Oshkosh Looking Back

Author : Ron La Point
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1457566710
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oshkosh: Looking Back written by Ron La Point and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the history of sports in Oshkosh. It includes stories of basketball, baseball, football, bowling and golf and by those who played the game. It is also about the past, a time slowly receding in our memories. The story of the Oshkosh All Stars is the featured story. It was our own professional basketball team that brought home the World Professional Basketball Championship in 1942. It’s also a story of Lonnie Darling and its featured player, Leroy “Lefty” Edwards. Edwards was considered the best player of his time and helped carry the name of Oshkosh throughout the country. There other story lines as well. Oshkosh has a long history of amateur and professional baseball and those stories are an integral part of the book as is the city’s bowling history and three of its finest performers. The current controversy over the land usage on the city’s municipal golf course sold recently to the Oshkosh Truck Corporation leads to a number of stories about the history of the Lakeshore Golf Course and the impact it has had on many who played there. Oshkosh is not Green Bay but has its own football story. The book features the Oshkosh Comets and four from our city who played for the Green Bay Packers. A book on the history of Oshkosh sports would be incomplete without including two resident Olympians. Their stories, unknown to many, are told here.

Author : John Livingstone
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418455091
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Being from Oshkosh written by John Livingstone and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a depression-wracked small Wisconsin city, John Livingstone, craving adventure, escaped to the outside world by enlisting in the U.S. Army. He became "a tiny cog in a well-oiled killing machine," General Patton's Third Army. At war's end in Europe he faced another set of adversaries: deserters and black marketeers as an army criminal investigations agent in London and Paris. Three tumultuous years followed at the University of Wisconsin, culminating in a B.A. in International Relations and an invitation to join the Central Intelligence Agency in June, 1950. After a year-long bout with the Polish language at Presidio of Monterey, California, Livingstone served as an intelligence officer in Central Europe. In 1954 he returned to civilian life and established a photography and public relations business in Carmel. In 1967 he earned a master's degree in Spanish Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Residence and travel in Europe from 1969 on enabled him to amass an extensive collection of documentary photos of the life and times of the people of Europe, resulting in a retrospective exhibition, "Fifty Years Behind the Lens" which included prize-winning prints previously exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and the Pentagon. A pictorial book captioned in five languages, Carmel by Itself - Portrait of a Unique American Community by John Livingstone was published in 1982. Livingstone is presently completing a manuscript for a book entitled Katyusha and Grisha, the Liaison of Catherine the Great and Potemkin.

Author : Randy R. Domer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781638374220
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Seems Like Only Yesterday written by Randy R. Domer and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local author and historian Randy Domer offers another look back at Oshkosh's historic past. It Seems Like Only Yesterday will lead you on a journey in and around Oshkosh with incredible stories. Re-live the horrible events that claimed lives and destroyed Oshkosh's Beckwith House and the aftermath that ensued. Learn about the son of a locally famous candy maker who earned fame as an escape artist. Witness the tragedy of a terrible train wreck and the heartbreak as children of a pioneer family in Eureka dealt with the unexpected loss of both parents. Travel back in time to visit Nordheim, learn about Dummy Hoy's incredible journey through Oshkosh to the major leagues, and listen to the Englund siblings talk about their famous father, Gene Englund. Join us now as we take another journey back in time with It Seems Like Only Yesterday.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michelle Lokken
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467105228
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oshkosh written by Michelle Lokken and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named after Chief Oshkosh in 1839, Oshkosh became an established city in 1853. In its early days, Oshkosh was Wisconsin's second-largest city and the lumber capital of the world. Along with familiar Main Street views, the postcard images in this book reveal Oshkosh's forgotten sites of the past such as Electric Park, Alexian Brothers Hospital, and Northern Hospital Zoo. Many of the city's iconic sites that still stand today are also featured, including the Oshkosh Public Library, the Grand Opera House, and the Oshkosh Public Museum. This postcard collection presents a unique historical record of Oshkosh.

Author : Michael J. Goc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oshkosh at 150 written by Michael J. Goc and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mike Yurk
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665554738
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Other Waters written by Mike Yurk and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The places we fish and people we are with takes us on new adventures in Mike Yurk’s latest book, Other Waters. Follow Mike as he takes you from Costa Rico to catch marlin, to Mexico for sailfish and big bass to Canada’s Northwest Territories fishing for giant lake trout. In between are other waters; streams, rivers, ponds and lakes both big and small forming memorable fishing with unforgettable companions. There are two trout streams in northern Wisconsin from Mike’s youth to years later two other steams in North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains. Rivers such as Wisconsin’s Wolf and Fox Rivers fishing in his early years with his father and grandfather brings us to the Mississippi River today fishing with buddies near his home in northwestern Wisconsin. Another river in Missouri takes us on legendary float fishing one of Ozarks premier waters. Go trout fishing in a military training area in Germany where the weather is always challenging. Two small ponds in Alabama as well as a large impoundment lake teaches Mike about bass fishing. Join Mike during the winter when he fishes through the ice on several Wisconsin lakes. Another Wisconsin lake never disappoints with both muskies and bass. There are other waters close to his home, fishing for smallmouth bass in Lake Superior, walleyes in northern Minnesota and largemouth bass and panfish at a lake known simply as Lake X to protect its identity. Exploring other waters bring both successes and disappointments along with new sights and sounds. As important as the waters Mike fishes are those who join him on these travels and ventures along with the people he meets while fishing other waters. Other Waters is book of people and places and adventures and fishing, making a lifetime of memories.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 108 pages
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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erika Janik
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870204734
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Wisconsin written by Erika Janik and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover Wisconsin history from the very beginning. A Short History of Wisconsin recounts the landscapes, people, and traditions that have made the state the multifaceted place it is today. With an approach both comprehensive and accessible, historian Erika Janik covers several centuries of Wisconsin's remarkable past, showing how the state was shaped by the same world wars, waves of new inhabitants, and upheavals in society and politics that shaped the nation. Swift, authoritative, and compulsively readable, A Short History of Wisconsin commences with the glaciers that hewed the region's breathtaking terrain, the Native American cultures who first called it home, and French explorers and traders who mapped what was once called "Mescousing." Janik moves through the Civil War and two world wars, covers advances in the rights of women, workers, African Americans, and Indians, and recent shifts involving the environmental movement and the conservative revolution of the late 20th century. Wisconsin has hosted industries from fur-trapping to mining to dairying, and its political landscape sprouted figures both renowned and reviled, from Fighting Bob La Follette to Joseph McCarthy. Janik finds the story of a state not only in the broad strokes of immigration and politics, but also in the daily lives shaped by work, leisure, sports, and culture. A Short History of Wisconsin offers a fresh understanding of how Wisconsin came into being and how Wisconsinites past and present share a deep connection to the land itself.