CONTENTS PAGE[The Mound Builders]7[Life and Manners of the Indians]14[The Discovery of Wisconsin]24[Radisson and Groseilliers]33[The Story of Joliet and Marquette]42[The Jesuit Missionaries]51[Some Notable Visitors to Early Wisconsin]59[A Quarter of a Century of Warfare]70[The Commerce of the Forest]81[In the Old French Days]87[The Coming of the English]92[Wisconsin in the Revolutionary War]97[The Rule of Judge Réaume]105[The British capture Prairie du Chien]110[The Story of the Wisconsin Lead Mines]117[The Winnebago War]125[The Black Hawk War]134[The Story of Chequamegon Bay]146[Wisconsin Territory formed]155[Wisconsin becomes a State]159[The Boundaries of Wisconsin]162[Life in Pioneer Days]171 [ The Development of Roads]177[The Phalanx at Ceresco]183[A Mormon King]190[The Wisconsin Bourbon]196[Slave Catching in Wisconsin]202[The Story of a Famous Chief]209[A Fight for the Governorship]216[Our Foreign-born Citizens]222[Swept by Fire]230[Badgers in War Time]236[Index]247