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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 help...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wyman, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]
Colección:History of the trans-Appalachian frontier.
Temas:
Frontier and pioneer life > Wisconsin.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > General.
Frontier and pioneer life
Wisconsin > History.
Wisconsin > Histoire.
Wisconsin
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The French open a frontier
  • Before the Europeans
  • Frenchmen and Indians
  • An arena for international competition
  • Struggle over the upper lakes
  • Miners, Indian wars, and a frontier transformed
  • Rush to the land
  • An ethnic and religious jumble
  • Restricting the Indian domain
  • Logging the pineries
  • Legacies.

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