item: #1 of 12 id: 12183 author: Kinzie, John H., Mrs. title: Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest date: None words: 114696 flesch: 72 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. keywords: appearance; arrived; bank; boat; captain; chapter; chicago; chief; children; company; country; course; day; days; family; father; fire; footnote; fort; fox; friends; general; good; green; ground; half; hand; head; home; horses; house; husband; indians; journey; kinzie; lake; leave; length; life; like; little; lodge; man; men; miles; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; officers; old; party; people; place; point; poor; prairie; present; return; river; set; shee; thought; time; village; visit; water; way; white; winnebago; woman; work; years; young cache: 12183.txt plain text: 12183.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 12376 author: Miller, W. G. (Wesson Gage) title: Thirty Years in the Itinerancy date: None words: 90019 flesch: 69 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. keywords: appointments; bay; bishop; brethren; brother; chapter; charge; church; circuit; city; class; close; conference; conference year; day; district; elder; family; father; field; following; fond; general; good; green; home; house; janesville; john; labor; lac; lake; life; man; meeting; members; miles; milwaukee; mission; mrs; new; pastor; people; place; prairie; preacher; present; presiding; quarterly; racine; record; rev; revival; river; sabbath; school; second; sermon; services; session; sheboygan; society; spirit; spring; state; street; term; time; village; west; wisconsin; wisconsin conference; work; writing; year cache: 12376.txt plain text: 12376.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 18189 author: Weschcke, Carl title: Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin date: None words: 42926 flesch: 70 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. keywords: bearing; black; butternut; butternut trees; chapter; cut; filberts; good; grafting; grafts; ground; growing; growth; hazel; hickory; hybrid; illustration; nut trees; nuts; pecan; plants; pollen; roots; scions; shagbark; size; soil; stock; time; trees; varieties; variety; walnut; walnut trees; weschcke; wild; winter; years cache: 18189.txt plain text: 18189.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 20643 author: Turner, Frederick Jackson title: The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin date: None words: 24745 flesch: 71 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). keywords: american; bay; british; colls; company; country; english; footnote; french; fur; fur trade; furs; goods; green; hist; indian; lake; margry; mississippi; new; northwest; post; region; river; state; time; trade; traders; trading; tribes; way; wisconsin cache: 20643.txt plain text: 20643.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 35805 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Rose of Dutcher's Coolly date: None words: 89474 flesch: 89 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. keywords: boys; carl; chapter; chicago; child; city; country; day; days; doctor; dress; dutcher; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; harvey; head; heart; home; house; isabel; john; life; look; love; man; mary; mason; men; mind; moment; mrs; new; people; place; power; right; room; rose; sanborn; saw; school; splendid; talk; thatcher; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; way; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 35805.txt plain text: 35805.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 36375 author: Folsom, William H. C. (William Henry Carman) title: Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes date: None words: 298605 flesch: 74 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. keywords: 1853; 1855; 1857; acres; afterward; america; anderson; anthony; april; army; bank; bay; board; boat; branch; brothers; brown; building; business; capacity; capt; charles; chien; children; chippewa; chisago; chisago county; church; city; claim; clerk; cloud; co.; college; commissioners; company; congress; convention; cost; counties; county; county seat; court; creek; croix county; croix river; daughter; david; day; days; death; district; duluth; east; education; election; falls; family; farm; farming; father; feet; fine; fire; firm; following; folsom; fort; frank; french; general; george; good; government; governor; ground; half; head; henry; high; history; home; hotel; house; hudson; illinois; improvements; indian; interest; james; jan; john; joseph; judge; july; june; lake st; lakes; land; later; law; left; legislature; life; line; little; living; logs; long; louis; lumbering; maine; man; march; mary; mckusick; member; men; methodist; michigan; miles; mill; minneapolis; minnesota; mississippi; mississippi river; mrs; native; nelson; new; new york; north; northern; northwest; number; oct; office; officers; ohio; old; organization; osceola; parents; paul; pennsylvania; people; peter; pine; pioneer; place; point; polk