The Wisconsin Frontier

The Wisconsin Frontier

by Mark Wyman
The Wisconsin Frontier

The Wisconsin Frontier

by Mark Wyman

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Overview

From 17th-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the 19th century, Wisconsin's frontier era saw thousands arriving from Europe and other areas seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their guns and other trade items. This captivating history reveals the conflicts, the defeats, the victories, and the way the future looked to Wisconsin's peoples at the beginning of the 20th century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253223326
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 02/23/2011
Series: A History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier
Pages: 360
Sales rank: 664,814
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Mark Wyman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Illinois State University. He is author of several books, including Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880–1930 and Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xix

1 The French Open a Frontier 1

2 Before the Europeans 18

3 Frenchmen and Indians 38

4 An Arena for International Competition 66

5 Struggle over the Upper Lakes 97

6 Miners, Indian Wars, and a Frontier Transformed 127

7 Rush to the Land 157

8 An Ethnic and Religious Jumble 185

9 Restricting the Indian Domain 215

10 Logging the Pineries 246

11 Legacies 279

Essay on Sources 298

Index 327

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