Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Recollections of a long life, 1829-1915,
Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Isaac Stephenson (1829-1918) followed his interests as a lumberman, sailor, and entrepreneur to Bangor, Maine and, later, to the northern woods of Wisconsin. In 1858, he purc... More
Mackinac register of baptisms and internments, 1695-1821
"Translation from a transcript of the original, which latter is kept in the parish church of Ste. Anne, at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this arti... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
The planting of the Swiss colony at New Glarus, Wis
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Journal of an Episcopalian missionary's tour to Green Bay, 1834
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Episcopalianism in Wisconsin, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. Madison, 1898.
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an account of the lead and co...
This detailed travelogue, the concluding part of a two-volume work written primarily for a British readership, discusses the United States' geological resources and offers critical observations about the manner... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Fur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815
"From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Northern Wisconsin, a hand-book for the homeseeker,
This guide, compiled under the direction of the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, champions the economic promise of Wisconsin's northern counties for potential settlers in the 1... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
A rare Wisconsin book, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Describes Cole's search for a reprint of a selection of laws of Michigan Territory in force in Wisconsin Territory, as directed by a 1938 resolution of the Wisconsin legislature. Also available in digital form ... More
Documents relating to the Catholic Church in Green Bay, and the missio...
Compiled by Reuben G. Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Fur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815
"From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Northern Wisconsin, a hand-book for the homeseeker,
This guide, compiled under the direction of the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, champions the economic promise of Wisconsin's northern counties for potential settlers in the 1... More
Diary of one of the original colonist of New Glarus, 1845
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900.
Surveying in Wisconsin, in 1837
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Some Wisconsin Indian conveyances, 1793-1836
"Deeds, leases, and treaties, executed by Wisconsin Indians prior to 1836 ... selected from the manuscripts in possession of this society, or ... copied from the books of the Brown County register of deeds, at ... More
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825) is found in vol. 20 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
La Follette's autobiography; a personal narrative of political experie...
The autobiography of Robert La Follette (1855-1925) traces the political life and accomplishments of this eminent Republican politician from his election as district attorney for Dane County, Wisconsin in 1880 ... More
Recollections of a long life, 1829-1915,
Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Isaac Stephenson (1829-1918) followed his interests as a lumberman, sailor, and entrepreneur to Bangor, Maine and, later, to the northern woods of Wisconsin. In 1858, he purc... More
A rare Wisconsin book, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Describes Cole's search for a reprint of a selection of laws of Michigan Territory in force in Wisconsin Territory, as directed by a 1938 resolution of the Wisconsin legislature. Also available in digital form ... More
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lak...
This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditiona... More
How Wisconsin came by its large German element
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Early schools in Green Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Documents covering the period from 1817 to 1832 selected from the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers in possession of the Society.
The Cornish in southwest Wisconsin
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lak...
This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditiona... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Early schools in Green Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Documents covering the period from 1817 to 1832 selected from the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers in possession of the Society.
Missions on Chequamegon Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
An English officer's description of Wisconsin in 1837
From the author's A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions. Philadelphia, 1839. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part o... More
Pioneering in the Wisconsin lead region
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900.
Dickson and Grignon papers, 1812-1815
"Supplement the Lawe and Grignon papers published in vol. X, Wisconsin historical collections, pp. 94-121." Edited by Reuben Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The planting of the Swiss colony at New Glarus, Wis
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Report on the quality and condition of Wisconsin Territory, 1831
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Narrative of Peter J. Vieau : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Surveying in Wisconsin, in 1837
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The story of my boyhood and youth,
John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about... More
A merry Briton in pioneer Wisconsin; a contemporary narrative reprinte...
This volume is the last five chapters of a longer travel account, Life in The West: Back-wood Leaves and Prairie Flowers: Rough Sketches on the Borders of the Picturesque, the Sublime, and Ridiculous. Extracts ... More
Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest
This book recounts the experiences of a young, genteel wife adjusting to the military life and frontier conditions of life at Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in the early 1830s. She describes her perilous journeys b... More
Early schools in Green Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Documents covering the period from 1817 to 1832 selected from the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers in possession of the Society.
Narrative of Peter J. Vieau : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825) is found in vol. 20 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Fifty years in the Northwest. With an introduction and appendix contai...
William Henry Carman Folsom (1817-1900), Minnesota legislator, businessman, and historian, emigrated from Maine to the Upper Midwest when he was nineteen years old. There he lived the rest of his life, achievin... More
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
How Wisconsin came by its large German element
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
A preliminary railroad survey in Wisconsin, 1857,
Drawing on the author's diary, this narrative chronicles Andrew McFarland Davis's experiences as a member of an 1857 surveying expedition for a projected line of the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad from Portage,... More
Narrative of Morgan L. Martin : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of: Reminiscences of Morgan L. Martin, 1827-1887. Madison, 1888.
