Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925
by
Joan M. Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Swedish domestic worker Emina Johnson witnessed the great Peshtigo fire in 1871; Cherokee nurse Isabella Wolfe served the Lac du Flambeau reservation for decades; the author's own grandmother, Matilda Schopp, was one of numerous immigrants who eked out a living on the Wisconsin cutover. Calling This...