Warriors, Saints, and Scoundrels: Brief Portraits of Real People Who Shaped Wisconsin - Edmonds, Michael; Snyder, Samantha
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From mayors and ministers to mystics and murders, delve into the lives of famous and infamous characters who impacted Wisconsin. Among them, a governor who saw ghosts, America's first socialist mayor, an incorrigible horse thief, a husband and wife who each stood over seven feet tall, an American Indian chief who defied forced removal, and the first woman to practice law before the Supreme Court. Each colorful narrative is followed by recommended sources for readers' continued exploration.

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Produktbeschreibung
From mayors and ministers to mystics and murders, delve into the lives of famous and infamous characters who impacted Wisconsin. Among them, a governor who saw ghosts, America's first socialist mayor, an incorrigible horse thief, a husband and wife who each stood over seven feet tall, an American Indian chief who defied forced removal, and the first woman to practice law before the Supreme Court. Each colorful narrative is followed by recommended sources for readers' continued exploration.
Autorenporträt
Between 2006 and 2015, Michael Edmonds wrote more than 500 "Odd Wisconsin" sketches for a syndicated weekly newspaper column. He is the author of two award-winning books from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan and Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader, and has written several articles for the Wisconsin Magazine of History and other journals. Samantha Snyder is a two-time graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, most recently completing her Masters in Library and Information Studies from the UW School of Library and Information Studies in May 2015. She currently lives in Washington, DC and works as a reference librarian at the US Patent and Trademark Office. This is her first book.