On October 8, 1871 - the same night as the Great Chicago Fire - the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tonado-force winds of one hundred mile an hour that tore across more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating the town in less than one hour and killing more than two thousand people. more...
The History of Door County: The County Beautiful with a new introduction by Kubet Luchterhand.
Holand's History of Door County is an important benchmark in northeasten Wisconsin History. By interviewing oldtimers and gleaning through newspapers that served the county, Holand compiled a fasinating account both of the region's pas
Although this book was originally published in 1916 it still stands as the classic regimental history of the First Minnesota in the Civil War. It has long been recognized as a major Civil War unit history by both collectors and historians from both Minnesota and the rest of the country. It was reprinted in 1987 in a limited quantity but that quick more...
This is the story of the most famous unit in the Union Army. Originally called the "Black Hat Brigade" because the soldiers wore the army's regular dress black hat instead of the more typical blue cap, the Iron Brigade was the only all-Western brigade in the Eastern armies of the Union. The Brigade was initially made up of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wis 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
For the first time, the traumatic removal of the Oneida Indians from their Iroquios homelands in New York to the northwest frontier of Wisconsin is examined in a groundbreaking collection of essays, The Oneida Indian Journey: From New York to Wisconsin, 1784 - 1860. To shed light on this vital