The Wisconsin Frontier /
By 1900 an era was rapidly passing, leaving Wisconsin's peoples with traditions of optimism and self-government, but confronting them also with tangled cutover lands and game scarcities that were a legacy of the settlers' belief in the inexhaustible resources of the frontier.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1998]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.