Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin
Pioneering the Upper Midwest portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents and other works drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division. The collection's 138 volumes depict the land and its resources; the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural traditions; and the development of regional and national leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics, religion, law, journalism, education and the role of women.
The online books in this digital collection are made up of the digitized page images and transcribed, searchable text of some of the books from the Library of Congress's General Collections and (in a few cases) its Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Each book is also described in a bibliographic record that links to the searchable text and page images. Users can look at the facsimile images of a book's pages to read it just as they would if they held the real book in their hands; or they can search or browse or read the book's text in its electronic transcription.
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