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This impeccably researched study points to ways in which legends about the past possess qualities unique to their subgenre yet can also operate similarly to contemporary legends in their social impact.

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.

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ISBN: 9780870202952

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Paperback: $19.95
200 pages, 40 b&w photos, 5 ½ x 8 ½
ISBN: 978-0-87020-851-5

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Relish the real-life, epic journey of intrepid Wisconsin voyageur, Clara Pagel, who ventured into the world just prior to the start of World War II, chronicling her travels and the state of the world—from bombings and earthquakes to Mussolini and Gandhi—in more than 100 letters to YWCA members back home.

Paperback: $15.95
192 pages, 46 b&w photos, 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870202681

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Hardcover: $29.95
208 pages, 180 color photos, 7 ½ x 9
ISBN: 9780870208287

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Paperback: $14.95
152 pages, 50 color and b/w photos and illus., 6 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204920

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

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

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

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

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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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64 pages, 20 b/w photos, 2 maps, 6 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870201462

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Paperback: $24.95
128 pages, 210 color photos, 9.25 x 11.5"
ISBN: 9780978948702

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Paperback: $29.95
432 pages, 161 b/w illus., 8x9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-883-6

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Mai Ya's Long Journey follows Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, from her childhood in Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp to her current home in Wisconsin.

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Hundreds of African American soldiers and regimental employees represented Wisconsin in the Civil War, and many of them lived in the state either before or after the conflict. And yet, if these individuals are mentioned at all in histories of the state, it is with a sentence or two about their small numbers.... Full details below.

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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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Whose tracks are those? Learn about all the mammals of Wisconsin. Detailed photos, range maps, and more. Perfect size field guide for the backpack.

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ISBN: 978-0-87020-508-8

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Paperback: $12.95
136 pages, 60 b/w photos, 20 image color gallery
ISBN: 9780870205774

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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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128 pages, 30 b&w photos, 6x9
ISBN: 9780870208348

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Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 220 b/w photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN:9780870204234

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Hardcover: $28.95
244 pages, 5 maps, 7 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-87020-865-2

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Paperback: $18.95
260 pages, 86 b&w photos
ISBN: 9780870207426

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From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all—Milwaukee Mayhem uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis.

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

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Paperback: $18.95
236 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 map
ISBN:9780870206900

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A pictorial and entertaining commentary on the growth and development of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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

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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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Milwaukee's Bronzeville, a thriving 12-block area along Walnut street, is remembered by African American elders as a good place to grow up—times were hard, but the community was tight.

This fascinating pictorial history celebrates the people of Mineral Point-the early American settlers from Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky, and the Cornish, German, Irish, and Italian immigrants. Illustrated.

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.

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