Milwaukee: The History of the Fur Trade Outpost that Became the Beer Capital of the World by Charles River Editors
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Overview: *Includes pictures
*Includes contemporary accounts
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
“It is true, similar things [cultural events and societies] were done in other cities where the Forty-eighters [sic] had congregated. But so far as I know, nowhere did their influence so quickly impress itself upon the whole social atmosphere as in ‘German Athens of America’ as Milwaukee was called at the time.” – Carl Schurz, 1854
The area that became known as the Old Northwest caught the eye of European settlers as far back as the 17th century, when the French explorers Marquette and Jolliet found that waterways in the area connected the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes. The area was perfect for fur trade outposts long before it was settled by whites. Throughout the 19th century, American settlers pushing across the Western frontier came into contact with diverse American tribes, producing a series of conflicts ranging from the Great Plains to the Southwest, and from the Trail of Tears to the Pacific Northwest.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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