county; position; post; postmaster; practice; prairie; prescott; present; president; property; public; quarter; railroad; ramsey; range; red; register; rev; rice; river; robert; rock; samuel; saw; school; second; section; senate; sept; service; session; settlement; settlers; sioux; site; small; smith; snelling; son; sons; south; spring; staples; state; steamer; stillwater; stock; store; street; superior; supervisors; surveyor; taylor; territorial; territory; thomas; timber; time; town; township; trade; treasurer; united; upper; valley; village; w. h.; war; washington county; way; weekly; west; west st; western; white; widow; wife; william; wilson; winter; wisconsin; wood; work; years; york cache: 36375.txt plain text: 36375.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 38137 author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold title: Stories of the Badger State date: None words: 59495 flesch: 64 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. keywords: american; bay; black; british; chief; company; country; days; english; forest; fort; fox; france; french; fur; general; good; government; governor; green; illinois; indians; island; lake; lead; life; little; mackinac; man; men; michigan; miles; mississippi; new; northwest; party; people; prairie; quebec; river; savages; state; superior; territory; time; trade; traders; tribes; upper; village; war; way; west; white; winnebago; winter; wisconsin; wisconsin indians; wisconsin river; years cache: 38137.txt plain text: 38137.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 38148 author: Salisbury, Rollin D. title: The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology date: None words: 49970 flesch: 69 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. keywords: area; baraboo; beds; devil; drift; edge; erosion; fig; ice; ice sheet; illustration; lake; level; moraine; plate; quartzite; region; ridge; rock; sandstone; stream; surface; time; topography; valley; water; wisconsin cache: 38148.txt plain text: 38148.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 38556 author: Thwaites, Reuben Gold title: Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers date: None words: 58332 flesch: 69 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. keywords: away; bank; bay; beach; black; boat; bridge; canoe; channel; country; craft; current; dam; dark; day; days; doctor; dozen; farm; feet; ferry; flood; foot; fox; good; government; grand; green; half; having; head; highway; home; house; indians; island; lake; life; little; man; miles; mill; mississippi; morning; mouth; new; night; place; portage; prairie; railway; river; rock; sand; shore; stream; time; town; trees; upper; view; village; water; way; white; wild; wind; winnebago; wisconsin; years cache: 38556.txt plain text: 38556.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 41344 author: None title: Wisconsin in Story and Song; Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Badger State Writers date: None words: 85916 flesch: 78 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. keywords: air; american; author; away; blue; book; boy; boys; children; city; copyright; country; course; day; days; earth; eyes; face; farm; father; feet; field; general; glory; good; gotha; half; hand; head; heart; help; hill; home; house; john; land; left; life; line; look; love; machine; making; man; men; morning; mother; new; night; people; place; poems; point; power; present; professor; ray; red; river; room; saw; saxe; school; sea; set; snow; spirit; state; stories; story; study; sun; table; tell; things; thought; time; true; university; village; water; way; west; white; wind; wisconsin; work; world; years; young cache: 41344.txt plain text: 41344.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 41662 author: Kjelgaard, Jim title: The Spell of the White Sturgeon date: None words: 53192 flesch: 92 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! keywords: beach; black; boat; boy; chad; devil; eyes; fish; fisherman; fishing; good; half; hand; hans; holter; horse; lake; man; marta; men; net; pieter; points; pound; ramsay; right; saw; spray; sturgeon; time; van; water; way; white cache: 41662.txt plain text: 41662.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 46200 author: North, Sterling title: Plowing On Sunday date: None words: 49906 flesch: 86 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. keywords: ann; away; bed; big; blue; boy; brailsford; cat; church; crandall; day; days; door; early; early ann; eyes; face; farm; feet; fire; girl; good; great; green; gus; half; hand; head; home; house; joe; junction; kitchen; lake; larabee; life; man; maxine; men; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; peter; red; room; run; sarah; spring; stanley; stud; stud brailsford; temperance; thought; time; tobacco; town; water; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 46200.txt plain text: 46200.txt