The Wisconsin frontier
By: Mark Wyman.
Series: A history of the trans-Appalachian frontier
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Wisconsin.; Wisconsin -- History.
Description: "From French coureurs de bois coursing through its waterways in the seventeenth century to the lumberjacks who rode logs down those same rivers in the late nineteenth century, settlers came to Wisconsin's frontier seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their guns, pots, blankets, and other trade items.".

"The settlers' frontier produced a state with enormous ethnic variety, but its unruliness worried distant governmental and religious authorities, who soon dispatched officials and missionaries to help guide the new settlements.".

"By 1900 an era was rapidly passing, leaving Wisconsin's peoples with traditions of optimism and self-government, but confronting them also with tangled cutover lands and game scarcities that were a legacy of the settlers' belief in the inexhaustible resources of the frontier."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-325) and index.

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