"Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch" is in many ways a love story about a quiet scientist and his flamboyant wife, but also about their passions for wild lands, for hunting, and for the grouse and raptor species that they helped bring back from the brink of extinction. more...
St. Croix Valley Civil War Round Table 1866, Reprinted in 2000.
Almost as soon as the cannonballs began fllying over Fort Sumter, Edwin Quiner systematically began collecting accounts of the great national cataclysm. Quiner was in a unique position to do so. A Madison journalist and printer with an interest in history, he had already been publish
The shores of Lake Michigan might seem a far cry from the coastline of the Mediterranean, even for a country famous for its opera singers. Nevertheless, enough Italians responded to the call—and returned home to repeat it confidently to brothers, brides and strangers—to create a thriving community in Milwaukee. Historians often emphasize Milwaukee’ more...
Ignited by a single match, the Five Mile Tower Fire of 1977 raged out of control for seventeen hours. It would be one of the largest wildland fires in Wisconsin history, ultimately destroying more than 13,000 acres of land and sixty-three buildings. With jack pines exploding around them and flames spiraling overhead, DNR rangers, volunteer firefigh more...
Moon Wisconsin's Door County offers focused travel information and the unique perspective of travel writer Thomas Huhti. In this easy-to-carry guide, you'll find sightseeing highlights, handy maps, and shopping, restaurant, and hotel recommendations. Packed with great ideas and advice, Moon Wisconsin's Door County is all you'll need more...
Stories about people, places, and events that contributed to the Peninsula's history. People like Cooney Fish, who lived at the dump, Charles Martin, the Peninsula's first historian, Dorothy Halvorsen, a Norwegian and proud of it. Places like Foscoro which lived and died with the lumber boom, Norz' General Store, a fixture in Fish Creek for many ye more...
"Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else." So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of murder in America. A city where daily newspapers fell over one another to cover the latest mayhem. A city where professionals and amatures alike snuffed each other out, and of more...
A full-color photographic field guide to mushrooms and fungi of the northern United States, from the Midwest to new England. Featured in USA TODAY, this must-have reference has spectacular photos and excellent species information.
Beneath the keels of the giant modern lakeboats that crawl the distant horizon, the lake bottoms are littered with the bones of shipwreck history. more...
Driven by tragedy, the Dog is on a quest to fish himself into oblivion - and he's nearly made it. Lumbering across America in a wounded RV, with only the promise of the next trout stream to sustain him, the Dog rolls into Black Earth, Wisconsin. And somehow, his supply of bad cigars and vodka-Tang seem insufficient when faced with a dead body, a sw more...