Finding Dairyland In Search of Wisconsin's Vanishing Heritage

Explore America's Dairyland and the American SpiritAt the dawn of World War II, Wisconsin was home to nearly 200,000 dairy farms. Today, barely 6,000 remain. The ghosts of the missing can still be seen in withering old farms along lonely highways, some restored, many abandoned or decayed, but all with a story to tell. Immigrants dreamed of owning their own farms, only to be fleeced by the promotion of "cutover" lands in the Northwoods. Freedmen and women arrived in southwestern Wisconsin and became farmers and renowned barn-builders in one of the earliest integrated communities in the nation.Through hundreds of hours of site visits, interviews, and research, historian and photographer, Scott Wittman extracts the forgotten truths from legend to tell the real stories of those who created The Dairy State.

ISBN:	9781467148894
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing
Imprint:	The History Press
Published date:	25 Apr 2022
DEWEY:	636.21420977509045
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	192
Weight:	20g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	8mm

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