Cris Plata

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206397
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Cris Plata by : Maia Surdam

Download or read book Cris Plata written by Maia Surdam and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised among Mexican American farmworkers, singer-songwriter Cris Plata spoke Spanish, ate Mexican food, and heard Mexican music played by family and friends. He also spoke English, went to school with mostly white children for at least half the year, and grew more familiar with mainstream American culture. Until he was seven, he and his family lived and worked on a ranch near Poteet, Texas. The family became migrant farmworkers, moving from Indiana to Arkansas and Florida before finally settling in Wisconsin in 1966 to work at an Astico farm. This dual language book shares the Plata’s family story of migrant farming, music, and family amid the constant change and uncertainty of migrant life. While hardships—from poor working conditions and low wages to racial prejudice—were constant in Cris Plata’s upbringing, so too was the music that bonded and uplifted his family. After long days in the fields, Cris’s family spent their small amount of free time playing and singing songs from Mexico and South Texas. Cris learned to play the guitar, accordion, and mandolin, beginning to strum when he was just five years old. Today, he writes his own music, performs songs in English and Spanish, and records albums with his band, Cris Plata with Extra Hot. Following Cris Plata’s journey from farm fields to musical stages, the story explores how a migrant, and the son of an immigrant, decided to make Wisconsin his home.

Mountain Wolf Woman

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870203819
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Mountain Wolf Woman by : Diane Holliday

Download or read book Mountain Wolf Woman written by Diane Holliday and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the seasons of the year as a backdrop, author Diane Holliday describes what life was like for a Ho-Chunk girl who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Central to the story is the movement of Mountain Wolf Woman and her family in and around Wisconsin. Like many Ho-Chunk people in the mid-1800s, Mountain Wolf Woman's family was displaced to Nebraska by the U.S. government. They later returned to Wisconsin but continued to relocate throughout the state as the seasons changed to gather and hunt food. Based on her own autobiography as told to anthropologist Nancy Lurie, Mountain Wolf Woman's words are used throughout the book to capture her feelings and memories during childhood. Author Holliday draws young readers into this Badger Biographies series book by asking them to think about how the lives of their ancestors and how their lives today compare to the way Mountain Wolf Woman lived over a hundred years ago.

John Nelligan

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206990
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis John Nelligan by : John Zimm

Download or read book John Nelligan written by John Zimm and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the adventures and tough life of a lumberjack in this newest addition to the Badger Biographies Series. Author John Zimm leads young readers on a journey through the lumbering heyday of Wisconsin’s North Woods as witnessed by lumberman John Nelligan, whose writings were the basis for John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack. Born in 1852, Nelligan rose through the lumberjack ranks, starting out as a humble laborer and working his way up to foreman. He worked and lived in Maine, Pennsylvania, and even Canada before coming to Wisconsin in 1871. Learn what surviving and sawing wood for a living was like many years ago—from the story of one Wisconsin man who lived it!

Electa Quinney

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206427
Total Pages : 129 pages
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Book Synopsis Electa Quinney by : Karyn Saemann

Download or read book Electa Quinney written by Karyn Saemann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electa Quinney loved to learn. Growing up in the early 1800s in New York, she went to some of the best boarding schools. There she learned how to read, write, and solve tough math problems—she even learned how to do needlework. Electa decided early on that she wanted to become a teacher so she could pass her knowledge on to others. But life wasn’t simple. Electa was a Stockbridge Indian, and her tribe was being pressured by the government and white settlers to move out of the state. So in 1828, Electa and others in her tribe moved to Wisconsin. Almost as soon as she arrived, Electa got to work again, teaching in a log building that also served as the local church. In that small school in the woods, Electa became Wisconsin’s very first public school teacher, educating the children of Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Indians as well as the sons and daughters of nearby white settlers and missionaries. Electa’s life provides a detailed window onto pioneer Wisconsin and discusses the challenges and issues faced by American Indians in the nineteenth century. Through it all, Electa’s love of learning stands out, and her legacy as Wisconsin’s first public school teacher makes her an inspiration to students of today.

Sterling North and the Story of Rascal

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870207369
Total Pages : 119 pages
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Book Synopsis Sterling North and the Story of Rascal by : Sheila Terman Cohen

Download or read book Sterling North and the Story of Rascal written by Sheila Terman Cohen and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Badger Bio shares the story of author Sterling North – his adventures and misadventures as a young boy growing up in Edgerton, Wisconsin. Young readers will learn how North’s early experience in Wisconsin influenced him in writing some of his best loved children’s books – such as Rascal and So Dear To My Heart. The story gives readers a glimpse of early 20th century customs and lifestyles in the rural Midwest. It also includes global issues of the time, including World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic, which greatly affected Sterling’s boyhood. As examples, his admired older brother Hershel served overseas in WWI as Sterling was growing up, bringing world events to the North family’s doorstep. His mother Gladys died when Sterling was only 7 years old because of the lack of medical advances in the early 1900s. And, as a young man, Sterling was hit by polio, a common epidemic scourge that left many children with paralysis. Readers will learn of Sterling North’s successes, not only as a beloved author of children’s books, but as a columnist for the Chicago Daily News, an editor of North Star children’s history books, and a well-respected critic of other children’s literature.

