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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wyman, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]
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.