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Book Wisconsin Land and Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Clifford Ostergren
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780299153540
  • Pages : 588 pages

Download or read book Wisconsin Land and Life written by Robert Clifford Ostergren and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolling green hills dotted with Holstein cows, red barns, and blue silos. The Great Lakes ports at Superior, Ashland, and Kenosha. A Polish wedding dance or a German biergarten in Milwaukee. The dappled quiet of the Chequamagon forest. A weatherbeaten but tidy town hall at the intersection of two county trunk highways. Ojibwa families gathering wild rice into canoes. The boat ride through the Dells. The upland ridges of the Driftless Area, falling away into hidden valleys. . . . These are images of Wisconsin's land and life, images that evoke a strong sense of place. This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes. To read it is to come away with a sweeping view of Wisconsin's geography and history: the glaciers that carved lakes and moraines; the soils and climate that fostered the prairies and great northern pine forests; the early Native Americans who began to shape the landscape and who established forest trails and river portages; the successive waves of Europeans who came to trade in furs, mine for lead and iron, cut the white pines, establish farms, work in the lumber and paper mills, and transform spent wheatfields into pasture for dairy cattle. Readers will learn, too, about the platting and naming of Wisconsin's towns, the establishment of county and township governments, the growth of urban neighborhoods and parishes, the role of rivers, railroads, and religion in shaping the state's growth, and the controversial reforestation of the cutover lands that eventually transformed hardscrabble farms and swamps into a sportsman's paradise. Abundantly illustrated with photos and maps, this book will richly reward anyone who wishes to learn more about the land and life of the place we know as Wisconsin.

Book The History of Wisconsin  Volume IV

Download or read book The History of Wisconsin Volume IV written by John D. Buenker and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Wisconsin's Sesquicentennial year, this fourth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the twenty tumultuous years between the World's Columbian Exposition and the First World War when Wisconsin essentially reinvented itself, becoming the nation's "laboratory of democracy." The period known as the Progressive Era began to emerge in the mid-1890s. A sense of crisis and a widespread clamor for reform arose in reaction to rapid changes in population, technology, work, and society. Wisconsinites responded with action: their advocacy of women's suffrage, labor rights and protections, educational reform, increased social services, and more responsive government led to a veritable flood of reform legislation that established Wisconsin as the most progressive state in the union. As governor and U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was the most celebrated of the Progressives, but he was surrounded by a host of pragmatic idealists from politics, government, and the state university. Although the Progressives frequently disagreed over priorities and tactics, their values and core beliefs coalesced around broad-based participatory democracy, the application of scientific expertise to governance, and an active concern for the welfare of all members of society-what came to be known as "the Wisconsin Idea."

Book The Settlement and Present Distribution of Population in Wisconsin

Download or read book The Settlement and Present Distribution of Population in Wisconsin written by Guy-Harold Smith and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning Report

Download or read book Planning Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comprehensive Dissertation Index  1861 1972  Geography and geology

Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861 1972 Geography and geology written by Xerox University Microfilms and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Dissertations in Geography  1901 to 1969

Download or read book A Bibliography of Dissertations in Geography 1901 to 1969 written by Clyde E. Browning and published by Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, Department of Geography. This book was released on 1970 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Farm Landscape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Maitland Gyrisco
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Farm Landscape written by Geoffrey Maitland Gyrisco and published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of the architecture and archaeology of farmsteads and settlement in Wisconsin and in the areas of origin of its settlers in the United States and Europe.

Book The History of Wisconsin  The progressive era  1893 1914

Download or read book The History of Wisconsin The progressive era 1893 1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urban Influences Upon Frontier and Commercial Agriculture

Download or read book Urban Influences Upon Frontier and Commercial Agriculture written by Michael P. Conzen and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community

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  • Author : Gene F. Summers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Community written by Gene F. Summers and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exchange Bibliography

Download or read book Exchange Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: