The Driftless
A selective bibliography

Fiction

Contours: A Literary Landscape. Viroqua, WI: Driftless Writing Center, 2020.

Baldwin, Ronald J. The Last Crossing: A Historical Novel. United States: Xlibris Corporation, 2004.

Berg, Sue. Driftless Deceit: A Jimm Higgins Driftless Mystery Novel. Jimm Higgins Driftless Mystery; 3. Mineral Point, Wis.: Little Creek Press, 2022.

Berg, Sue. Driftless Gold: A Jim Higgins Driftless Mystery Novel. Mineral Point, Wis.: Little Creek Press, 2011.

Berg, Sue. Driftless Treasure: A Jimm Higgins Driftless Mystery Novel. Mineral Point, Wis.: Little Creek Press, 2021.

Berg, Sue. Driftless Desperation. Driftless Series. Mineral Point, Wisconsin: Little Creek Press, 2023.

Derleth, August. Wind over Wisconsin. Sac Prairie Saga / by August Derleth. New York: Scribner, 1938.

Harsch, Rick. The Driftless Zone, or, A Novel Concerning the Selective Outmigration from Small Cities. 1st ed. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 1997.

McGinley, Jerry. A Driftless Murder. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.

McGinley, Jerry. Ghosts of Dharma Hills. Wisconsin: Lake City Lights Books, 2022.

McKinney, Katrina Louise. When to Hold On. Barneveld, WI: Spiral North Books, 2022.

Meissner, William. Spirits in the Grass. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

Rhodes, David. Driftless. 1st ed. Minneapolis, Minn: Milkweed Editions, 2008.

Rhodes, David.Jewelweed. 1st ed. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Sieger, Thomas. Elegy to Woodstock, Wisconsin and the Decline of the Family Dairy Farm. Mineral Point, Wisconsin: Little Creek Press, 2021.

Geology and Geography

Attig, John W. Glaciation of Wisconsin. 4th ed. Educational Series (Wisconsin Geological And Natural History Survey). Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin geological and Natural History Survey, 2011.

Attig, John W. The Ice Age Geology of Devils Lake State Park. Educational Series (Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey : 1961). Madison: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 1990.

Carson, Eric C., J. Elmo Rawling, J. Michael Daniels, and John W. Attig, eds. The Physical Geography and Geology of the Driftless Area: The Career and Contributions of James C. Knox. Special Papers (Geological Society of America). Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America, 2019.

Clayton, Lee, and John W. Attig. Glacial Lake Wisconsin. Memoir (Geological Society of America). Boulder, Colo.: Geological Society of America, 1989. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=002890332&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

Clayton, Lee, John W. Attig, and David M. Mickelson. “Effects of Late Pleistocene Permafrost on the Landscape of Wisconsin, USA.” Boreas 30, no. 3 (June 28, 2008): 173–88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2001.tb01221.x.

Cross, John Alden, and Kazimierz J. Zaniewski. The Geography of Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.

Dott, Robert H., and John W. Attig. Roadside Geology of Wisconsin. Roadside Geology Series. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press Pub., 2004. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003024029.html.

“Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Lower Wisconsin River Valley: Evidence for the Reversal of the River - Late Cenozoic Evolution of the Lower Wisconsin River Valley: Evidence for the Reversal of the River - WGNHS.”

Leigh, David S. Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Geomorphology of the Bridgeport Terrace of the Lower Wisconsin River Valley near Muscoda and Blue River, Wisconsin, 1988.

Mickelson, David M., and John W. Attig. Laurentide Ice Sheet: Ice-Margin Positions in Wisconsin. Second edition. Educational Series (Wisconsin Geological And Natural History Survey : 1961). Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 2017.

Prior, Jean Cutler. Landforms of Iowa. 1st ed. Bur Oak Original. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press for the Iowa Dept. of Natural Resources, 1991. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=22122.

Spoolman, Scott. Wisconsin Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Badger State. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2018.

Spoolman, Scott. Wisconsin State Parks: Extraordinary Stories of Geology and Natural History. Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018.

Spoolman, Scott. Wisconsin Waters: The Ancient History of Lakes, Rivers, and Waterfalls. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2022.

Trowbridge, Arthur C. The Erosional History of the Driftless Area. University of Iowa Studies in Natural History ...Vol. IX, No. 3. Iowa City: The University, 1921. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100333956.

