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- Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press
summary
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 more than a decade delving into the lives of a remarkable range of women who lived during the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. These individuals shared many struggles as economies evolved from logging to dairying to tourism. Facing many challenges, they cared for their sick, educated their children, maintained their cultural identity, and preserved their own means of worship. Entwining the experiences of Native and settler communities, Jensen uses photographs and documents to examine and illustrate the recovered stories of representative but often overlooked women. These stories of individuals together form a substantial history of Wisconsin’s well-known industries, its caregiver networks and schooling practices, and matters of faith and politics. This comprehensive volume brings a deeper understanding of the state’s history through the stories of individual women and the broader developments that shaped their lives.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xiv
- Map of Wisconsin
- p. xvi
- I. Building Economies
- 1. Moving In, Staying Put
- pp. 5-38
- 2. Woodlands
- pp. 39-89
- 3. Farmlands
- pp. 90-143
- II. Protecting Families and Communities
- 4. Healing
- pp. 147-197
- 6. Learning
- pp. 250-307
- 7. Matters of the Spirit
- pp. 308-346
- 8. Political Landscapes
- pp. 347-398
- III. Making a New Home
- 9. Migration Stories
- pp. 401-442
- Epilogue: Remembering
- pp. 443-449
- Note on Sources
- pp. 495-497
- Illustration Credits
- pp. 517-520
Additional Information
ISBN
9780873517287
Related ISBN(s)
9780873515634
MARC Record
OCLC
794700972
Pages
448
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No