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When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory. Agriculture quickly followed the railroads, making way for Kansas wheat and Colorado sugar beets and Washington apples. With this new agriculture came an unavoidable need for harvest workers. These were not the year-round hired hands but transients who would show up to harvest the crop and then leave when the work was fi...

From 17th-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the 19thcentury, Wisconsin's frontier era saw thousands arriving from Europe and other areasseeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimeshelping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their guns and othertrade items. This captivating history reveals the conflicts, the defeats, thevictories, and the way the future looked to Wisconsin's peo...

The author interviewed 80 DPs, as well as the employees of various agencies who served them, he cites published primary sources, secondary sources and archival material in an overview which should stimulate further research.

Wyman has written a fine book about 4, 000.000 or so European immigrants to the United States who arrived in this country between 1880 and 1930 and who chose to return to their native lands.

Shows the interplay between the major groups travelling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during the crucial decades of 1830-1860. It's a lively, extensively illustrated account which will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage.