# biography

Fighting Son book cover featuring image of Phillip La Follette with black background

Fighting Son: A Biography of Philip F. La Follette

9780870203534

Paperback: $22.95
360 pp, illustrated, photographs, maps
ISBN: 9780870203534

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$22.95

A Recipe for Success book cover featuring illustration of Lizzie surrounded by green with purple border

A Recipe for Success: Lizzie Kander and Her Cookbook

9780870203732

Paperback: $12.95
144 pages, 78 photos and illus., 3 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203732

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Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood

9780870203817

Paperback: $12.95
88 pages, 55 photos and illus., 8 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN:9780870203817

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Curly Lambeau book cover featuring image of Curly surrounded by yellow with green border

Curly Lambeau: Building the Green Bay Packers

9780870203893

Paperback: $12.95
96 pages, 53 photos and illus., 1 map, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203893

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Caroline Quarlls book cover with graphic of Caroline surrounded by blue and dark blue border

Caroline Quarlls and the Underground Railroad

9780870203886

Paperback: $12.95
120 pages, 43 photos, 6 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203886

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Belle and Bob book cover featuring image of Belle and Bob surrounded by light tan and red border

Belle and Bob: Partners in Politics

9780870204074

Paperback: $12.95
144 pages, 83 photos, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204074

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Fighting Bob La Follette book cover featuring black and white image of La Follettte

Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer

9780870204265

Paperback: $22.95
416 pages, 37 b/w photos and illus., 6.125 x 9.25"
ISBN: 9780870204265

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Dr. Kate book cover featuring image of Dr.Kate surrounded by pink and brown border

Dr. Kate: Angel on Snowshoes

9780870204210

Paperback: $12.95
104 pages, 56 b/w photos, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204210

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Richard Bong book cover featuring image of Richard surrounded by dark green with yellow border

Richard Bong: World War II Flying Ace

9780870204340

Paperback: $12.95
128 pages, 66 b/w photos and 2 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204340

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Cindy Bentley book cover featuring image of Cindy surrounded by brown with blue border

Cindy Bentley: Spirit of a Champion

9780870204562

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102 pages, 60 b/w photos and illus., 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204562

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Lucius Fairchild book cover featuring graphic of Lucius surrounded by light brown with dark brown border

Lucius Fairchild: A Civil War Hero

9780870204609

Paperback: $12.95
112 pages, 29 b/w photos and 8 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204609

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Cordelia Harvey book cover featuring image of Cordelia surrounded by pink and brown border

Cordelia Harvey: Civil War Angel

9780870204586

Paperback: $12.95
128 pages, 55 b/w photos and 7 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204586

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Blue Jenkins book cover featuring image of Blue surrounded by blue with red border

Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers

9780870204272

Paperback: $12.95
160 pages, 86 b/w photos, illus., and maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204272

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Joyce Westerman book cover featuring image of Joyce surrounded by white with black border

Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero

9780870204869

A Badger Biography
Paperback: $12.95
120 pages, 64 b/w photos and 1 map, 7 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204869

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Les Paul book cover featuring image of Les holding guitar surrounded by blue with orange border

Les Paul: Guitar Wizard

9780870204883

Paperback: $12.95
112 pages, 60 b/w photos, and 5 maps, 7 x 9
ISBN:9780870204883

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The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed

9780870205026

Paperback: $18.95
304 pages, 25 b/w photos and illus., 14 maps, 5.5 x 8"
ISBN: 9780870205026

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Jens Jensen: Writings Inspired by Nature

9780870204906

Hardcover: $24.95
176 pages, 6 photos and illus., 6 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204906

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$24.95

Father Groppi book cover featuring group marching for civil rights surrounded by blue with yellow border

Father Groppi: Marching for Civil Rights

9780870205750

Paperback: $12.95
156 pages, 60 b/w photos, 7x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-575-0

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Something for Everyone: Memories of Lauerman Brothers Department Store

9780870205811

Hardcover: $22.95
224 pages, 120 b/w photos, 5 ½ x 8
ISBN: 9780870205811

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The Bingo Queens of Oneida: How Two Moms Started Tribal Gaming in Wisconsin

9780870206528

The Bingo Queens of Oneida is the story of not only how one game helped revive the Oneida economy but also how one game strengthened the Oneida community.

