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Subject(s)

• Wisconsin—Miscellanea [Browse]
• Wisconsin—History [Browse]
• Wisconsin—Description and travel [Browse]
• Wisconsin—Guidebooks [Browse]
• Tales—Wisconsin [Browse]
• Legends—Wisconsin [Browse]
• Folklore—Wisconsin [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—Wisconsin—Legends [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Guidebooks [Browse]

Summary note

"Wisconsin is a land rich with stories. It was the "mother of all circuses," a place of buried treasure and home to eerie ghosts and monsters. Native American legends, tall tales told at lumberjack camps and taverns, ghostlore and modern urban legends all form the wonderful mythology of the Dairy State. Many know of Rhinelander's famous Hodag, the Beast of Bray Road in Elkhorn, Milwaukee's haunted Pfister Hotel and the Ridgeway Ghost. But few have heard obscure tales like the Christmas Tree Ghost Ship of Two Rivers, the Goatman of Richfield's Hogsback Road and the legend of the Witch's Tower of Whitewater."-- Provided by publisher

Bibliographic references

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Contents

• Wisconsin: Good land of stories
• Native American legends
• Lumberjack Lore and classic tall tales
• Monsters and strange creatures
• Ghostlore
• Urban legends
• Legendary places.

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Other title(s)

Wisconsin legends and lore

ISBN

• 9781467143448 (paperback)
• 1467143448 (paperback)

OCLC

1143645968

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