Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.

Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.

Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.

At the age of nineteen years, the author landed on the banks of the Upper Mississippi, pitching his tent at Prairie du Chien, then at 1836, was a military post known as Fort ...