European settlement
Lead mining
The first farmers
Railroads
Mills
The battle for county seats
Logging and lumber rafting
Steamboats
Bridging the Wisconsin
Changes to the river
Recreating the landscape
The Driftless in the Civil War


A refuge and America's Dairyland
Black communities
Religious communities
Noted individuals and eccentrics
The failure of wheat and the rise of dairy
The rise of agribusiness and selective outmigration
A future for the Driftless
Organic farming
The Amish and Mennonites
Arts based development
The Kickapoo Valley Reserve
Tourism