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• The History of Wisconsin (2 volumes (v1 and v3; v2 never published); Madison, WI: B. Brown, 1854), by William Rudolph Smith
  • Volume I (Historical): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Documentary): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • both volumes: page images at MOA
• An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin, by Charles R. Tuttle (page images at MOA)
• The State of Wisconsin, Embracing Brief Sketches of Its History, Position, Resources and Industries, and a Catalogue of Its Exhibits at the Centennial at Philadelphia. 1876 (page images at MOA)
• Stories of the Badger State (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1900), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wisconsin: Its History and Its People, 1634-1924 (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1924), by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Land, My Home, My Wisconsin: The Epic Story of the Wisconsin Farm and Farm Family From Settlement Days to the Present (1978), by Robert Edward Gard (page images at Wisconsin)
• Fifty Years in the Northwest, by William H. C. Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Hills Stand Watch (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, c1960), by August Derleth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wisconsin Magazine of History (partial serial archives)
• Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, by State Historical Society of Wisconsin (partial serial archives)

• The History of Wisconsin (2 volumes (v1 and v3; v2 never published); Madison, WI: B. Brown, 1854), by William Rudolph Smith
  • Volume I (Historical): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Documentary): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • both volumes: page images at MOA

• Men of Progress: Wisconsin, ed. by Andrew J. Aikens and Lewis A. Proctor (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin, by Jeremiah Curtin and Alma Curtin, ed. by Joseph Schafer (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• Wisconsin: Its History and Its People, 1634-1924 (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1924), by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty Years in the Northwest, by William H. C. Folsom, ed. by E. E. Edwards (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Loos Family Genealogy, 1535-1958 (c1959), by Sila Lydia Bast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1891), by Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of Columbia County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1880) (page images at Wisconsin)

• A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin: Including the Four Lake Country (1874), by Daniel S. Durrie (page images at Wisconsin)

• Franksville: "The First 100 Years" (1975), ed. by J. Bud Wieman (page images at Wisconsin)

• History of Green County, Wisconsin (Milwaukee: Burdick and Armitage, 1877), by Helen M. Bingham (page images at Wisconsin)
• History of Green County, Wisconsin (with a short general history of Wisconsin; Springfield, IL: Union Pub. Co., 1884) (page images at Wisconsin)

• Early History of Kenosha (as published in Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1857), by Michael Frank (page images at wisconsinhistory.org)
• Kenosha Illustrated: Historical, Descriptive and Biographical (1897) (page images at Wisconsin)

• Pioneer Life in Kenosha County: A Sketch (1876), by H. M. Simmons (page images at Wisconsin)
• Souvenir, Kenosha County Court House: And Bits of Yesterday, Foundations of Today (1925), by Otis L. Trenary (page images at Wisconsin)
• The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin (1879), by Western Historical Co. (page images at Wisconsin)

• A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin: Including the Four Lake Country (1874), by Daniel S. Durrie (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Story of Madison (Madison, WI: J. N. Purcell, 1900), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at Wisconsin)
• History of the University of Wisconsin, by Reuben Gold Thwaites (illustrated HTML at Wisconsin)

• A History of Manitowoc County (1904), by Ralph G. Plumb (page images at Wisconsin)
• History of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (1912), ed. by Louis Falge
  • Volume I: page images at Wisconsin
  • Volume II: page images at Wisconsin

• Milladore Centennial, 1870-1970 (page images at mpl.org)

• Milwaukee: The History of a City (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948), by Bayrd Still (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Milwaukee, City and County (3 volumes; Chicago and Milwaukee: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), ed. by William George Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• History of Milwaukee, City and County (3 volumes; Chicago and Milwaukee: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), ed. by William George Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• Biographical and Statistical History of the City of Oshkosh, Winnebago Co., Wisconsin (Oshkosh, WI: Finney and Davis, 1867) (page images with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Our County, Our Story: Portage County, Wisconsin (1959), by Malcolm Leviatt Rosholt (page images at Wisconsin)

• The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin (1879), by Western Historical Co. (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Early History of Rochester, Wisconsin (1935), by Ida L. Ela (page images at Wisconsin)

• A Standard History of Sauk County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918), ed. by Harry Ellsworth Cole
  • Volume I: page images at Wisconsin
  • Volume II: page images at Wisconsin

• The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1880)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, and Early History of the Northwest (Oshkosh, WI: Allen and Hicks, 1880), by Richard J. Harney (page images at Wisconsin)
• History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its Cities, Towns, Resources, People (Chicago: C. F. Cooper, 1908), by Publius V. Lawson
  • Volume I: page images at Wisconsin
  • Volume II: page images at Wisconsin
• Geographical and Statistical History of the County of Winnebago (Oshkosh, WI: Mitchel and Smith, 1856), by Martin Mitchel and Joseph H. Osborn (page images with commentary at Wisconsin)
• Illustrated Atlas of Winnebago County, Wisconsin (Madison, WI: Brant and Fuller, 1889), by George A. Randall (page images with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Wisconsin Rapids Bridge History, by Theodore W. Brazeau (page images at mpl.org)

• Wood County Centennial, August 5-11, 1956: Official Historical Program (page images at mpl.org)
• History of Wood County, Wisconsin (1923), by George O. Jones and Norman S. McVean (page images at Wisconsin)

• My Land, My Home, My Wisconsin: The Epic Story of the Wisconsin Farm and Farm Family From Settlement Days to the Present (1978), by Robert Edward Gard (page images at Wisconsin)
• A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin (1922), by Joseph Schafer (page images at Wisconsin)

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