One journalist curious about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois from the early 1800s until the 1880s was Harry Ellsworth Cole. While he could not sample strong ales at all of the taverns he wrote about, Cole did study newspaper accounts, wrote hundreds of letters to families of tavern owners, read widely in regional history, and traveled extensively throughout the territory. The result, according to Brunet, is a "nostalgic, sometimes romantic, well-written, and easily digested social history."
At Cole s death, historian Louise Phelps Kellogg...
One journalist curious about life in the taverns along the stagecoach lines in Wisconsin and northern Illinois from the early 1800s until the 1880s...
This collection of original documents chronicles two critical years of the Revolutionary War along the western frontier of the United States. Originally published as Volume V in the distinguished Draper Series of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the docu
This collection of original documents chronicles two critical years of the Revolutionary War along the western frontier of the United States. Original...
Every student of eighteenth century American history should have this book, which is a publication of the renowned State Historical Society of Wisconsin. More than simply a history of WI, it discusses every major figure and event that influenced the histo
Every student of eighteenth century American history should have this book, which is a publication of the renowned State Historical Society of Wiscons...
