The Story of Wisconsin

Reuben Gold Thwaites

• Publisher: Braunfell Books
• Year: 2023
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781805230601
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

This is a short history that profiles the Badger State, which became part of the U.S. in 1848 but had settlements decades earlier. It also looks at the Native American history of the state.
"Reuben Gold Thwaites (1853-1913) was a librarian, historian and editor. He attended public schools, and, after moving to Oshkosh in 1866, put himself through a "college course" while teaching school and working on local farms. He worked for a time on various newspapers in the Oshkosh area, and in 1874 enrolled in Yale University as a graduate student in history and economics.
Returning to Wisconsin two years later, Thwaites settled in Madison, where he served for a time as managing editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. In 1885 he became assistant to Lyman C. Draper (q.v.), corresponding secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and when Draper retired in Jan., 1887, Thwaites succeeded him as executive officer of the Society; he served in this capacity from 1887 until his death. His energy in historical undertakings, and his ability as an administrator made the Society one of the leading organizations of its kind in the country, and made Thwaites "the best known non-political man in Wisconsin."
Thwaites' own scholarly reputation rested primarily upon his skill as an editor of historical documents. Among the more important projects completed by Thwaites and his corps of assistants during his years with the Society were The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (73 vols.), Lewis and Clark Journals (8 vols.), Early Western Travels (32 vols.), and Collections of the State Historical Society (vols. 11-20)."-Wisconsin Hist.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE.
• ILLUSTRATIONS.
• CHAPTER I.-IN THE BEGINNING.
• CHAPTER II.-DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
• CHAPTER III.-EXPLORERS AND FUR-TRADERS OF NEW FRANCE.
• CHAPTER IV.-UNDER THE BRITISH FLAG.
• CHAPTER V.-ENGLISH DOMINATION CONTINUED.
• CHAPTER VI.-WISCONSIN BECOMES AMERICANIZED.
• CHAPTER VII.-TERRITORIAL DAYS.
• CHAPTER VIII.-“BARSTOW AND THE BALANCE.”
• CHAPTER IX.-SPOTS ON THE ESCUTCHEON.
• CHAPTER X.-WISCONSIN ON A WAR FOOTING.
• CHAPTER XI.-DEEDS OF VALOR.
• CHAPTER XII.-SINCE THE WAR.
• CHAPTER XIII.-PROGRESS FROM 1890 TO 1898.
• Map
• THE STORY OF WISCONSIN-TOLD IN CHRONOLOGICAL EPITOME.
• THE PEOPLE’S COVENANT AS EMBODIED IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN.
• A SELECTION OF BOOKS TOUCHING UPON THE STORY OF WISCONSIN.