Archeology

Adovasio, J. M., and David Pedler. Strangers in a New Land: What Archaeology Reveals about the First Americans. Buffalo, New York: Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, 2016.

Birmingham, Robert A. Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes. Wisconsin Land and Life. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.

Birmingham, Robert A., and Katherine H. Rankin. Native American Mounds in Madison and Dane County. 2nd ed. Madison, Wis.: City of Madison and State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1996.

Birmingham, Robert A., and Amy Rosebrough. Indian Mounds of Wisconsin. Second edition. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017.

Boszhardt, Robert F., and Danielle M. Benden. Beneath Your Feet: Archaeology at Trempealeau. Lodi, WI: Driftless Pathways, 2017.

Boszhardt, Robert F., and Dean G. (Dean Gordon) Wilder 1947-. Geoarchaeological Perspective on the Archaeological Potential of the Lower La Crosse River Valley. Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1989. http://publicrescarta.lacrosselibrary.org/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=ff190410-a017-4550-8158-88ab0ceb131f%2Fwlac0000%2F20130901%2F00000005.

Dirst, Victoria. Research in Pursuit of the Past at Governor Nelson State Park, Dane County, Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: Bureau of Parks and Recreation, Dept. of Natural Resources, State of Wisconsin, 1988.

Hall, Robert L. The Archeology of Carcajou Point, with an Interpretation of the Development of Oneoto Culture in Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962.

Highsmith, Hugh. The Mounds of Koshkonong and Rock River: A History of Ancient Indian Earthworks in Wisconsin. Fort Atkinson, Wis: Fort Atkinson Historical Society [and] Highsmith Press, 1997.

Hurley, William Michael. Silver Creek Woodland Sites, Southwestern Wisconsin. Report (Iowa. Office of State Archaeologist). Iowa City: Office of State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, 1974.

Hynek, E. Gene, ed. Native American Artifacts of Wisconsin. First edition. Allen, TX: Lauric Press, 2013.

Lapham, Increase Allen. The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001.

Maier, Gary J. The Eagle’s Voice: Tales Told by Indian Effigy Mounds. 1st ed. Madison, Wis: Prairie Oak Press, 2001.

Malone, Bobbie. Digging and Discovery: Wisconsin Archaeology. Teacher’s Guide and Student Materials. 2nd ed. New Badger History Series. Madison, WI: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2000.

McMillin, Laurie Hovell. Buried Indians: Digging up the Past in a Midwestern Town. Wisconsin Land and Life. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Meinholz, Norman M., and Jennifer L. Kolb. The Statz Site (47 Da-642): A Late Woodland Community and Archaic Lithic Workshop in Dane County, Wisconsin. Archaeology Research Series, no. 5. Madison, Wis: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1997.

Moore, John Howard, and Thomas Lynn Willems. The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Central Wisconsin: A Region Four Study Unit. Stevens Point, Wis.: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1995.

O’Gorman, Jodie. The Tremaine Site Complex: Oneota Occupation in the La Crosse Locality, Wisconsin. Archaeology Research Series, no. 1-3. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1993.

O’Gorman, Jodie. The Tremaine Site Complex: Oneota Occupation in the La Crosse Locality, Wisconsin. Archaeology Research Series, no. 1-3. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1993.

Prehistoric Geometrical-Based Art Work on the Ground, n.d.

Ritzenthaler, Robert E., and Lynne Goldstein. Prehistoric Indians of Wisconsin. 3rd ed. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Public Museum, 1985.

Rosebrough, Amy, and Bobbie Malone. Water Panthers, Bears, and Thunderbirds: Exploring Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds. Madison, Wis: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2003.

Salzer, Robert J., and Grace Rajnovich. The Gottschall Rockshelter: An Archaeological Mystery. Maplewood, MN: Prairie Smoke Press, 2001.

Schrab, Geri, and Robert F. Boszhardt. Hidden Thunder: Rock Art of the Upper Midwest. E-book Edition. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2016. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1516427.

First Nations

Boszhardt, Robert F., and Danielle M. Benden. Beneath Your Feet: Archaeology at Trempealeau. Lodi, WI: Driftless Pathways, 2017. https://www.worldcat.org/title/1005670036

Bieder, Robert E. Native American Communities in Wisconsin, 1600-1960: A Study of Tradition and Change. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Birmingham, Robert A. Skunk Hill: A Native Ceremonial Community in Wisconsin. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Cornelius, Carol. A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2023.