Juliette Kinzie

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870207024
Total Pages : 135 pages
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Book Synopsis Juliette Kinzie by : Kathe Crowley Conn

Download or read book Juliette Kinzie written by Kathe Crowley Conn and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1830, a young woman named Juliette Magill Kinzie moved from her fancy home in Connecticut to a rustic log cabin in what would later be called Wisconsin. Juliette lived there with her husband, John, who worked as an Indian agent at Fort Winnebago, one of Wisconsin’s earliest settlements. While living at the fort, Juliette came to know the Indian communities that called the land home, as well as the non-Indian settlers who were moving in. She later wrote a best-selling book about her experiences, Wau-Bun: The ‘Early Day’ in the Northwest, an important first-person account of life on the frontier. This new biography in the Badger Biographies Series turns the lens on the writer herself, detailing her life as she detailed the lives of those she encountered in the 1830s and 1840s. Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller details war, hunger, and the rapidly changing times Juliette witnessed on the Midwestern frontier, following the pioneering woman through her own changes from socialite to pioneer to famous writer and even to the work of her granddaughter, Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912.

Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870207334
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom by : Susan Tupper

Download or read book Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom written by Susan Tupper and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom worked to save the greater prairie chicken from extinction in the Wisconsin Historical Society Press’s new book for young readers, "Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers." Fran and Frederick grew up in New England, and married in 1935. They both loved nature and wanted to dedicate their lives to understanding and preserving wildlife. As students of the famous naturalist, Aldo Leopold, they learned about new ways for humans to think about saving land for animals. Fran was a brave, outgoing woman who cared more about interacting with animals than wearing pretty dresses. Frederick was a calm, thoughtful man who loved to study and conduct research. Together, they spent over thirty years mentoring many future scientists, and working to save the greater prairie chicken, and other animals, from extinction. "Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom: Wildlife Conservation Pioneers" is the newest addition to the Society Press’s Badger Biographies Series.

The Development and Implementation of a Multicultural Enrichment Program

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Development and Implementation of a Multicultural Enrichment Program written by Sharon A. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wisconsin Magazine of History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Madison Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
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Madguide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Madguide written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Madison Area Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
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Schwann

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Schwann written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Minstrel's Melody

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646618
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis The Minstrel's Melody by : Eleanora E. Tate

Download or read book The Minstrel's Melody written by Eleanora E. Tate and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A twelve-year-old aspiring performer follows her dream in a novel that culminates at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair Orphelia Bruce lives in rural Missouri, the corner where Illinois, Iowa, and her home state come together. She can sing and play the piano better than anyone in Lewis County. So when Orphelia’s mother forbids her from taking part in a traveling minstrel show looking for new talent and starring her idol, Madame Meritta, she runs away to join their troupe. But life on the road isn’t what she expected. She misses her family, even her annoying older sister, Pearl—Momma’s favorite. And it’s not nearly as glamorous as Orphelia imagined. The group performs in a different town every night, which means long hours of travel. Despite her fame, Madame Meritta still has to work hard to keep her band fed and clothed. But performing at the St. Louis World’s Fair could be Orphelia’s big chance. When a long-buried secret changes everything she thought she knew about her family, will she still get to live her dream? This ebook includes a historical afterword.

Me and My Dragon

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Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1632898969
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Me and My Dragon written by David Biedrzycki and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragon lovers will jump at the chance to see what raising a friendly dragon just might look like in this hilarious read aloud about a boy and his pet. While dragons may not be the most traditional of pets, the boy explains how his dragon, Sparky, would be the perfect pet and pal. He details tips for how to pick a dragon, what to do when your dragon misbehaves, and what NOT to feed them (broccoli). Clever and wry text paired with bright and comedic illustrations will make Me and My Dragon a storytime favorite for kids and adults alike.

Cindy Bentley

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Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206664
Total Pages : 97 pages
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Book Synopsis Cindy Bentley by : Bob Kann

Download or read book Cindy Bentley written by Bob Kann and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cindy Bentley: Spirit of a Champion celebrates the life of one of Wisconsin's most inspirational leaders and activists. Born with an intellectual disability as the result of fetal alcohol syndrome, Cindy Bentley spent much of her childhood at the Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled. No one expected her to learn the skills necessary to live on her own. To everyone's surprise, including her own, she did that and much more. With the encouragement of a teacher at Southern Center, Cindy realized she had a deep passion for sports, and the discipline to train and compete. She began participating in Special Olympics, and gained confidence as she worked with teammates to earn medals in tennis, track and field, and even snowshoeing. Chosen as a Global Messenger for the Special Olympics International in 2000, Cindy has had dinner at the White House with two different American presidents, traveled around the world, and given speeches in front of thousands of people. In these pages, young readers will learn what gives Cindy her champion spirit, and why she gave away some of her gold medals. Today, Cindy is still competing in Special Olympics. She also continues to advocate for people with disabilities, and helped to start People First, a statewide organization that encourages those with disabilities to speak up for their rights.

C.R.I.S.

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Publisher : Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book C.R.I.S. written by Annadel N. Wile and published by Primary Source Microfilm. This book was released on 1977 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: