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Tents Tigers and the Ringling Brothers

Tents, Tigers, and the Ringling Brothers

Paperback: $12.95
128 pages, 81 illus., 1 map, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203749

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Casper Jaggi book cover featuring blue border and then yellow cheese colored with image of Casper Jaggi

Casper Jaggi: Master Swiss Cheese Maker

Paperback: $12.95
96 pages, 51 photos and illus., 3 maps, 7 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870203923

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Picture of Old Farm: A History

Old Farm: A History

Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 114 photos, 2 maps, 8 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204067

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Picture of Horse-Drawn Days: a Century of Farming with Horses

Horse-Drawn Days: a Century of Farming with Horses

Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 140 b/w and color photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204456

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Barns of Wisconsin book cover featuring image of red barn

Barns of Wisconsin

"Barns of Wisconsin" captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns, and discusses the disappearance of barns from our landscape and preservation efforts to save these important symbols of American agriculture.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$29.95
Garden Wisdom book cover with image of man gardening

Garden Wisdom: Lessons Learned from 60 Years of Gardening

Paperback: $26.95
200 pages, 66 color and b/w photos, 7 x 9
ISBN:9780870204944

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$26.95
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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$22.95
The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters

The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters

Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages
ISBN: 9780870206078

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
A Farm Story with Jerry Apps cover featuring small image of young boy Jerry and an old image of barn

A Farm Story with Jerry Apps | DVD

Produced by Wisconsin Public Television
Running time 60 minutes
Closed Captioned.
$19.99
Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir

Hardcover: $22.95
128 pages, 5½ x 8
ISBN: 9780870207099

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Picture of The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names

The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names

Paperback: $19.95
320 pages, 10 b&w images, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207075

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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A Farm Winter DVD cover featuring winter illustration surrounded by black background

A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps | DVD

Produced by Wisconsin Public Television
Running time 57 minutes
Closed captioned
$19.99
Book cover of "Wisconsin Agriculture" by Jerry Apps showing a stylized illustration of a red barn and fields of different colors. Rolling hills and wooded land in the distance.

Wisconsin Agriculture: A History

Hardcover: $34.95
336 pages, 192 color and b&w photos and illus., 2 maps, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207242

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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One-Room Country Schools

One-Room Country Schools

Paperback: $19.95
248 pages, 91 b&w photos, 7 x 10
ISBN: 97808702075255

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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Eat Rutabagas book cover with farmer and young boy standing in front of green field

Eat Rutabagas

Hardcover: $10.00
28 pages, color illustrations, 8 x 0.3 x 8
ISBN: 9781930596085
$10.00
Stormy book cover featuring illustration of farmer holding cow on rope

Stormy

Hardcover: $10
32 pages, color illustrations, 8 x 0.3 x 8
ISBN: 978-1-930596-09-2

Published by The Guest Cottage, Inc.
Distributed by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press


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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

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
Old Farm Country Cookbook

Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories

Seasoned with personal stories, menus, and family photos, Old Farm Country Cookbook recalls a time when electricity had not yet found its way to the farm, when making sauerkraut was a family endeavor, and when homemade ice cream tasted better than anything you could buy at the store.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$28.95
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

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
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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$15.95
Every Farm Tells a Story book cover featuring colored illustration of farm with red barn in far back

Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Farm Values

Paperback: $15.95
188 pages, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-863-8

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$15.95
Ringlingville USA

Ringlingville USA | Paperback Edition

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The Ringling Brothers confronted the challenges of taxation, war, economic pressure, changing technology, and personal sorrows. They emerge as complex characters whose ambition, imagination, and pure hucksterism fueled the phenomenon that was the Ringling Brothers' Circus.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$26.95
Picture of Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm

Simple Things: Lessons from the Family Farm

Hardcover: $22.95
160 pages, 5 1/2x 8
ISBN: 978-0-87020-887-4

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$22.95
Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin book cover

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin: Nature's Army at Work

Details:
Author: Jerry Apps
Paperback
224 pages. 42 b&w photos. 6x9.
ISBN: 978-0-87020-904-8
Publication Date: March, 2019
Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

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$18.95
The Land Still Lives

The Land Still Lives

Details:
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
When White Pine was King by Jerry Apps

When the White Pine was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin

When the White Pine Was King tells the stories of the heyday of logging, of lumberjacks and camp cooks, of river drives and deadly log jams, of sawmills and lumber towns and the echo of the ax ringing through the Northwoods as yet another white pine crashed to the ground. Full details below.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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$22.95
The Old Timer Says: A Writing Journal Cover with blue title an a drawing of old man in yellow jacket walking away

The Old Timer Says: A Writing Journal


Everyone has a story to tell. In The Old Timer Says, Jerry Apps provides the space and inspiration to capture their own stories. Lined journal pages with prompts to get the ideas flowing. Full details below.

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$15.00
Cover of the book Meet Me on the Midway by Jerry Apps

Meet Me on the Midway: A History of Wisconsin Fairs

Take a nostalgic ride around the fair with celebrated rural historian, Jerry Apps, as the former 4-H leader and fair judge showcases the history of Wisconsin county fairs (and the state fair) in this salute to one of the Midwest’s greatest summer traditions!

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$26.95
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
Cover of the Wisconsin Magazine of History Summer 2022 edition. An aerial photo of a red biplane as it takes a sharp corner, leaving curved trail of white smoke. Green fields in the background.

Summer 2022 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

Sold Out - How Oshkosh Landed the World's Largest Fly-In. A Paper Carrier Remembers D-Day. Book Excerpt: "Meet Me on the Midway." More!
$8.95
Cover of the Fall 2020 edition of the Wisconsin Magazine of History showing a black and white full page photo of two men in white shirts standing outside at Pendarvis in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

Fall 2020 | Wisconsin Magazine of History

All Roads to Pendarvis House. The Truth Behind "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy. Book Excerpt: "Make Way for Liberty."
$8.95