28 Scenic Tours through Lakes, Forests, and Glacier-Carved Countryside
Wisconsin is one of cycling's best-kept secrets. From the tall pines and clear lakes of the north, through gently rolling central farmlands, to the high bluffs and hidden valleys along the Mississippi River, the state is laced with well-maintained secondary roads.
Biking Wisconsin explores 50 fun rides that will really spin your wheels. It's all here: Great Lakes shore tours, big city bike trails, rolling hills and dales in farm country, painfully steep hills, and noble forests. These great rides, on North Country curvy roads through deep woods, on velvety and rolling terrain to charming small towns l more...
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In the spring of 1832, Black Hawk and his Sauk followers, including seven hundred warriors, rose up and defiantly crossed the Mississippi to reclaim their ancestral home in Illinois. The repellion was dashed in just three months, yet no other violent encounter between white America and native people embodies so
The last thing the Dog wanted was to find another Body. But there was Annie Adams - the barn lady - floating dead at his feet, her easel and paints set up on the bridge above his head. Standing defiantly beside them, a frightened and stubborn nine-year-old - The Avalanche Kid - shotgun in hand, dares the Dog, "You saw me hit her. Now go a more...
Bodyguard to the Packers takes you inside the world-famous football franchise to a time when Security Director Jerry Parins roamed hotel hallways and watched tavern backdoors to enforce curfews. Formerly a distinguished police officer, Jerry protected some of the greatest names in NFL history, and made Lambeau Field safe for generations of l more...
A farmer with an extraordinary gift for language and a writer with the field still fresh in his boots, Isherwood is irresistibly compelling. His writing is possessed by poetry. As he moves effortlessly from the profound to the practical, he turns over the ordinary experiences of farm life with the same steady, inexhaustible pace that he ploughs the more...
The story of the Dairy State's other major industry--beer! From the immigrants who started brewing here in territorial days to the modern industrial giants, this is the history, the folklore, the architecture, the advertizing, and the characters that made Wisconsin the nation's brewing leader. Updated with the latest trends on the Wisconsin brewing more...
On a warm summer afternoon in 1927 off South Haven, Michigan, an old barge began taking on water. Helpless to staunch the flow and realizing the vessel would sink, the crew escaped to the accompanying tug and watched as the ship slipped beneath the surface of Lake Michigan. Its loss unlamented, its career unheralded, it slumbered on the sandy botto more...