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Wisconsin Myths & Legends

The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries

Michael Bie author Jackie Sheckler Finch author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:1st Sep '22

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Fourteen Mind-Boggling Tales from the Badger State Was Joe Davis, Civil War veteran and Menominee Indian, really the son of Confederate president Jefferson Davis?  What really happened the night that banker H. C. Mead was murdered inside the Exchange Bank of Waupaca?  Did a flying saucer really land in Joe Simonton’s yard, and did the aliens aboard ask for a jug of water and serve him pancakes?  From pirate ships to pancakes from outer space, Myths and Mysteries of Wisconsin makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state’s most fascinating and compelling stories.

“Most Wisconsin history books cover important highlights, but somehow they miss the stories of headless bankers, the part-time Santa visited by a saucer from space, and the Wisconsin pirate who killed a man. With a piano. You can’t make that stuff up, but Michael Bie didn’t have to because these tales of molls and mobsters, murders and mysteries are all a part of Wisconsin’s past, and our history is richer for their telling.”
—Dennis McCann, former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist; author of Badger Boneyards: The Eternal Rest of the Story

ISBN: 9781493067473

Dimensions: 218mm x 141mm x 14mm

Weight: 281g

240 pages

Second Edition