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Organized labor’s campaign for a ten-hour workday gained momentum in the 1870s and 1880s. The often-violent response to union demands in places like…
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Ole Catfish and his family led quiet, unassuming lives in their home at Lac du Flambeau. They were not remarkable in any way and not the type of people…
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The Northwoods economy was focused on the logging industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, mining was just as important to…
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Cornelius Harrington, a native of Hurley, grew up in the Northwoods and maintained a lifelong dedication to the land he loved. Before his career could…
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Today no one really thinks about air mail as anything particularly unique. In the past, however, the railroads transported most interstate mail in the…
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In the nineteenth century, government rarely got involved in issues of health care. In the absence of government aid, the Catholic Church often stepped in…
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A memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus now marks the land as a gravesite for Native Americans buried there in 1863. Hundreds of…
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In the past, many Northwoods communities held annual winter carnivals featuring competitions in ski jumping, cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice…
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On a clear late November afternoon two days before the start of the Wisconsin deer season in 1937, Royal Nettleton, 29, a Nicolet National Forest junior…
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Christmas is a time when children and grandchildren return home to visit with elderly parents and celebrate the season. Traveling by airline or automobile…
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Few corporate brands are as recognizable as Coca-Cola. The soda has been around for over 130 years, and for much of that time it was bottled right here in…
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Wisconsin’s wolf population has been in the news for the past few months. With efforts to remove wolves from the endangered species list and calls to…