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The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass

Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

Catalogs to Sleep By

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Various

Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…

Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin

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Frank Tilton

The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…

CHAPTER III: CONCERNING ST. PETERSBURG

In Six Years at the Russian Court

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Magaretta Eagar

From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to Olga (Ольга), Tatiana (Татьяна), Maria (Мария) and Anastasia (Анастасия) Nik…

Pizenous Windies

In Tall Tales from Texas

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Mody Coggin Boatright

Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …

Library Statistics

In Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries

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Arthur Elmore Bostwick

This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…

Ch 7: Catastrophe and Social Surplus

In Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax D…

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Samuel Henry Prince

The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb."The following pages [are] the result of an o…