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| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | This manuscript map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, lakes and streams, "Chippewa trails, Indian trails" Indian villages and... |
| Land Speculator and Businessman |
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| Biography of fur trader, lumberman, land speculator and businessman Hercules Louis Dousman. |
| Discover historical details and explore our online collections related to Onalaska, Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Lumber company scrip issued by Knapp, Stout & Co., Barron County, Wisconsin, between about 1878-1890. (Museum object #N4001) |
| A Popular Swindler |
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| Read about John Till and the miraculous "medical" plaster treatment that led to his arrest by the State Medical Board. |
| Buffalo and O-Sho-Ga Protest Forced Removal |
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| Discover how two Ojibwe chiefs traveled to Washington DC and negotiated with President Millard Fillmore to keep rights to their land. |
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| Description: | Five men are standing in a row behind a stove and long tables. Interior of what may be a lumber camp cook shack. |
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| Description: | We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the... |
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| Description: | "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville. |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of lumberjacks. Some of the men in the background appear to be standing on the roof of a log building. Two dogs are in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of a group of workmen, probably at a lumber camp. The man sitting in the front in the center is holding a rabbit. A building is in t... |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a group of loggers, including two women, one holding a child in her arms, at a logging camp in winter. |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of loggers at a logging camp. Snow is on the ground, and horses are standing in the back near log buildings. |
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| Description: | View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther... |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in the snow at a logging camp. In the background are railroad tracks, and two pigs foraging around buildings. |
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| Description: | Elevated outdoor group portrait of men assembled at a logging camp. Horses are on the left, and a locomotive hauling cars of logs is in the background. |
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