The Physical Geography of Wisconsin

All history happens in some place. The names, facts, and dates in our history books sometimes leave the impression that the past exists only on paper between two covers, but the past is actually all around us. On at least one morning during the past 14,000 years, Indians pursued game just outside your window. With more than 100 centuries of human history behind us, crossing any bridge or hiking in any park we share the space with a Jesuit missionary or French fur trader. Less than a mile from where you're sitting, 150 years ago a pair of surveyors made... more...

Original Documents and Other Primary Sources

	Increase Lapham surveys Wisconsin's trees, 1858
	Memorable weather from 19th century Madison
	A clergyman locates the Biblical Garden of Eden in Wisconsin, 1886
	A Dells Tourist Brochure, 1932
	A British scientist makes a geological tour in 1835.
	Increase Lapham describes territorial Wisconsin for new settlers.
	American Indian legends about Wisconsin localities.
	An eyewitness history of the New Richmond tornado, 1899
	A field in a glaciated part of Wisconsin, 1960
	A cliff in the driftless region of Wisconsin.
	Increase Lapham examining a meteorite, ca. 1868

Primary Sources Available Elsewhere

	An 1847 travelogue by a visiting British geologist
	Increase Lapham describes Wisconsin's animal and plant life in 1852
	An Illustrated History of Wisconsin Through 1874

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