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Wisconsin’s French Heritage
Here’s a list of works compiled by Mary Elise Antoine:
Books
Alderson, Jo Bartels. Wisconsin’s Early French Habitants. Heritage Books, Inc., 1998.
Antoine, Mary Elise. Enslaved, Indentured, Free: Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800-1850. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2022.
Antoine, Mary Elise. Frenchtown Cemetery: Old Catholic Burying Ground, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1816-1840: History and Burials. Mineral Point WI: Little Creek Press, 2022.
Antoine, Mary Elise and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, eds. Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien: History and Folklore from Wisconsin’s Frontier. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2016.
Antoine, Mary Elise. The War of 1812 in Wisconsin: The Battle for Prairie du Chien. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2016.
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin vols 1-21. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1855-1915.
Edmunds, R. David and Joseph L. Peyster. The Fox Wars: The Mesquaki Challenge to New France. Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Ernst, Kathleen. Trouble at Fort Lapointe. Middleton WI: The Pleasant Company, 1999. (Young adult fiction)
Jung, Patrick J. The Misunderstood Mission of Jean Nicolet: Uncovering the Story of the 1634 Journey. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
Kellogg, Louise Phelps. The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Old Northwest. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1925.
Lurie, Nancy Oesterich and Patrick J. Jung, The Nicolet Corrigenda: New France Revisited. Waveland Press, Inc., 2009.
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Mining and Metis in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld, Great Lake Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
______. The Parkman Club Papers vols 1-18. Milwaukee: The Parkman Club, 1896 and 1897.
Ross, Nelson Hamilton. La Pointe: Village Outpost on Madeline Island. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2000.
Scanlan, Lawrence Peter. Prairie du Chien: French, British, American. Prairie du Chien: Prairie du Chien Historical Society, 2013.
Sherry, Laura Case. Old Prairie du Chien. Paris: Black Manikin Press, 1931.
Shrake, Peter. The Silver Man: The Life and Times of John Kinzie. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2016.
Silbernagel, Robert. The Cadottes: A Fur Trade Family on Lake Superior. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2020.
Starr, Mary Agnes. Pea Soup and Johnny Cake. Madison: Red Mountain Publishing House, 1981.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Exploration of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791, Vol. 1-73. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1901.
Wiederaenders, Robert C. Jean Baptiste Cardinal and the Affair of Gratiot’s Bost: An Incident in the American Revolution. Naperville IL: Center for French Colonial Studies, 1999.
Articles
Antoine, Mary Elise. “The Vertefeuille House of Prairie du Chien: A Survivor from the Era of French Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 80 No. 1, Autumn 1986.
Brumm, Timothy. “Fort La Baye: A Primitive Fort in an Unpredictable Era.” Voyageur, Winter/Spring, 2018.
Trask, Kerry. “Settlement in a Half-Savage Land: Life and Loss in the Metis Community of Green Bay.” Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 15, No.1 Spring 1989.
Good Books
Eccles, W. J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1969.
Podruchny, Carolyn. Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Sleeper-Smith, Susan. Rethinking the Fur Trade: Cultures of Exchange in an Atlantic World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.