The Naughty City |
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Discover Eau Claire's naughty past as a hub of prostitution for the lumbermen looking to support the world's oldest profession. |
A Good Mother, a Good Friend and a Good Woman |
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Discover Juliet Severance, the free-thinking Whitewater physician who was involved with the anti-slavery movement, temperance and women's rights. |
The Brief Stay of Rutherford B. Hayes |
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Discover the visits US presidents have paid to Wisconsin |
The Midwestern Heritage of One of the 20th Century's Greatest Poetic Innovators |
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Discover literary giant Ezra Pound's connection to the frontier wilds of Wisconsin. |
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. |
A Popular Swindler |
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Read about John Till and the miraculous "medical" plaster treatment that led to his arrest by the State Medical Board. |
A History of Disease in Wisconsin |
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Read this informative collection of all the outbreaks and epidemics in Wisconsin's history. |
Spirits Lead a Woman to Fortune |
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Morris Pratt was a well known psychic medium whose legacy is his eponymous spiritualist institution in Whitewater, known locally as "Pratt's Folly." |
First Woman Notary Public |
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Discover the story of Wisconsin's first woman notary public Louise Williams who provided legal counsel for southern Wisconsin after the Civil War. |
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