Wisconsin Place Names

Author : Robert E. Gard
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870207083
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names written by Robert E. Gard and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The names of places lie upon the land and tell us where we are or where we have been or where we want to go. And so much more.”—From the introduction Fifty years ago, educator and writer Robert E. Gard traveled across Wisconsin, learning the trivial, controversial, and landmark stories behind how cities, counties, and local places got their names. This volume records the fruits of Gard’s labors in an alphabetical listing of places from every corner of Wisconsin, and the stories behind their often-unusual names. Gard’s work provides an important snapshot of how Wisconsin residents of a bygone era came to understand the names of their towns and home places, many of which can no longer be found on any map. Celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps introduces this reprint of Gard’s work, saying that in “some ways The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names is a reference book, a place where you can go to learn a little more about your home town. But in many ways it is much more than that, for it includes the stories of places throughout the state, submitted by the people who knew them. It is a book where story, people, and place all come together.”

Author : Edward Callary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780299309688
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place Names of Wisconsin written by Edward Callary and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wisconsin State Genealogical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Place Names written by Wisconsin State Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of Wisconsin Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert S. Rudolph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wood County Place Names written by Robert S. Rudolph and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a listing of the place names of Wood County Wisconsin, with explanations of their origins. The book is copyrighted by the University of Wisconsin Press, which retains all rights.

Author : Thomas Purnell
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299293335
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Talk written by Thomas Purnell and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. It has the greatest diversity of American Indian languages east of the Mississippi, including Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language family, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan family, and Oneida from the Iroquoian family. French place names dot the state's map. German, Norwegian, and Polish—the languages of immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—are still spoken by tens of thousands of people, and the influx of new immigrants speaking Spanish, Hmong, and Somali continues to enrich the state's cultural landscape. These languages and others (Walloon, Cornish, Finnish, Czech, and more) have shaped the kinds of English spoken around the state. Within Wisconsin's borders are found three different major dialects of American English, and despite the influences of mass media and popular culture, they are not merging—they are dramatically diverging. An engaging survey for both general readers and language scholars, Wisconsin Talk brings together perspectives from linguistics, history, cultural studies, and geography to illuminate why language matters in our everyday lives. The authors highlight such topics as: • words distinctive to the state • how recent and earlier immigrants have negotiated cultural and linguistic challenges • the diversity of bilingual speakers that enriches our communities • how maps can convey the stories of language • the relation of Wisconsin's Indian languages to language loss worldwide.

Author : Robert Edward Gard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Wisconsin Placenames written by Robert Edward Gard and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870209353
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the White Pine Was King written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From the ring of the ax in the woods, to the scream of the saw blade in the mill, to the founding of many of Wisconsin’s communities, Jerry Apps does an outstanding job bringing Wisconsin’s logging and lumbering heritage to life.”—Kerry P. Bloedorn, director, Rhinelander Pioneer Park Historical Complex For more than half a century, logging, lumber production, and affiliated enterprises in Wisconsin’s Northwoods provided jobs for tens of thousands of Wisconsinites and wealth for many individuals. The industry cut through the lives of nearly every Wisconsin citizen, from an immigrant lumberjack or camp cook in the Chippewa Valley to a Suamico sawmill operator, an Oshkosh factory worker to a Milwaukee banker. When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging: of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. He explores the aftermath of the logging era, including efforts to farm the cutover (most of them doomed to fail), successful reforestation work, and the legacy of the lumber and wood products industries, which continue to fuel the state’s economy. Enhanced with dozens of historic photos, When the White Pine Was King transports readers to the lumber boom era and reveals how the lessons learned in the vast northern forestlands continue to shape the region today.

Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299129842
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Names on Wisconsin's Map written by Virgil J. Vogel and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of place-names, primarily those names after American Indian tribes or individuals, including some historical information about each person or tribe.

Author : Carl Baehr
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milwaukee Streets written by Carl Baehr and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Milwaukee's eight hundred street names offer fascinating glimpses into the city's rich heritage; from French fur traders to Yankee speculators, from wealthy German tycoons of the Gay Nineties to African American leaders of the 20th century. In this unique book you can read about Tom Mason, who started a war that gave the Upper Peninsula to Michigan; the bitter six-year religious controversy sparked by the naming of Santa Monica Boulevard; "Uncle Jerry" Rusk, the man who gave the order that caused the "Bay View Massacre;" Willaim Merrill's ill-fated diamond mind in Waukesha County!