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Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925

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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 creator’s own grandmother, Matilda Schopp, was once one among a lot of immigrants who eked out a living at the Wisconsin cutover. Calling This Place Home tells the stories of these and plenty of other Native and settler women all over Wisconsin’s frontier era.

Noted historian Joan M. Jensen spent more than a decade delving into the lives of a remarkable range of women who lived all over the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. These individuals shared many struggles as economies evolved from logging to dairying to tourism. Facing many challenges, they cared for their ill, educated their children, maintained their cultural identity, and preserved their own means of worship.

Entwining the experiences of Native and settler communities, Jensen uses photographs and documents to examine and illustrate the recovered stories of representative but frequently lost sight of women. This comprehensive volume brings a deeper understanding of the state’s history through the stories of individual women and the broader developments that shaped their lives.

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