History Books

Discover the captivating history and timeless stories of Frenchtown Cemetery in Mary Elise Antoine's enthralling book, Frenchtown Cemetery:   Ol...

Great history of Prairie du Chien with over 150 images - historic prints, photographs, and postcard. Part of the Images of American series, which c...

Meet Albert Coryer of Prairie du Chien. He loved to spin tales of the adventures of his fur trader grandfather, tell stories about life in Prairie ...

Enslaved, Indentured, Free shines a light on the lives of five extraordinary women-Marianne, Mariah, Patsey, Rachel, and Courtney-whose stories int...

An interesting and concise history of the First fort Crawford and the Second Fort Crawford, an important military post.  Filled with stories about ...

Did you know that a battle of the War of 1812 was fought in Wisconsin?  No just Wisconsin, but Prairie du Chien!  In 1814, Prairie du Chien was the...

The Mississippi River named "the Father of Rivers" by Algonkian-speaking people drains 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces. With over 200 images, th...

Acres of white pine once covered northern Wisconsin.  Beginning in 1840, men began to log these forests but by 1910 the Wisconsin forests had been ...

The brief war that Black Hawk, a Sauk leader, waged against the United States in 1832, resulted in the killing of half of his followers and Black H...

Corey Geiger, international agricultural journalist, pairs his rural roots and storytelling talents, capturing six generations of farming tales.  T...

Wisconsin troops fought for the Union on Civil War battlefields from Shiloh to Gettysburg to Atlanta.  Ronald Paul Larson tells the story not only ...