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| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Billy Schultz, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Charmion (1875-1949, born Laverie Cooper in Sacramento) was a vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman who performed a trapeze striptease in 1897 that mad... |
| The Story of Lost Bird |
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| Discover this harrowing story that brings together a feminist pioneer and the infant her husband found in the aftermath of Wounded Knee. |
| Read about the creation and early success of the famous Ringling Brothers circus founded in Baraboo, Wisconsin. |
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