Curry, Ross Milo. Dells Area Indian History. Wisconsin Dells, Wis.: R.M. Curry, 1995. https://www.worldcat.org/title/52419744

Doan, Mary Anne, and Jim Stevens, eds. Dreaming History: A Collection of Wisconsin Native-American Writing. 1st ed. Madison, Wis: Prairie Oak Press, 1995.

Edwards, Richard W. Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes: War, Climate, and Culture. Midwest Archaeological Perspectives. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.

Dillon, Pat. Explore Native Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin: Discover Mediaworks, 2015. https://www.worldcat.org/title/914166872

Gyrisco, Geoffrey Maitland. Cross Currents: The Intersection of Native and European American Cultures in Southwest Wisconsin : Proceedings of the Tippesaukee Symposium 2003, Friday August 15 & Saturday August 16. Blue River, Wis.: Friends of Tippesaukee, 2005.

Hartman, Sheryl, Greg Hudson, and Joe Lee. Indian Clothing of the Great Lakes, 1740-1840. 1st ed. Ogden, UT: Eagle’s View Pub. Co, 1988.

Hirschfelder, Arlene B., ed. Native Heritage: Personal Accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the Present. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

Diedrich, Mark. Ho-Chunk Chiefs: Winnebago Leadership in an Era of Crisis. Rochester, MN: Coyote Books, 2001. https://www.worldcat.org/title/49559375

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846. 1st ed. Histories of the American Frontier. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Indians of Wisconsin: Past and Present. St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Somerset Publishers, 1999. https://www.worldcat.org/title/41795460

Kinzie, John H., Louise Phelps Kellogg, and Adam G. Novey. Wau-Bun: The “Early Day” in the Northwest. Historic preservation edition. Portage, WI : Grove City, Ohio: The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Wisconsin ; Gatekeeper Press, 2021.

Krupat, Arnold, ed. Native American Autobiography: An Anthology. Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Leary, J. P. The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms. E-book Edition. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2018.

Lindquist, Mark Allan, and Martin Zanger, eds. Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds: The Survival of American Indian Life in Story, History, and Spirit. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal. 2nd ed. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2013.

Loew, Patty. Native People of Wisconsin. Revised and Expanded edition. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2015.

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. Wisconsin Indians. Rev. and Expanded ed. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2002.

Mason, Carol I. Introduction to Wisconsin Indians: Prehistory to Statehood. Salem, Wis: Sheffield Pub. Co, 1988.

Recollection Wisconsin. “Petition for Adopting Measures to Remove the Chippewa Indian Tribes from the Areas of White Settlement in Crawford County.” Accessed December 22, 2022. https://recollectionwisconsin.dp.la/item/8ee81efcd589a61252372dbed242704f?page_size=100&location=%22Crawford%22.

Bomkamp, Dan, J.L. Fredrick, and Ron Nagel. River of Mystery. First edition. Poynette, WI? Lovstad Publishing, 2014. https://www.worldcat.org/title/876906110

Seelye, James E., and Steven A. Littleton, eds. Voices of the American Indian Experience. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2013.

Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution. 1st ed. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. https://www.worldcat.org/title/2525300

Tigerman, Kathleen, ed. Wisconsin Indian Literature: Anthology of Native Voices. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Fay, George E. Treaties between the Indian Tribes of Wisconsin and the United States of America. Greeley, Colo.: Museum of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado, 1978. https://www.worldcat.org/title/4971346

Treuer, David. Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey through Reservation Life. 1st ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012.

Eades, Marla. Tribal Cooking: Traditional Stories and Favorite Recipes. 2nd ed. Wisconsin: Minwanjigewin Nutrition Project, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, 2002. https://www.worldcat.org/title/51814449

Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War

Armstrong, Perry A. The Sauks and the Black Hawk War: With Biographical Sketches, Etc. 1st AMS ed. New York: AMS Press, 1979.

Benn, Carl, Black Hawk, and William Apess, eds. Native Memoirs from the War of 1812: Black Hawk and William Apess. Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Black Hawk, and Roger L. Nichols. Black Hawk’s Autobiography. 1st ed. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

Black Hawk, and J. B. Patterson. Life of Mà-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kià-Kiàk, or Black Hawk: An Autobiography. Edited by Michael A. Lofaro. First edition. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2021.

