Geographic Orientation/Wisconsin
-
Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
$24.95 Add to cartBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds–including the world’s largest known bird effigy–a… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback)
- Author: Birmingham, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0299232646
- Language: English
-
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature’s Army at Work
$22.95 Read moreBetween 1933 and 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps, a popular New Deal relief program, was at work across America. During the Great Depression, young men lived in rustic CCC camps planting trees,
- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 0870209043
- Language: English
-
The Monfils Conspiracy: The Conviction of Six Innocent Men
$20.95 Add to cartOn November 21, 1992, Thomas Monfils, an employee at the James River paper mill in Green Bay, Wisconsin, disappeared. After an intensive search, his body was found the next evening, submerged in a pul… [more below]
- Author: Gullickson, Denis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0595484735
- Language: English
-
100 Things Packers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
$18.95 Read morePulling from Packers history since the team’s inception in 1919, this guide to all things gold and green offers dedicated fans all of the stats, trivia, and miscellaneous, fun-filled information crave… [more below]
- Series: 100 Things… Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
- Author: Reischel, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 160078870X
- Language: English
-
Wisconsin Underground: A Guide to Caves, Mines, and Tunnels In and Around the Badger State
$19.95 Add to cartWith the first edition out of print, readers–and libraries–have had to resort to searching for copies online to replace their old, much-used, dog-eared copies. No more. This second edition of Wiscon
- Author: Green, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1595986456
- Language: English
-
Wisconsin’s Lost Towns
$28.00 Read moreWisconsin has over 200 lost, long ago, and nearly gone places. Why they began, why they faded or died encompasses many issues, many reasons. For Rhonda, her love of lost towns and long ago places bega
- Author: Fochs, Rhonda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1682010589
- Language: English
-
Door County Tales: Shipwrecks, Cherries and Goats on the Roof
$21.99 Add to cartBefitting its role as Wisconsin’s thumb, Door County has its own unique pulse. It is the “Door of the Dead,” which some historians blame for more shipwrecks than any other body of freshwater in the wo
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 03 2011
- ISBN10: 160949234X
- Language: English
-
Myths and Mysteries of Wisconsin: True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained
$14.95 Add to cartUnearth the mysteries, myths, strange happenings, and haunted places in Wisconsin’s history. This intriguing, lively, and easy-to-read collection of eerie stories will leave readers astonished at the … [more below]
- Series: Myths and Mysteries
- Author: Bie, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0762769831
- Language: English
-
Wisconsin Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$15.95 Add to cartPopular public radio show host Michael Feldman and coauthor Diana Cook introduce Wisconsin’s weirdest, wackiest, and most outrageous people, places, and things including a man who owes his life to a f
- Series: Wisconsin Curiosities: Quirky Characters Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
- Author: Feldman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0762748184
- Language: English
-
The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare
$10.99 Read moreThey smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door.
The hot sultry night of July 22, 1991 was one the- Series: St. Martin’s True Crime Library
- Author: Davis, Donald A.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0312928408
- Language: English
-
Fascinating Fungi of the North Woods, 2nd Edition
$16.95 Add to cartLearn about fascinating fungi of the North Woods in the first guide exclusively for Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The book’s 120 species are represented with color illustrations, while the pages … [more below]
- Series: Fascinating Fungi
- Author: Mollen, Cora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: April 12 2012
- ISBN10: 193657103X
- Language: English
-
Haunted Wausau: The Ghostly History of Big Bull Falls
$21.99 Add to cartWalk through the Gateway to the Northwoods into a place teeming with apparitions, electrical disturbances, physical manifestations and veiled forces. Glide among the praying whispers in the basement o… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Blaschka, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1609491106
- Language: English
-
Fish of Wisconsin Field Guide
$16.95 Add to cartGo Fishing with Wisconsin’s Famous Identification Guide!
Fishing is a perfect outdoors activity for all ages and skill levels, and the Badger State is an angler’s paradise. Reel in fish, and make iden
- Series: Fish Identification Guides
- Author: Bosanko, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 10 2007
- ISBN10: 1591931940
- Language: English
-
Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region: A Comprehensive Field Guide
$29.95 Read moreDescribing more than 1,100 species, this is a comprehensive guide to wildflowers in Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Ontario. A new introduction to this second … [more below]
- Author: Black, Merel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0299230546
- Language: English
-
The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Silbernagel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600235
- Language: English
-
Janesville: An American Story
$17.00 Add to cart* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102265
- Language: English
-
Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
$20.99 Add to cart“Novelist Denise Gess and historian William Lutz brilliantly restore the event to its rightful place in the forefront of American historical imagination.” —Chicago Sun-Times
On October 8, 1871–the s- Series: Wisconsin
- Author: Lutz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0805072934
- Language: English
-
Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
$18.95 Add to cartThe most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fi… [more below]
- Author: Drennan, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0299222144
- Language: English
-
Ghost Stories of Wisconsin
$12.95 Add to cartAuthor A.S. Mott takes a fun and quirky look at this spirit friendly state. If you’re a fan of spooky legends and lore, you will do well to pick up Ghost Stories of Wisconsin, where they will find the… [more below]
- Series: Ghost Stories
- Author: Mott, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 9768200219
- Language: English
-
Haunted Door County
$21.99 Add to cartBucolic Door County has a rich haunted history of spooky shipwrecks, bizarre tales and ghost stories.
Because Door County received its name from Death’s Door, the perilous strait with more freshwater s
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 1609494741
- Language: English
