Category: History - American

The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Volume 1, 1917-1918

Meriwether Lewis and John Ordway_, distributed in the summer of 1916, has attracted much attention at the hands of historical editors and others. Of it the _Iowa Journal of History and Politics_ says: “It is perhaps not too much to say that, no publication of the State Histori...

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8. Volume XXIV of the Society’s _Collections_, entitled _Frontier Retreat

on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781_, copy for which was sent to the state printer in December, 1916, at length came from the press in December, 1917, and was distributed the first of...

5. Volume XVI contains the opinions and decisions of the Railroad

Though the task of administering the income tax law is not at all times pleasant or easy, yet, in the opinion of the Wisconsin Tax Commission, “five years of experience have pro...

3. did. I found the soil very fertile and the monotony of the

prairie was relieved by small bunches of trees. Deer and other game were abundant. The horrid howl of the prairie wolf disturbed my sleep until habit armed my ears against annoy...

2. Volume XXIII of the Society’s _Collections_ (_Frontier Advance on the

Upper Ohio, 1778-79_) and Mr. Merk’s _Economic History of Wisconsin During the Civil War Decade_ have been distributed too recently to have attracted much attention at the hands...

7. Chapter 248 of the laws of 1864, published April 15, 1864,

“The state flag to be of the design, plan and material as adopted by the legislature of this state by joint resolution No. 44, senate, at the session of 1863, and one of said fl...

6. Chapter 215 of the Laws of 1863, published April 10th 1863,

“Whenever the state flags of the regiments in the service of the United States, from this state, shall have become so far worn and damaged by service that it is deemed necessary...

4. Part four of the ninth annual report of the Railroad Commission is an

elaborate collection of financial and operating statistics of railroad companies for the period from June 30, 1914 to June 30, 1915. The report is divided into three parts: stea...

1. Volume XXII of the Society’s _Collections_, _The Journals of Captain

Meriwether Lewis and John Ordway_, distributed in the summer of 1916, has attracted much attention at the hands of historical editors and others. Of it the _Iowa Journal of Hist...