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id: 20643
author: Turner, Frederick Jackson
title: The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
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summary:
  Upon Wisconsin trade from 1814 to 1822 its influence was slight. [Footnote 240: The centers of Wisconsin trade were Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, and La Pointe (on Madelaine island, Chequamegon bay).


id: 18189
author: Weschcke, Carl
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words: 42926
sentence: 1841
flesch: 70
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title:
  Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin

summary:
  In an effort to replace these lost trees, I inquired at the University of Minnesota Farm and was given the addresses of several nurserymen who were then selling grafted nut trees. PAUL, MINNESOTA Introduction GROWING NUTS IN THE NORTH Only a few books have been written on the subject of nut trees and their bearing habits, and very little of that material applies to their propagation in cold climates.


id: 38148
author: Salisbury, Rollin D.
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words: 49970
sentence: 2492
flesch: 69
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title:
  The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology

summary:
  But a large area in the southwestern part of the state is essentially free from drift, though it is crossed by two belts of valley drift (valley trains) along the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. The North American ice sheet._--In an area north of the eastern part of the United States and in another west of Hudson Bay it is believed that ice sheets similar to that which now covers Greenland began to accumulate at the beginning of the glacial period.


id: 46200
author: North, Sterling
title: Plowing On Sunday
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words: 49906
sentence: 3021
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Great fellows and great times, thought Stud Brailsford, dipping the hissing shoe into the tub of green water beside the anvil. Stud Brailsford was between the thills where the horse should have been, trotting through the rain, singing and hatless.


id: 41662
author: Kjelgaard, Jim
title: The Spell of the White Sturgeon
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words: 53192
sentence: 3990
flesch: 92
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summary:
  Hans Van Doorst still worked with a broken oar to free his boat, and as soon as he came near enough Ramsay knew that he had been right. He is...? Ramsay Cartou, Ramsay supplied. Yaah!


id: 38137
author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold
title: Stories of the Badger State
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words: 59495
sentence: 2231
flesch: 64
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summary:
  When first discovered by white men, Wisconsin Indians were using rude pottery of their own make. This is why the geography of Wisconsin became known so early in the history of our country, why Wisconsin Indians played so important a part on the stage of border warfare, and why history was being made here at a time when some of the States to the east of us were still almost unknown to white men.


id: 38556
author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold
title: Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers
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flesch: 69
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summary:
  This coming in at the back door of river towns reveals many a secret of sham. Of the three, the Rock river route, through the great prairies of Illinois, perhaps presents the greatest variety of life and scenery.


id: 41344
title: Wisconsin in Story and Song; Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Badger State Writers
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sentence: 4264
flesch: 78
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summary:
  At this time the summer was at its most exuberant stage of vitality, and it was not strange that even the faculties of toiling old men, dulled and deadened with never ending drudgery, caught something of exultation from the superabundant glow and throb of Nature's life. Howdy, old man! said Jim.


id: 12376
author: Miller, W. G. (Wesson Gage)
title: Thirty Years in the Itinerancy
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sentence: 4542
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Following my life-long custom, the first Sabbath of the new Conference year found me at my post of labor. Under the Pastorate of Rev. A.A. Reed in 1870 and 1871, a large brick Church was erected, the writer being invited to lay the corner-stone the first year, and preach the dedicatory sermon the second.


id: 35805
author: Garland, Hamlin
title: Rose of Dutcher's Coolly
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sentence: 6014
flesch: 89
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summary:
  Mary turned upon one fool who called a smart word at her: Left your manners in Squashville, didn't you, little man? Dark-skinned, queer, bow-legged, bewhiskered little men, followed by their wives and children, all sallow and crooked.


id: 12183
author: Kinzie, John H., Mrs.
title: Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest
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sentence: 4812
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Its extent was first brought to our knowledge by those who came in little parties begging for food. Let me tell you, madame, replied he, with great _naïveté_, it is not so easy a thing to cheat the Indians as you imagine.


id: 36375
author: Folsom, William H. C. (William Henry Carman)
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flesch: 74
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title:
  Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

summary:
  Mr. Brown introduced the bill for the organization of St. Croix county, which passed and was approved by the governor of Wisconsin, Jan. 9, 1840. The conveyance cites and reiterates a Wisconsin legislative law establishing St. Croix county, giving to the people the right to locate the county seat by vote and to the county commissioners power to erect county buildings, the selected location to be the permanent seat of justice of said county.


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  1853 0 1854 2 1855 8 1856 1 1857 0 1858 2 1839 5 1860 16 1861 12 1862 7 1963 8 1864 7 1865 11 1866 29 1867 36 1868 31 1869


id: 36375
sid: 15482
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type: ORG
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  | | | | | | | | | | 2,481| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------population of minnesota


