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Author : Peter Lawrence Scanlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Crawford County (Wis.)
ISBN : OCLC:989898147
Author : Peter Lawrence Scanlan
Publisher : Prairie Du Chien Year of the French Committee
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89067945170
Author : Mary Elise Antoine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439650219
From the day Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet entered the Mississippi River in 1673, fur traders, and then settlers, were drawn to Prairie du Chien. Red Bird and Black Hawk opposed American expansionism, while Zachary Taylor enforced the change. John Muir admired the majesty of the Mississippi River, and John Lawler accepted the challenge to bridge the waters. As people came to Prairie du Chien, generations worked to form a small, cohesive community. Some, like George and Dorothy Jeffers, Ralph and Albina Kozelka, Henry Howe, and Frank Stark, began businesses that descendants continue to operate. John Peacock and Mike Valley found a livelihood from the river. Art Frydenlund, Jim Bittner, and Fred LaPointe promoted and encouraged all to come. B.A. Kennedy and Jack Mulrooney created an outstanding educational and sports program. Peter Scanlan and Cal Peters recorded the rich history. Roy and Geraldine George established the George Family Foundation, and Morris MacFarlane led a movement to create scholarships. Lori Knapp helped disabled people without realizing her impact. Politician Patrick Lucey and cowgirl Elaine Kramer gained national recognition. All these people and others, like Dr. T.F. Farrell and Robert Garrity, were neighbors. Their stories fill these pages.
Author : Mary Elise Antoine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0738583561
Just above the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers lies a 9-mile prairie whose beauty and location have long drawn people to its expanse. At this traditional gathering place of Native Americans, French explorers and fur traders stored trade goods and celebrated on the prairie, in time building homes at la Prairie des Chiens. American soldiers constructed a fort here, at the entrance to the upper Mississippi Valley, to secure the region for settlement. Wave upon wave of people arrived in Prairie du Chien by steamboat and railroad, and by 1900, a bustling city had spread across the plain. But the French heritage and majestic beauty of the river endured. After World War I, tourists came to drift along the banks of the Mississippi, climb the steep bluffs surrounding the prairie, and sample the Friday night fish fries. Wisconsin's second-oldest community, Prairie du Chien retains the attraction that drew the first explorers to its shores.
Author : Richard H. Zeitlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981*
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : WISC:89102827326
Author : Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0252069242
Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, French Roots in the Illinois Country creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersected with economic and social issues ranging from the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans to the significance of the different mentalities of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans.
Author : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052864
Great Lakes Creoles offers the history of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, from the perspective of its Native Amerian and French founders, as they endured the Anglo-American colonization in the 19th century.
Author : Patricia Kenney Geyh
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1931279012
A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031029697
Author : Peter Shrake
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870207419
In The Silver Man: The Life and Times of John Kinzie, readers witness the dramatic changes that swept the Wisconsin frontier in the early and mid-1800s, through the life of Indian agent John Harris Kinzie. From the War of 1812 and the monopoly of the American Fur Company, to the Black Hawk War and the forced removal of thousands of Ho-Chunk people from their native lands—John Kinzie’s experience gives us a front-row seat to a pivotal time in the history of the American Midwest. As an Indian agent at Fort Winnebago—in what is now Portage, Wisconsin—John Kinzie served the Ho-Chunk people during a time of turbulent change, as the tribe faced increasing attacks on its cultural existence and very sovereignty, and struggled to come to terms with American advancement into the upper Midwest. The story of the Ho-Chunk Nation continues today, as the tribe continues to rebuild its cultural presence in its native homeland. Through John Kinzie’s story, we gain a broader view of the world in which he lived—a world that, in no small part, forms a foundation for the world in which we live today.
Author : Reginald Horsman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082621052X
Reginald Horsman provides the first modern, scholarly biography of a colorful backwoods doctor, William Beaumont, whose pioneering research on human digestion gained him international renown as a physiologist.
Author : Linda M. Waggoner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496218094
The epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho-Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as "Princess Red Wing," St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre-Hollywood and early studio-system era in the United States. Today St. Cyr is known for her portrayal of Naturich in Cecile B. DeMille's The Squaw Man (1914); although DeMille claimed to have "discovered the little Indian girl," the viewing public had already long adored her as a petite, daredevil Indian heroine. She befriended and worked with icons such as Mary Pickford, Jewell Carmen, Tom Mix, Max Sennett, and William Selig. Born on the Winnebago Reservation in 1884 and orphaned in 1888, she spent ten years in Indian boarding schools before graduating from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1902. She married James Young Johnson, and in 1907 the couple reinvented themselves as the stage personas "Princess Red Wing" and "Young Deer," performing in Wild West shows around New York and beginning their film careers. As their popularity grew, St. Cyr and Johnson decamped from the East Coast and helped establish the second motion picture company in Southern California, where Red Wing became a Native American leading lady in westerns until her career waned in 1917. After returning to the reservation to work as a housekeeper, she took her show on a two-year tour to educate the public about Native culture and lived out her life in New York, performing, educating, and crafting regalia. Starring Red Wing! is a sweeping narrative of St. Cyr's evolution as America's first Native American film star, from her childhood and performance career to her days as a respected elder of the multi-tribal New York City Indian Community.
Author : Nicole St-Onge,Carolyn Podruchny,Brenda Macdougall
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806146348
What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such questions inform this collection of essays on the northwestern North American people of mixed European and Native ancestry who emerged in the seventeenth century as a distinct culture. Volume editors Nicole St-Onge, Carolyn Podruchny, and Brenda Macdougall go beyond the concern with race and ethnicity that takes center stage in most discussions of Metis culture to offer new ways of thinking about Metis identity. Geography, mobility, and family have always defined Metis culture and society. The Metis world spanned the better part of a continent, and a major theme of Contours of a People is the Metis conception of geography—not only how Metis people used their environments but how they gave meaning to place and developed connections to multiple landscapes. Their geographic familiarity, physical and social mobility, and maintenance of family ties across time and space appear to have evolved in connection with the fur trade and other commercial endeavors. These efforts, and the cultural practices that emerged from them, have contributed to a sense of community and the nationalist sentiment felt by many Metis today. Writing about a wide geographic area, the contributors consider issues ranging from Metis rights under Canadian law and how the Library of Congress categorizes Metis scholarship to the role of women in maintaining economic and social networks. The authors’ emphasis on geography and its power in shaping identity will influence and enlighten Canadian and American scholars across a variety of disciplines.
Author : Mark Wyman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253334144
From French coureurs de bois coursing through its waterways in the seventeenth century to the lumberjacks who rode logs down those same rivers in the late nineteenth century, settlers came to Wisconsin's frontier seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their guns, pots, blankets, and other trade items. The settlers' frontier produced a state with enormous ethnic variety, but its unruliness worried distant governmental and religious authorities, who soon dispatched officials and missionaries to help guide the new settlements. By 1900 an era was rapidly passing, leaving Wisconsin's peoples with traditions of optimism and self-government, but confronting them also with tangled cutover lands and game scarcities that were a legacy of the settlers' belief in the inexhaustible resources of the frontier.
Author : Timothy R. Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 052164092X
Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West. It traces the efforts of waves of Americans to transmit their social structures, behavior, and values to the West and construct a distinctive regional middle-class culture on the urban frontier. Intertwining local, regional, and national history with social, immigration, gender and urban history, Mahoney examines how a succession of settlers from "good" society--farmers, entrepreneurs, professionals, and "genteel" men and women from the urban East--interacted with, accommodated, and compromised with those already there to construct a middle-class society.
