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- La Crosse, Wis. : La Crosse County Historical Society, 1931-1955
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- Series 1-8
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- 8 v. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- ocm01755374, ocm01755374
- Series 3, 2nd ed. published in 1937 with corrections.
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- La Crosse county historical society, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
- Series 1. Reminiscences of a La Crosse County Pioneer / William Van Zant -- The beginnings of Bangor / Anna M. Jenkins -- Early days in Onalaska / Carrie Saunders -- The Swiss settlers of Mormon Coulee / George Zielke -- Early transportation on the Upper Mississippi / Charles Jagow -- Early steamboat and packet lines / Ruth Bristow -- Early steamboats on the Upper Mississippi River / Ruth Bristow -- Mississippi River steamboat stories / Harry G. Dyer -- His dreams came true, sketch of Colonel Thomas B. Stoddard, first mayor of La Crosse ? Ellis B. Usher -- Recollections of T.B. Stoddard / H.E. Rogers -- Music of early La Crosse / Mrs. John F. Doherty -- Rafting on Black River / Emil Heintz -- Log marking / A.H. Sanford -- Log scaling / A.F. Sanford -- Series 2. A general sketch of La Crosse history / Albert H. Sanford -- Comments on the site of La Crosse by early explorers / Robert Fries -- Early Overland Routes of travel to La Crosse / Katharine Wesson -- The building of the Southern Minnesota Railroad / H.E. Rogers -- The car ferry from La Crosse to Grand Crossing, Minnesota / H.E. Rogers -- Some early La Crosse steamboats / Edward M. Winslow -- The Young Men's Library Association and other antecedents of La Crosse Public Library / Lilly M.E. Borresen -- Reminiscences of my childhood / Dr. J.E. Engstad -- Recollections of early days in La Crosse County / W.E. Barber -- Jewish settlers of La Crosse to 1880 / H.J. Hirshheimer -- Dr. Wendell A. Anderson / John P. Bird -- Josiah L. Pettingill / G.C. Ellis -- Officers of La Crosse County Historical Society, meetings of La Crosse County Historical Society, 1925-1935 -- Series 3. Looking pine in Wisconsin -- An early logging contract / Albert H. Sanford -- Some economic aspects of the lumber industry / Robert Fries -- Life in a lumber camp / Frank Hartman -- Lumber jack poems -- Log marking and scaling / Albert H. Sanford -- Rafting in Black River / Emil Heintz -- Memories of lumbering on Black River / Charles P. Crosby -- Smell of the sawdust / Douglas Malloch --The beginnings of a great industry in La Crosse / Albert H. Sanford -- The passing of the sawmills and the growth of manufacturers in La Crosse / H.J. Hirshheimer -- Sawmills of Onalaska, North La Crosse and La Crosse -- Series 4. Early customs and activities of La Crosse churches / Geneve Caldwell -- The story of Carl Hanson / Mrs. Emma Hanson Heath -- Dr. Mary Elizabeth Lottridge / Mrs. Ida Tilson -- The Ohio Mill Company / Albert H. Sanford -- Manufacturing in La Crosse, 1853-1880 / H.J. Hirshheimer -- Beginnings of the La Crosse Plow COmpany / A. Hirshheimer -- Reminiscences of a lumber camp teamster / recounted by M. Desmond -- Two old songs -- The first telephone of La Crosse / told by John Burns -- Telephone systems of La Crosse / W.F. Goodrich -- The fight for physical connection of telephone systems / Frank Winter -- The La Crosse Medical School / William Snow Miller -- August Wehausen / Augusta Wehausen -- Early kindergartens in La Crosse / Mrs. J.S. Otten -- The name Onalaska -- Series 5. Types of architecture illustrated in La Crosse and vicinity / Harold Weisse -- Harmon J.B . Miller / Mary I. Miller -- Comments on Miss Miller's paper / Albert H. Sanford -- Personal recollections of Nathan Myrick / an interview with Frank Winter -- Girlhood recollections / Mrs Levi Pease -- How Cameron Park came about / Charles H. Schweizer -- Congregational and Presbyterian beginnings in La Crosse / Albert H. Sanford -- Old man river / Mrs. Pauline Turner Funke -- Historic homes of Neshonoc and West Salem / Mrs. Rachel Gullickson -- The Settlement of the town of Hamilton / Guy C. Ellis -- The Black River boom / Hannibal Plain -- Olden days, boys' games and sports / Dr. D.S. McArthur -- Manufacturing in La Crosse, 1853-1880, additions and corrections / H.J. Hirshheimer -- More about early La Crosse kindergartens -- Series 6. La Crosse boards of Trade and Chamber of Commerce / E.S. Hebberd -- Pioneering in Wisconsin and Minnesota / Louis Larson -- Bridging the Mississippi at La Crosse and Winona / H.J. Hirssheimer -- Interior decorations and furnishing, 1870-1900 / Mrs. Arthur E. Hebberd -- Some early La Crosse County authors / David A. Coate -- History of the natural setting of La Crosse Wisconsin / Minnie E. Lemaire -- Social life in early La Crosse / Mary A. Clarke -- The Mormons of Mormon Coulee / Albert H. Sanford -- Series 7. Records and reminiscences / Egid Hackner -- The first kindergarten in La Crosse, a tribute to Miss Mary Williams / Eugene O. Edwards -- La Crosse River history and the Davidsons / H.J. Hirshheimer -- Since the turn of the century in La Crosse / Cameron L. Baldwin -- Old-time kitchens and cooking / Mrs. B.A. Spangler -- Christian F. Hoffman, teacher and composer of music / Charlotte Loomis -- Beginnings of the Salzer Memorial Methodist Church / Emil J. Bernet -- Dress in early La Crosse / Mrs. Arthur E. Hebberd -- Carl Rau, artist / D.O. Coate -- An immigrant's memories / Mrs. T.S.V. Wroolie -- The Humane Society and its successors / Gysbert van Steenwyk -- Recollections of social welfare work / E.S. Hebberd -- Our society and the centennial years, 1941 and 1942 -- Old first ward school days, two episodes / H.J. Hirshheimer, Recalling school days / E.O. Edwards, Pleasant memories / Wesley S. Mow -- Series 8. Notes on early La Crosse / Mrs. P.S. McArthur -- Lewis Valley / O.S. Sisson -- Biography of G. Van Steenwyk, Sr. / G. van Steenwyk -- Post Office of North La Crosse / R.S. Rynning -- More records and reminiscences / Egid Hackner -- Normanna Sangerkor / R.S. Rynning -- Biography of E.B. Rynning / R.S. Rynning -- A view of the Swayer and Austin Sawmill / A.H. Sanford -- Indoor games of boys and girls in early times / Mrs. B.A. Spangler -- Biography of H.J. Hirshheimer / Dora D. Marshall -- Autobiography of Harry Spence / Harry Spence -- Albert Hart Sanford, teacher and historian / Eleanor R. Sanford -- A Vermonter in the west, 1859 / George H. Button -- Pioneer stories retold, The Dow Family / Evelyn McClintock, Pioneer days in Holland Township / Arnold Black, A Pioneer days / R. and Mildred Meyer, Pioneer days / R. and Mildred Hulberg, Grandfather's memories of Indians / Wayne C. Bradley, Their first Christmas in America / Calverna Schams, A Bohemian Family on St. Joseph's Ridge / Frances Clements