben M. Baglio and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Scott Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tale of Benny Badger written by Arthur Scott Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: