History of Wisconsin

Histories and Source Documents

At some point I may have a general history of Wisconsin onsite; for now, the following items:

[ 1/9/11: 112 pages of print presented in 9 webpages ] Squirreled away in the American History Notes section of the site, a growing amount of Wisconsin material will be making this page increasingly useful; for now, just 9 items, listed here in roughly chronological order of their subjects: Early French Forts and Footprints of the Valley of the Upper Mississippi The Movement of American Settlers into Wisconsin and Minnesota The Services of the Menominee in Black Hawk War The Dutch Settlements of Sheboygan County Rufus King: Soldier, Editor, and Statesman The Journey of an Immigrant Family from The Netherlands to Milwaukee in 1854 (primary source) Reminiscences of Arend Jan Brusse on Early Dutch Settlement in Milwaukee The First Dutch Settlers in Milwaukee The Founding of New Amsterdam in La Crosse County

[ 11 pages of print presented in 1 webpage ] In 1836, U. S. Army officer Albert Miller Lea, fresh from a tour of duty exploring the wilds of what is now Iowa, wrote a little book on that area, titling it Notes on the Wisconsin Territory particularly with reference to the Iowa District — and indeed his classic of American pioneer literature is almost exclusively about Iowa; but in it he includes an Appendix in which he provides a complete transcription of "An Act For establishing the Territorial Government of Wisconsin".

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