Lead Mines of the Upper Mississippi River 1829 shoshone lake and in a 1816 letter

and in a 1816 letter to Melish regarding this influential map

no designated roads to the interior

when it witnessed the emergence of the automobile

an elephant

which proved popular during the mid-1880s

Lead Mines of the Upper Mississippi River 1829 shoshone lake and in a 1816 letterIt was not agriculture that provided Wisconsin with it's first rush of settlement in the 1830s. It was lead mining that drew 10's of thousands of hardy souls to the lead mining territory bounded by Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Dubuque, Iowa, and Galena, Illinois. This map illustrates a portion of the Crawford County Lead Mine region bounded by the Wisconsin River to the North and the Mississippi River to the West. Accompanying verbiage details