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Picture of Monster Fire at Minong: Wisconsin’s Five Mile Tower Fire of 1977

Monster Fire at Minong: Wisconsin’s Five Mile Tower Fire of 1977

Paperback: $14.95
192 pages, 40 b/w photos, 3 maps, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204470

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts

Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts

Return to Wake Robin; One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
by Marnie O. Mamminga

In a series of evocative remembrances, Mamminga takes readers to Wake Robin, the cabin her grandparents built in 1929 on Big Spider Lake near Hayward—on land adjacent to Moody’s Camp—the cabin five generations of Mamminga’s family have returned to every summer since.

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$22.95
Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir

Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir

Hardcover: $22.95
248 pages, 48 b/w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ¼
ISBN: 9780870205804

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Return to Wake Robin Audio Book

Return to Wake Robin | Audiobook

Audiobook: $34.95
5 Disc CD format
ISBN: 9780870206559

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Picture of The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account, Second Edition

The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account, Second Edition

Paperback: $12.95
64 pages, 8 illus., 2 maps, 8 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870203107

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Ship Captain’s Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes

Ship Captain’s Daughter: Growing Up on the Great Lakes

Paperback
112 pages, 60 b&w photos, 5½ x 8½
ISBN: 9780870207303

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Autobiography of Meta Berger book cover with image of Meta Berger amongst black background

A Milwaukee Woman’s Life on the Left: The Autobiography of Meta Berger

Paperback: $15.95
224 pages, 24 b & w photos an dillus, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870203220

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How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century

Warm, plainspoken, and wryly funny, Clark shares his own American Indian story, talking frankly about a culture’s struggle to maintain its heritage.

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Never Curse the Rain: A Farm Boy’s Reflection on Water

Never Curse the Rain: A Farm Boy’s Reflection on Water

Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages, 5 1/2 x 8
ISBN: 9780870207945

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Thousand-Miler

Thousand-Miler: Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail

Paperback: $20.00
240 pages, 2 maps, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 9780870207907

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth

Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth

Paperback, $22.95
224 pages, 10 color illus., 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870207860

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Danger, Man Working book cover featuring black and white image of man working on an automobile

Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch

Paperback: $18.95
288 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 9780870208409

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Picture of Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times

Once a Professor: A Memoir of Teaching in Turbulent Times

Hardcover: $22.95
256 pages, 39 b&w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-857-7

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Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

Living a Country Year: Wit and Wisdom from the Good Old Days

Paperback: $15.95
172 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-861-4

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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The Land Still Lives

The Land Still Lives

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Author: Jerry Apps
Hardcover
192 pages. 5.5 x 8.5"
ISBN: 9780870209062
Publication Date: Fall 2019
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$25.00
Picture of Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless

Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless

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Author: Gary Jones
Paperback
208 pages. 5.5 x 8.5"
ISBN: 9780870209239
Publication Date: Fall 2019
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$20.00
Climbing My Mountain book cover featuring image of Sheldon in a green suit jacket

Climbing My Mountain - My Life, Words, and Values

Sheldon B. Lubar is one of Wisconsin’s leading entrepreneurs, most generous philanthropists, and most public-spirited citizens. This memoir shares the secrets of his success and explains the deeply held principles behind it.

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$29.95
Self-Made Woman: A Memoir

Self-Made Woman: A Memoir

Denise DuBois, born and raised in Wisconsin, shares her story of remaking herself and embracing the woman she is today. Details below.
$26.95 $20.21
The Black Penguin book cover featuring image of a photographer taking a photo of two penguins

The Black Penguin

Andrew Evans, shares his story of rejection, exploration, self-realization along his journey to Antarctica. Details below.
$24.95 $18.71
Tending the Valley by Alice D’Alessio

Tending the Valley: A Prairie Restoration Odyssey

On a gray and drizzly day in 1983, writer Alice D’Alessio and her math professor husband, Laird, made their way down a curving, tree-lined driveway on their way to a picnic. They were visiting 115 acres of land in Wisconsin’s unglaciated Driftless Area that Laird had inherited from his parents. Emerging from the trees, Alice had her first glimpse of the valley that would become a twenty-five-year labor of love for the couple. Details, below.

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Modern Jungles book cover featuring bold yellow title and blue, purple, and green trees in background

Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee's Childhood Story of Survival

After a difficult and perilous journey that neither of his parents survived, five-year-old Pao Lor reached the safety of Thailand, but the young refugee boy's challenges were only just beginning.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$20.00
The Farm on Badger Creek book cover featuring young girl holding a children on farm

The Farm on Badger Creek: Memories of a Midwest Girlhood

Small town Wisconsin native Peggy Prilaman Marxen recounts her family's rural farming life and its evolution from her settler ancestors to the modern day.

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$20.00
Joyworks cover featuring author Mike Cudahy dressed in red and white button down shirt with black jacket. In front of a sailboat on the dock.

Joyworks: The Story of Marquette Electronics and Two Lucky Entrepreneurs

The story of how Michael Cudahy and his friend and partner Warren Cozzens created Marquette Electronics, one of the miracles of modern business.

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$19.95
Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods Cover featuring four different groups of Milwaukee folks.

Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods

Based on the popular series of posters published by the City of Milwaukee in the 1980s, this book features both historical chronicles and contemporary portraits of 37 neighborhoods that emerged before World War II

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$39.99
Useful Work for Unskilled Women book cover with various women making handcrafts

Useful Work for Unskilled Women: A Unique Milwaukee WPA Project

Mary Kellogg Rice describes a unique Milwaukee project in the post-Depression years which trained thousands of unskilled, uneducated women in the production of a variety of handicrafts.

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$24.95
Milwaukee at Mid-Century book coverfeaturing photograph of train and building in background

Milwaukee at Mid-Century: The Photographs of Lyle Oberwise

Lyle Oberwise spent a period of nearly 50 years collecting 43,00 color slides depicting Milwaukee's architecture and people.

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$39.95
Love and Other Letters book cover featuring two black and white photographs of individuals and different handwritten letters

Love and Other Letters

Nancy Oestreich Lurie found a shopping bag filled with letters from her mother's childhood, and they turned out to be historically enlightening and entertaining.

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$14.95
The Making of Milwaukee book cover featuring bold title and images of many different Milwaukee natives

The Making of Milwaukee

Renowned historian John Gurda chronicles the development of a community whose past has produced one of the most livable big cities in America and, at the same time, created some daunting social and economic problems. Thoroughly illustrated. Fourth edition.

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$35.00
An Industrial Heritage book cover featuring black background and red industrial equipment

An Industrial Heritage: Allis-Chalmers Corporation

Learn about the Allis-Chalmers' early history and the personalities that led the business through industrial, economic, and political cycles.

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$17.95
Book cover of "Little Hawk and Lone Wolf" with an illustration of a forest scene with a river running through it. A boy and wolf are on the left bank of the river.

Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir

Little Hawk shares his life journey—a story that is wise and irreverent, often funny, and deeply moving. New paperback edition.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$20.00
Book cover of "More than Words" by Jerry Apps with a photo of Mr. Apps sitting outside in a rocking chair on green grass with a building behind with brown wood siding.

More Than Words: A Memoir of a Writing Life

Beginning with a boyhood surrounded by storytellers, Jerry Apps engages readers with stories about his path to becoming one of the Midwest’s best-known and most revered writers. A book for book lovers!

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$24.95