Pioneering the Upper Midwest

Highlights the local history of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Depicts the land, resources, and people of each region. Derived from first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works from the collections of the Library of Congress. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.