Remembering Mary Hoard . . . A very special lady
by William Starke     $19.95  order

Remembering Mary Hoard . . . includes brief reminiscences by those who knew and loved this much-admired benefactress of the Fort Atkinson community.  Featuring 100 pages of beautiful photgraphs capturing Mary and her many Fort Atkinson friends, this volume is a wonderful keepsake capturing a snapshot of life in twentieth-century Fort Atkinson.

Hunting A Shadow: The Search for Black Hawk
by Crawford B. Thayer     $15.95  order

Hunting A Shadow: The Search for Black Hawk reports the futile search for Black Hawk and his followers in today's Rock and Jefferson Counties (Wisconsin) both by the mounted volunteers of the Illinois Militia (including Abraham Lincoln) and by the regular U.S. Army Infantry under Colonel Zachary Taylor in that hot, wet summer of 1832.

The Battle of Wisconsin Heights
by Crawford B. Thayer     $15.95  order

The Battle of Wisconsin Heights details the discovery of Black Hawk's trail and other events experienced in today's Columbia, Dane, Dodge and Jefferson Counties (Wisconsin) by the Third Brigade of the Illinois Mounted Militia volunteers under Brigadier General James D. Henry and by the Michigan Territory Mounted Militia volunteers under Colonel Henry Dodge. They "disobey" the orders of the commanding general, Henry Atkinson, and so "win" the encounter with Black Hawk and his starving band of Indians.

Massacre at Bad Axe
by Crawford B. Thayer     $15.95  order

Massacre at Bad Axe concludes the trilogy by reporting on action in today's Dane, Iowa, Sauk, Crawford, Vernon and Grant Counties (Wisconsin) against the Sauk, Fox and Kickapoo Indians. It details the Indians' futile flight for freedom and describes the final destruction of Black Hawk's band in the tragic encounter which took place on August 1 and 2, 1832, at the Mississippi River just below the mouth of the Bad Axe River and just opposite the mouth of the upper Iowa River.

The Mounds of Koshkonong and Rock River
by Hugh Highsmith     $14.95  order

This rich collection of archeological discoveries is about the ancient earthworks of southern Wisconsin and the people who built them. It tells the story of the land surrounding Lake Koshkonong from 10,000 BC up to 1895, when the last Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) canoe glided down the Rock River. It gathers information about all aspects of Indian life into a comprehensive record of hundreds of Indian mounds, tells how and why they may have been built and how so many have been destroyed. It chronicles the experiences of early explorers, fur traders and settlers in their own words.

Reminiscences of a Country Lawyer
by Charles B. Rogers, edited by William Starke     $24.95  order

This title is a series of selected articles that appeared in the Daily Jefferson County Union from 1946 to 1956. The reader finds a rare glimpse into the daily life and times of a very discerning, observant man who lived and worked in small-town America. Join "Charlie" Rogers as he records in his diary his adventures and observations growing up during those exciting years from 1871 to 1960. It is a refreshing, personal review of history as Rogers experiences and reflects on events of that amazing period in history:  the first electric lights, the telephone, the Spanish-American War, the first automobiles, the first airplanes, the Alaska Gold Rush, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, "talking pictures," the Great Depression, World War II and beyond. It is a revealing, charming "slice of life" of this period in history.