Tales Of Old Prairie Du Chien

Author : Marianne Luban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979824428

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Tales of Old Prairie Du Chien by Marianne Luban Pdf

Prairie du Chien, the second oldest settlement in the state of Wisconsin, is permeated with history. In fact, the past often seems stronger than the present. Being there is like navigating between two dimensions. Just where does the past end? Is it ever really over? Pieces of it can still be seen and touched. It's not altogether an illusion. The stories of those who once lived at Prairie du Chien, gleaned from dusty old volumes and yellowed newspaper clippings, are fascinating. There are beautiful girls and their dashing officers, colorful fur traders, and widows with more money than luck. There are seemingly successful merchants struggling with inner demons and other citizens who managed to become legends in their own lifetimes, some of those being extraordinarily long. The 19th Century was not an easy period in which to exist, especially on a frontier where there were still hostile Indians and lawless neighbors too willing to settle scores with a gun.

Author : Marianne Luban
Publisher : Pacific Moon Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0972952497

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Tales of Old Prairie Du Chien by Marianne Luban Pdf

Prairie du Chien, the second oldest settlement in the state of Wisconsin, is permeated with history. In fact, the past often seems stronger than the present. Being there is like navigating between two dimensions. Just where does the past end? Is it ever really over? Pieces of it can still be seen and touched. It's not altogether an illusion. The stories of those who once lived at Prairie du Chien, gleaned from dusty old volumes and yellowed newspaper clippings, are fascinating. There are beautiful girls and their dashing officers, colorful fur traders, and widows with more money than luck. There are seemingly successful merchants struggling with inner demons and other citizens who managed to become legends in their own lifetimes, some of those being extraordinarily long. The 19th Century was not an easy period in which to exist, especially on a frontier where there were still hostile Indians and lawless neighbors too willing to settle scores with a gun.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : English fiction
ISBN : BL:A0017509459

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Parlour Tales, and Stories, selected from the Old Series of “Chambers's Journal.” by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chambers's journal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600057719

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Parlour tales and stories, selected from the old ser. of 'Chambers's journal'. by Chambers's journal Pdf

Author : Mary Elise Antoine,Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870207600

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Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien by Mary Elise Antoine,Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Pdf

Albert Coryer, the grandson of a fur trade voyageur-turned-farmer, had a gift for storytelling. Born in 1877, he grew up in Prairie du Chien hearing tales of days gone by from his parents, grandparents, and neighbors who lived in the Frenchtown area. Throughout his life, Albert soaked up the local oral traditions, including narratives about early residents, local landmarks, interesting and funny events, ethnic customs, myths, and folklore. Late in life, this lively man who had worked as a farm laborer and janitor drew a detailed illustrated map of the Prairie du Chien area and began to write his stories out longhand, in addition to sharing them in an interview with a local historian and folklore scholar. The map, stories, and interview transcript provide a colorful account of Prairie du Chien in the late nineteenth century, when it was undergoing significant demographic, social, and economic change. With sharp historical context provided by editors Lucy Eldersveld Murphy and Mary Elise Antoine, Coryer’s tales offer an unparalleled window into the ethnic community comprised of the old fur trade families, Native Americans, French Canadian farmers, and their descendants.

Author : Richard H. Zeitlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981*
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : WISC:89102827326

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Prairie Du Chien by Richard H. Zeitlin Pdf

Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547575849

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Stories of the Badger State by Reuben Gold Thwaites Pdf

"Stories of the Badger State" by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Marty Dyrud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Prairie du Chien Region (Wis.)
ISBN : WISC:89067945204

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History Talks from Prairie Du Chien by Marty Dyrud Pdf

Author : Candice Gaukel Andrews
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1931599718

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Great Wisconsin Winter Weekends by Candice Gaukel Andrews Pdf

Ski, slide, skate, snowmobile ? then find some hot cocoa and a crackling fireplace. That's the surefire cure for cabin fever, and here's your guide to winter weekend excitement throughout the Badger State. Twenty-one complete itineraries show you what to see and do, and where to eat and sleep. Includes listings of winter festivals statewide.

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802151728

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The Shawl and Prairie Du Chien by David Mamet Pdf

"The Shawl" is about a small-time mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance. In "Prairie du Chien" a railroad car is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide punctuated by the camaraderie of a friendly card game exploding into a moment of menace.

Author : Lucy Eldersveld Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052864

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Great Lakes Creoles by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy Pdf

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 : Mary Elise Antoine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0738583561

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Prairie Du Chien by Mary Elise Antoine Pdf

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 Zeitlin
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206276

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Old Abe the War Eagle by Richard Zeitlin Pdf

The story of Old Abe, the bald eagle that became the mascot of the Eighth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. It is also the story of the men among whom Old Abe lived: the farmers, loggers, clerks, and immigrants who flocked to the colors in 1861. Reissued in 2012 with a new cover.

Author : Peter Lawrence Scanlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0966800400

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Prairie Du Chien by Peter Lawrence Scanlan Pdf

The story of Prairie du Chien is the history of the Mississippi Frontier in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Native Americans gathered on the prairie to engage in the fur trade, French explorers built a fort to house the furs and trade goods, British traders and American soldiers competed and battled for control of the prairie, and here Black Hawk surrendered in 1832. Though written in 1937, "Prairie du Chien: French, British, American" still stands as the most definitive work on Wisconsin's second oldest community. Republished by the Prairie du Chien Historical Society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010125214

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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Anonim Pdf