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Category : Dane County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns
Author: Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns
Author: William J ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dane County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Dane County Place-Names
Author: Frederic G. CassidyPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029923293X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Dane County Place-Names is an entertaining record of the heritage of Dane County, Wisconsin’s capital region, from its earliest days through the 1940s. This classic work by the late lexicographer Frederic G. Cassidy is back in print for new generations to enjoy. Cassidy applied his insightful eye to the origins and evolution of local names that reveal a colorful history: Whiskey Creek, Brag Hollow, Marxville, Pancake Valley, Halunkenburg, Skunk Hollow, and Tipple School. This edition features a new introduction by local historian Tracy Will and a foreword by Isthmus journalist David Medaris.
Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns
Author: Library Reprints, Inc.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780722203385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Birdman of Koshkonong
Author: Martha BerglandPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870209531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Thure Kumlien was one of Wisconsin’s earliest Swedish settlers and an accomplished ornithologist, botanist, and naturalist in the mid-1800s, though his name is not well known today. He settled on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in 1843 and soon began sending bird specimens to museums and collectors in Europe and the eastern United States, including the Smithsonian. Later, he prepared natural history exhibits for the newly established University of Wisconsin and became the first curator and third employee of the new Milwaukee Public Museum. For all of his achievements, Kumlien never gained the widespread notoriety of Wisconsin naturalists John Muir, Increase Lapham, or Aldo Leopold. Kumlien did his work behind the scenes, content to spend his days in the marshes and swamps rather than in the public eye. He once wrote that he was not “cut out for pretensions and show in the world.” Yet, his detailed observations of Wisconsin’s natural world—including the impact of early agriculture on the environment—were hugely important to the fields of ornithology and botany. As this carefully researched and lovingly rendered biography proves, Thure Kumlien deserves to be remembered as one of Wisconsin’s most influential naturalists.
Madison: 1856-1931
Author: Stuart D. LevitanPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299216740
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
We are just beginning to understand the power of local history to enhance our understanding of ourselves, our cities, and our culture. It is, after all, that stratum of history that touches our lives most closely. Madison answers the basic questions of when, where, why, how, and by whom Madison, Wisconsin was developed. The book is richly detailed, fully documented, inclusive in coverage, and delightfully readable. More than 300 illustrations provide a vivid feeling for what life was like in Madison during the formative years. David Mollenhoff's unique interpretive framework emphasizing public policies and community values, gives the book a consistent interpretive quality and reveals major themes that flow through time. This combination will allow you to see the city's growth and development with unusual clarity and coherence--almost as if you were watching time-lapse photography. When Mollenhoff began to study Madison's history, he was delighted by his early discoveries but frustrated because no one had written a book-length history of Madison since 1876. Finally, in 1972 he decided to write that book. His research required him to read five miles of microfilm, piles of theses and dissertations, shelves of reports, boxes of manuscripts and letters, and to study thousands of photographs. Soon after the first edition was published in 1982, readers declared it to be a classic. For this second edition Madison has been extensively revised and updated with new maps and photos. If you want to know the fascinating story of how Madison got to be the way it is, this book belongs on your bookshelf. It will change the way you see the city and your role in it.
Selected Catalogues, 1890-1895
Author: Francis P. Harper (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Construction Reports, Building Permits
Author: A Guide to the Glacial Landscapes of Dane County, Wisconsin
Author: David M. MickelsonPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Area statistics
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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