$19.95

Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham, Early Chronicler of Plants, Rocks, Rivers, Mounds and All Things Wisconsin

9780870206481

424 pages, 75 b&w photos and illustrations, 4 maps
ISBN: 9780870206481
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$26.95

Cris Plata book cover featuring image of Cris surrounded by orange and blue border

Cris Plata: From Fields to Stage / Del Campo al Escenario

9780870206382

Paperback: $12.95
160 pages, 45 b&w photos, 2 maps
ISBN: 9780870206382

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$12.95

Electa Quinney book cover featuring image of Electa surrounded by brown and green border

Electa Quinney: Stockbridge Teacher

9780870206412

Paperback: $12.95
128 pages, 45 b&w photos and illus., 1 map
ISBN:9780870206412

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Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin

9780870206740

Hardcover: $22.95
240 pages, 23 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870206740

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$22.95

Juliette Kinzie book cover featuring illustration of Juliette surrounded by yellow with blue border

Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller

9780870207013

Paperback: $12.95
123 pages, 65 B&W images, 2 maps, 7x9
ISBN: 9780870207013

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Sterling North and the Story of Rascal

9780870207358

Paperback: $12.95
120 pages, 56 b/w photos, 7 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207358

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The Silver Man: The Life and Times of Indian Agent John Kinzie

9780870207402

Paperback: $14.95
176 pages, 28 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870207402

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Some Like It Cold: Surfing the Malibu of the Midwest

9780870207464

Paperback: $16.95
224 pages, 46 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870207464

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Warriors, Saints and Scoundrels: Brief Portraits of Real People Who Shaped Wisconsin

9780870207921

Paperback: $22.95
224 pages, 62 photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN: 9780870207921

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Wisconsin Riffs: Jazz Profiles from the Heartland

9780870208539

Hardcover: $40.00
580 pages, 114 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-853-9

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$40.00

Wisconsin in Watercolor: The Life and Legend of Folk Artist Paul Seifert

9780870208911

Hardcover: $29.95
128 pages, 65 b/w and color photos, 9x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-891-1

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$29.95

The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Uncovering the Story of the 1634 Journey

9780870208799

Hardcover: $28.95
256 pages, 26 b/w photos, 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-879-9

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$28.95

Gordon MacQuarrie book cover featuring black and white image of Gordons face

Gordon MacQuarrie: The Story of an Old Duck Hunter

9780870203442

Paperback: $22.95
208 pages, 28 b/w photos, 2 maps, 6x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-344-2

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$22.95

Proxmire: Bulldog of the Senate

9780870209086

Remembered by many Wisconsinites as a friendly, hand-shaking fixture at sporting events and state fairs, Proxmire was one of the few politicians who voted his conscience and never forgot about the people he represented.

$28.95

The Wisconsin Story: 150 People, Places, and Turning Points that Shaped the Badger State

9780870209314

Award-winning newspaper columnist Dennis McCann’s talent for distilling complex subjects into brief stories answers the question "What makes Wisconsin, Wisconsin?”

$29.95

Patrick J. Lucey - A Lasting Legacy

9780870209369

As Wisconsin governor from 1971 to 1977, Patrick J. Lucey pursued an ambitious progressive agenda, tempered by the concerns of a fiscal conservative and a pragmatic realist. His legacy continues to impact Wisconsin residents and communities. Details, below.

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$28.95

H.H. Bennett, Photographer: His American Landscape

9780299237042

H.H. Bennett once said, "My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography." Learn more that prominence in this H.H. Bennett biography by Sara Rath. Details below.

$24.95 $18.71

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The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien

9780870209529

Learn about Thure Kumlien, one of Wisconsin's earliest naturalists, and his remarkable achievements working with bird specimens on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in the mid-1800's. Details below.

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$20.00

Byron Kilbourn and the Development of Milwaukee

9780938076155

Written by two Milwaukee County historians, Goodwin Berquist and Paul C. Bowers, Jr, this full-length biography of one of Milwaukee's founding fathers follows Byron Kilbourn from his boyhood home in Ohio to Wisconsin.

$14.95

Book cover of Finding Freedom with dark blue background showing illustration of a man carrying a knapsack over his shoulder running.

Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Freedom Seeker

9780870209550

A bittersweet story of bravery and compassion, Finding Freedom provides the first full picture of the man for whom so many fought and around whom so much history was made.

$20.00

Book cover of "Legacy on Ice" with color photo of back of Blake Geoffrion wearing red hockey jersey, number 57. Title in bold black font.

Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth

9780299344900

A tale of soaring success and terrible tragedy, offering insight not only into one man’s athletic journey but also into the rise of American hockey on the national and international stage.

$27.95 $20.96

"The DEER CAMP" written in cream colored letters over a photograph of three boys fishing in the river.

The Deer Camp: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them

9781635573480

Dean Kuipers weaves a beautiful and surprising story about the restorative power of land and of his own family, which so desperately needed healing.

$28.00 $7.00

Roll out the Barrels

9780984727674

A thorough and fascinating history of barrel making and the largest independent cooperage in Wisconsin: a family business story. AUTOGRAPHED COPY!

$24.95 $6.24

Son of Wilderness: The life of John Muir

9780299186340

Based on the author's personal interviews with the people who knew and worked with Muir. Originally published in 1945 and remains the standard Muir biography.

$29.95

Front cover of the book "Valiant Vel" for young readers. Color portrait of Vel Phillips speaking at microphone.

Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the Fight for Fairness and Equality

9781976600432

Beautifully illustrated with historic photographs and original artwork, this compelling biography for young readers tells the remarkable story of fair housing advocate and civic leader Vel Phillips.

$20.00

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