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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032699444
Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : 0299309681
Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0299129845
List of place-names, primarily those names after American Indian tribes or individuals, including some historical information about each person or tribe.
Author : Donald J. Orth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : OSU:32435071647663
Author : Robert E. Gard
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870207082
“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 : United States Board on Geographical Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1934-07
Category : Geography
ISBN : UCAL:$B810694
Author : Fred G. Alberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : IND:30000044942955
Author : United States Board on Geographical Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Geography
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU03483606
Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : IND:30000090579362
Author : Virgil J. Vogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608204803
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;"Of all the states of the American union, none has a name that has been spelled in more ways, or interpreted more variously, than Wisconsin.nbsp; Among the spellings listed are Mesconsin, Meskousing, Mishkonsing, Ouisconsens, Ouisconsin, Ouisconsing, Ouiscousing, Ouiskonsin, Owisconsing, Quisconsing, Weeskonsan, Wisconsan, Wisconsin, Wishkonsing, and Wiskonsin.nbsp; The name has been attributed to the French, Menominee, Ojibwa, Potawatami, Sauk-Fox, and Winnebago languages." nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Place names are cultural artifacts that tell us as much about how people lived as do relics dug from the ground, writes Virgil Vogel, one of America's foremost authorities on place names.nbsp; They are historical records from which the location and migration of people, plants, and animals can be charted.nbsp; Onalaska and Aztalan, not surprisingly, are place names transplanted to Wisconsin from the far north and south.nbsp; Some names tell of topographic features that have long since disappeared or are little noticed today.nbsp; Beaver Dam once had an Indian name meaning just that; Sheboygan, "big pipe" in Ojibwa, described the shape of a river bend.nbsp; Other names are vestiges of ancient languages nowhere else recorded.nbsp; Some commemorate historic events:nbsp; Winneconne is believed by many to mean "place of the skulls." nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;The Indian names of Wisconsin's towns, rivers, and lakes reveal the minds of the Indian peoples, their cosmic views, their values, their relation to their environment , and their ways of life and convey as well something of the history of their white invaders. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Virgil Vogel's thirty years of research into Native American influence on geographical names has resulted in an absorbing account that illuminates the history and culture of Wisconsin Indians.nbsp; Vogel tells his story thematically—names from the spirit world, names of trails and portages, French-Indian personal names, tribal names, and so on—to show that place names are part of a larger cultural and natural world.nbsp; In recovering the history and meaning of these names, he has restored an important and colorful part of America's heritage.
Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0299309649
An alphabetical reference to the origins of names for more than 2,000 Wisconsin communities, counties, and towns. Entertaining and impeccably researched.
Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110178170
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Geography
ISBN : UCR:31210012997423
Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Geography
ISBN : UOM:39015078276873
Author : Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Names, Geographical
ISBN : UCSD:31822028494276