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

Jensen, Joan M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873515633 ISBN 13: 9780873515634

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006

Synopsis

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 author's own grandmother, Matilda Schopp, was one of numerous immigrants who eked out a living on the Wisconsin cutover. Calling This Place Home tells the stories of these and many other Native and settler women during 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 during 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 sick, 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 often overlooked 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Joan M. Jensen is the author of eleven books and more than fifty articles on United States history, including Promise to the Land: Essays on Rural Women and the Pulitzer Prize nominated Loosening theBonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750 1850."

About this edition

• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0873515633
• ISBN 13: 9780873515634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448