French Régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest
Author: first_name: Louisa Phelps
last_name: Kellogg
Language: English
Year: 1925

Few Americans today realize that Michigan and Wisconsin were once part of French Canada. French influence in the region continued through the eighteenth century, decades after France ceded Canada to Great Britain at the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763. In this volume, Wisconsin’s French past is recounted by historian Louise Phelps Kellogg. Born in Milwaukee, Kellogg earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1901, where she studied under the noted historian Frede