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Where the wild rice grows : a sesquicentennial portrait of Menomonie, 1846-1996
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- Date
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- 1996
- Publisher
- [Menomonie, Wisconsin]: Menomonie Sesquicentennial Commission
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- File 1
- Copyright 1996 by Lawrence D. Lynch, Dwight Agnew, the city of Menomonie, Wisconsin
- In copyright
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- Where the wild rice grows : Menomonie, 1846-1996
- Editor
- Lynch, Larry
- Editor
- Russel, John M.
- Date
- 1996
- Publisher
- [Menomonie, Wisconsin]: Menomonie Sesquicentennial Commission
- Language
- English
- Collections
- Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Rusk, and St. Croix Counties: Local History Collections
- Wisconsin Local Histories
- State of Wisconsin Collection
- Description of Original
- xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
- [Cover]
- [Title Page]
- [Dedication]
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- The land and the people
- 1. At the edge of the tension zone
- 2. An ancient sea
- 3. People of the valley from the ice age to 1839
- Chronology, 9500 B.C. to 1871
- It was a company town
- 4. The lumber barons of the Red Cedar Valley
- Chronology, 1872 to 1900
- It grew like topsy
- 5. A city called Menomonie
- 6. Keeping the peace
- 7. Fire!
- Chronology, 1901 to 1945
- 8. Getting from one place to another
- 9. Early industries and commerce
- 10. Inventors and innovators
- Chronology, 1946-1996
- 11. Cultural life and entertainment
- 12. A fresh vision of education
- 13. Fit to print
- 14. Going off to war
- 15. From folk remedies to modern hospitals
- 16. For the fun of it
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Menomonie mayors
- Appendix B: Church histories
- Appendix C: Menomonie industries
- Appendix D: Organizations
- Illustration credits
- Bibliography
- Index
- [Cover]