Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925

by Joan M. Jensen

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Swedish domestic worker Emina Johnson witnessed the great Peshtigo fire in 1871; Cherokee nurse Isabella Wolfe served the Lac du Flambeau reservation for decades; the author's own grandmother, Matilda Schopp, was one of numerous immigrants who eked out a living on the Wisconsin cutover. Calling This Place Home tells the stories of these and many other Native and settler women during Wisconsin's frontier era.

Noted historian Joan M. Jensen spent...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0873515633

ISBN13:9780873515634

Release Date:May 2006

Publisher:Minnesota Historical Society Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:2.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.8" x 6.8" x 9.2"

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History Social Science Social Sciences Women in History

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