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Lynch, Larry; Russel, John M. (ed.) / Where the wild rice grows : a sesquicentennial portrait of Menomonie, 1846-1996
(1996)

[Contents] Table of contents,   pp. v-viii


Page v

-Ae~oi~lHENTS
PREFACE4
Ellwyn Hendrickson & Laura Smalley Reisinger, co-chairpersons
TRArATIONAL YET PROGRESSIVE
Mayor Charles Stokke
THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE                                                     I
Larry Lynch
Chapter 1    At the Edge of the Tension Zone                           3
Chapter 2    An Ancient Sea                                            I
Chapter 3    People of the Valley from the Ice Age to 1839            11
Wisconsin Archaeological Traditions and Periods          -11
Paleo-Indians in the Red Cedar Valley, 9500-6000 B. C.   13
Archaic Tradition, 6000-550 B.C.                         14
Woodland Tradition, 550 B.C.-1000/1600 A.D.              14
Mississippian Tradition, 1000-1600 A.D.                  I I
Tribes and Travelers, 1600-1700                          18
Indians, Europeans, and Americans, 1700-1800             20
Visitors become Settlers, 1800-1839                      30
A Confusion of Place Names                               36
Ch0n, 9500 B.0. o 18W1 byJohn M. Russell                           39
fT WAS A COMPANY ToWN                                                     4S
Dwight Agnew
Chapter 4    The Lumber Barons of the Red Cedar Valley                41
Knapp, Stout & Co. Steamboats by John M Russell          62
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