Bibliograph

The Wisconsin story, 150 people, places, and turning points that shaped the Badger State, Dennis McCann

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The Wisconsin story, 150 people, places, and turning points that shaped the Badger State, Dennis McCann

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Wisconsin story

Oclc number

1089840861

Responsibility statement

Dennis McCann

Sub title

150 people, places, and turning points that shaped the Badger State

Summary

"The Wisconsin Story was published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the occasion of the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial in 1998. Columnist Dennis McCann was given total freedom to choose 150 topics for columns that ran in the newspaper through the year and were then published as a book. The topics cover a broad spectrum of state history, from significant figures such as Robert and Belle LaFollette, Golda Meir, Edna Ferber, W.D. Hoard, and many more, to important times such as the Black Hawk War, campus protests, the legal oleo era, and others. The strange and unusual are also represented here, including that time a cow was milked in an airplane, medical quacks convincing people that uranium would heal them, and of course the origins of Watertown's famous stuffed geese.", --Provided by publisher

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