Summer 2009 Issue
Volume 92, Number 4
Featured Story
The Establishment of Fort McCoy: A Heart for Preparedness
by Lou Ann Mittelstaedt and Kara Motosicky
Robert Bruce McCoy's mission to ensure that the United States was prepared for war at all times was fueled by his own experiences as a soldier in the Spanish-American War and the First World War. Honoring his efforts to build up a citizen army, the military training site established near Sparta in Monroe County in 1909 was named after him in 1926. Through its existence, it served as a training site for the army and national guard, as ordnance depot, as internment and Prisoner of War camp in the Second World War, and as a resettlement center for Cuban refugees in 1980. Today, Fort McCoy is a training facility for reserve- and active-component military forces and a mobilization site.
Photo, courtesy the Fort McCoy History Center Archives, depicts soldiers departing from Fort McCoy to fight in the Middle East in 1990.
Table of Contents
A Question of Respect: Herbert Tanner's Quest to Restore Hendrick Aupaumut to the Historical Record
by John C. Savagian
Wisconsinite Herbert Tanner, physician, inventor, politician, oil man, and amateur historian, stumbled over the burial site of Stockbridge Indian leader Hendrick Aupaumut in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, in 1884. Fascinated by Aupaumut, who was not only leader of his people, but also fought in the Revolutionary War and worked as interpreter and ambassador for the War Department, he continued his research on him throughout his entire life.
IMAGE ESSAY
Only in Photographs: Memories of Beloved Wisconsin Dells Attractions
by David Benjamin
This essay looks at some of the attractions that lured visitors to Wisconsin Dells, many of which are now gone, such as Fort Dells, The Wonder Spot, and Minirama.
BOOK EXCERPT
Milwaukee Braves: Heroes and Heartbreak
by William Povletich
In this excerpt from his book about the Milwaukee Braves, William Povletich tells the story of the team’s heroic and heartbreaking 1956 season. Having finished second, third, and second since they came to Milwaukee from Boston, they were expected to win the pennant in 1956. In a thrilling second half of the season, the Braves won fifteen of their first seventeen games, and needed to win only two of their last three games to guarantee at least a tie with the Dodgers for first place. Find out more about this book.
The Establishment of Fort McCoy: A Heart for Preparedness
by Lou Ann Mittelstaedt and Kara Motosicky
This story follows Fort McCoy's development from maneuver tract in 1909, through its official designation as a camp in 1926, its various uses in the Second World War and the Korean War to its role as training and mobilization site, and also Monroe County's largest employer, in the 1990s and 2000s. The camp was named for Robert Bruce McCoy, a Wisconsin county judge and military man who laid the foundations for the camp by purchasing land in the area in the early years of the 20th century, and whose call for preparedness in the face of war became a guiding principle of the institution.
Wisconsin's Comic Art: From Underground to the Forefront
by Paul Buhle
From 1920s newspaper comic strips "The Gumps" and "Gasoline Alley" to the alternative comix published by Kitchen Sink Press since the late 1960s, Wisconsin has been home to a wealth of comic art. Paul Buhle introduces artists and entrepreneurs from Wisconsin who left their mark on American comic culture.
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