Wisconsin is called a German state, but it entered the Union in 1848 as a Yankee one. Schafer compares the two peoples’ attitudes to land, their habits as farmers, their crafts and their social life, then adds a history of Muscoda from 1763 to 1856 and an essay on popular censorship of history textbooks.
A readable piece of Midwestern social history for anyone tracing immigrant settlement in the Upper Mississippi valley. Download the free EPUB.