Papers from the Canadian archives, 1767-1814
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. The papers printed in v. 12 of the Collections are from the Haldimand collection and cover the period 1767-1814, while v. 11 has papers dealin... More
Reminscences of a pioneer missionary,, Flanders
The author of these memoirs, Chrysostom Verwyst, was an immigrant from North Brabant, Holland, who arrived in Boston in 1848 at the age of seven. His family had migrated with a group of fellow Catholics who had... More
Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lak...
This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditiona... More
The planting of the Swiss colony at New Glarus, Wis
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1892.
Northern Wisconsin, a hand-book for the homeseeker,
This guide, compiled under the direction of the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, champions the economic promise of Wisconsin's northern counties for potential settlers in the 1... More
An English officer's description of Wisconsin in 1837
From the author's A diary in America, with remarks on its institutions. Philadelphia, 1839. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part o... More
Some Wisconsin Indian conveyances, 1793-1836
"Deeds, leases, and treaties, executed by Wisconsin Indians prior to 1836 ... selected from the manuscripts in possession of this society, or ... copied from the books of the Brown County register of deeds, at ... More
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...
This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More
Early schools in Green Bay, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Documents covering the period from 1817 to 1832 selected from the Grignon, Lawe and Porlier papers in possession of the Society.
Narrative of Peter J. Vieau : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A summer holiday. A brief description of some of the most popular summ...
This promotional pamphlet provides brief descriptions of popular tourist destinations along the Upper Midwestern route of the Chicago and North-Western Railway in 1884. The Michigan communities of Escabana, Gog... More
Journal of an Episcopalian missionary's tour to Green Bay, 1834
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Episcopalianism in Wisconsin, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. Madison, 1898.
Notable men of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This book is a photographic roster of several hundred of Wisconsin's most prominent male citizens at the time of publication in 1902. The oval head-portraits are displayed four to a page, accompanied by the sub... More
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The first portion of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817) is found in vol. 19 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Reminscences of a pioneer missionary,, Flanders
The author of these memoirs, Chrysostom Verwyst, was an immigrant from North Brabant, Holland, who arrived in Boston in 1848 at the age of seven. His family had migrated with a group of fellow Catholics who had... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
Trouting on the Brulé River, or, Lawyers' summer-wayfaring in the nor...
Trouting on the Brule River is a literary account of genteel sportsmen's fishing expeditions during the summers of 1875 and 1877. Originally published in the Chicago Sunday Times and the Chicago Sunday Tribune,... More
The boundaries of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
The Cornish in southwest Wisconsin
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1898.
Mackinac register : 1725-1821, register in the parish of Michilimackin...
"Translation from a copy of the original in possession of the parish church of Ste. Anne at Mackinac." Title from volume title page. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Mackinac re... More
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Documents relating to the Catholic Church in Green Bay, and the missio...
Compiled by Reuben G. Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Notable men of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
This book is a photographic roster of several hundred of Wisconsin's most prominent male citizens at the time of publication in 1902. The oval head-portraits are displayed four to a page, accompanied by the sub... More
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825) is found in vol. 20 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Dickson and Grignon papers, 1812-1815
"Supplement the Lawe and Grignon papers published in vol. X, Wisconsin historical collections, pp. 94-121." Edited by Reuben Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The boundaries of Wisconsin, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 1910
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1888. Includes bibliographical references.
Diary of one of the original colonist of New Glarus, 1845
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society. Madison, 1900.
The story of my boyhood and youth,
John Muir (1838-1914), whose writings about the natural world have shaped the conservation and environmental movements for more than a century, wrote this autobiographical account near the end of his life about... More
Memories of early Wisconsin and the gold mines,
John Barber Parkinson's memoir begins with reminiscences about life in southern Wisconsin from the late 1830s through the early 1850s, before turning to an account of the eighteen-year old Parkinson's overland ... More
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Documents relating to the Catholic Church in Green Bay, and the missio...
Compiled by Reuben G. Thwaites. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Reminscences of a pioneer missionary,, Flanders
The author of these memoirs, Chrysostom Verwyst, was an immigrant from North Brabant, Holland, who arrived in Boston in 1848 at the age of seven. His family had migrated with a group of fellow Catholics who had... More
Long, long ago, by Clara Clough Lenroot
This is a short, anecdotal reminiscence of a mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin girlhood, written over fifty years later. Clara Clough Lenroot grew up in the country, as well as the towns of Hudson, Osceola Mills... More
Northern Wisconsin, a hand-book for the homeseeker,
This guide, compiled under the direction of the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, champions the economic promise of Wisconsin's northern counties for potential settlers in the 1... More
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1803-04
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Includes bibliographical references.
Radisson and Groseilliers in Wisconsin
Accounts of the third and fourth voyages of Radisson transcribed from manuscripts in the Bodlein Library and the British Museum. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Journal of an Episcopalian missionary's tour to Green Bay, 1834
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part of Early Episcopalianism in Wisconsin, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. Madison, 1898.