HISTORY OF WOOD COUNTY WISCONSIN
Minneapolis - Winona: H. C. Cooper, Jr., and Co, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #1104169
1/2 leather & marbled 4to boards. 795pp. Section one (pp 1-291) is comprised of thirty-one chapters with initial ones having to do with history of region: "Early Wisconsin", "The Indians", "The Coming of the White Man", "The Fur Trade", "The Lumber Industry" "Original Land Entries". Then chapters on local politics, education, religion, commerce. And then chapters on the cities & towns (Wisconsin Rapids, Marshfield, Port Edwards & Nekoosa, etc.. Concluding chapters: "Former Villages and Stations", "Miscellany". the balance of the volume are biographies & include many portraits. Biographical Index. Wear to extremities of leather & boards, but in vg condition. Hinges & joints sound. PLEASE NOTE: one gathering or signature (grouping of bound pages) were bound in upside down (and therefore appear in reverse pagination), pages 369 - 384. Very scarce item.
Price: $246.24