CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII

LEADING ARTICLES:

PAGE

JOSEPH SCHAFER-Know-Nothingism in Wisconsin.......

SAMUEL M. PEDRICK-Early History of Ripon College....

MABEL V. HANSEN-The Swedish Settlement on Pine Lake.

3

22

38

W. A. TITUS-Historic Spots in Wisconsin...

JOHN B. VLIET-The Story of a Wisconsin Surveyor.......

MRS. MARY J. ATWOOD-John Wilson, a Sauk County

52, 186

57

Pioneer.

67

MRS. CHESTER A. SMITH-Sawmilling Days in Winneconne.

WILLIAM H. PEARSON-James Gates Percival.

71

131

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LOUISE PHELPS KELLOGG-Copper Mining in the Early

Northwest.

146

N. S. FISH-The History of the Silo in Wisconsin.

JOHN G. GREGORY-Early Wisconsin Editors: Philo White.

CHARLES O. PAULLIN-Wisconsin Troops at the Defense of

160

171

Washington in 1861 . . . . .

181

JOSEPH SCHAFER-Letitia Wall, A Wisconsin Pioneer Type 193

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER-The Significance of the

Section in American History....

255

JOSEPH SCHAFER-Prohibition in Early Wisconsin.

FLORENCE BASCOM-The University in 1874-1887.

WILLARD N. PARKER-Warren Downes Parker.

MRS. T. O. BENNETT-Mail Transportation in the Early

281

300

309

Days: A Trip Overland from the Cliff Mine to Appleton 317

OSCAR H. BAUER-Annals of a Country Tradesman...... 321

JOSEPH SCHAFER-A Yankee Land Speculator in Wisconsin. 377

FERDINAND F. DOUBRAVA-Experiences of a Bohemian

Emigrant Family.........

DAVID MCLAIN-The Story of Old Abe.

ELIZABETH MOORE WALLACE-Early Farms in Exeter.

393

407

415
DOCUMENTS:

On the Presentation of the Mack Portrait to the State

Historical Society; An Account of the Norwegian

Settlers in North America...

74

..88,221

199,328

423

445

Bascom's Signature; A Freshman Volunteers.....

THE SOCIETY AND THE STATE....... 117, 244, 362, 463

459

BOOK REVIEWS.

....373,476