Black Hawk, and Milo Milton Quaife. Life of Black Hawk. New York: Dover Publications, 1994.

Bowes, John P. Black Hawk and the War of 1832: Removal in the North. Landmark Events in Native American History. New York: Chelsea House, 2007.

Brown, Nicholas A., and Sarah E. Kanouse. Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest. Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Eby, Cecil D. “That Disgraceful Affair,” the Black Hawk War. 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1973.

Hargrove, Jim, and Ralph Canaday. The Story of the Black Hawk War. Cornerstones of Freedom. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1986.

Jung, Patrick J. The Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 1832: Thunder on the Wisconsin. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2011.

Jung, Patrick J. The Black Hawk War of 1832. Campaigns and Commanders, v. 10. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

McLaughlin, Benjamin, R. In Black Hawk’s Footsteps. 3rd ed. Santa Fe, NM: B. McLaughlin Pub., 2005.

Nichols, Roger L. Black Hawk and the Warrior’s Path. American Biographical History Series. Arlington Heights, Ill: H. Davidson, 1992.

Stark, William F. Along the Black Hawk Trail. Sheboygan, Wis.: Zimmermann Press, 1984.

Strand, Ben, and Kealan Hamilton-Youngbird. A Black Hawk War Guide: Landmarks, Battlefields, Museums, & Firsthand Accounts. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2021.

Thayer, Crawford B., ed. The Battle of Wisconsin Heights: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832. 1. ed. Black Hawk War Eye-Witness Series. s.l.: Banta, 1983.

Thayer, Crawford Beecher. Massacre at Bad Axe: An Eye-Witness Account of the Black Hawk War of 1832. 1st ed. Black Hawk War Eye-Witness Series. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1984.

Trask, Kerry A. Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America. 1st ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.

Settlement

Birmingham, Robert A. Life, Death, and Archaeology at Fort Blue Mounds: A Settlers’ Fortification of the Black Hawk War. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012.

Hasheider, Philip. Building Early Wisconsin History: The 150-Year Story of Mills on the Honey Creek. Prairie du Sac, WI: Honey Creek Press, 2014.

Carr 1811-1880, Spencer. A Brief Sketch of La Crosse, Wisc’n, Showing the Location of the Place, Its Surrounding Scenery, Commercial Advantages, Early History, and the Social, Moral, Literary, and Religious Character of the Inhabitants; and Various Other Interesting Items. La Crosse, Wis.: W.C. Rogers, 1854. http://publicrescarta.lacrosselibrary.org/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=5a982e4b-3698-4f25-a437-28149b618c61%2Fbrookhav%2FHW000018%2F0077BRIE.

Carver, Jonathan, and John Coakley Lettsom. Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America: In the Years 1766,1767,and 1768. Ill.with Copper Plates. London, Printed for the Author, Sold by J. Walter. London: s.n., 1778.

Wolf, Robert, and Bonnie Koloc. Heartland Portrait: Stories from the Rural Midwest. 2nd ed. American Mosaic. Lansing, Iowa: Free River Press, 2009.

Marryat, Frederick. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors ;v. 252, 261. Paris: Baudry’s European Library, 1839. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100692343.

Saler, Bethel. The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America’s Old Northwest. 1st ed. Early American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Salter, William. The Life of Henry Dodge, from 1782-1833: With Portrait by George Catlin and Maps of the Battles of the Pecatonica and Wisconsin Heights in the Black Hawk War. Kessinger Publishing’s Rare Reprints. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2007.

Harty, Callen. The Townsend Brothers of Shullsburg, Wisconsin. Wisconsin: Publisher not identified, 2003.

Biography

Berg, Sue. Solid Roots and Strong Wings: A Memoir of Family Life in Wisconsin. Mineral Point, Wis.: Little Creek Press, 2011.

Chamberlain, Delores. River Stories: Growing up on the Wisconsin: Stories about Dace Chamberlain. 1st ed. Madison, Wis: Prairie Oak Press, 2000.

Poetry

Daly, James J. Boscobel and Other Rimes. Science and Culture Series. Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co, 1934.

Young, Catherine. Geosmin. Water’s Edge Press First Edition. Sheboygan, WI: Water’s Edge Press, 2022.