title: Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie du Chien: History and Folklore from Wisconsin's Frontier
author: Mary Elise Antoine
description: <div>Mary Elise Antoine, MA,is president of the Prairie du Chien Historical Society and former curator at Villa Louis. Herresearch focuses on the material culture and the mix and confrontation of cultures on the upper Mississippi prior to Wisconsin statehood. She is author of The War of 1812 in Wisconsin, also for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, and two books on the history of Prairie du Chien. Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Ph.D., is a professor of history at the Ohio State University whose research focuses on intercultural, interracial, and gender relations on Midwestern American frontiers. She has written and edited four books and numerous articles and papers on Midwestern history.</div>
zlib_text: Wisconsin Folklore
  
  Wisconsin Folklore
  Edited by
  James P. Leary
  THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
  
  The University of Wisconsin Press
  1930 Monroe Street
  Madison, Wisconsin 53711
  3 Henrietta Street
  London WC2E 8LU, England
  www.wisc.edu\wisconsinpress
  Copyright © 1998
  The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
  All rights reserved
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  1998
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  Printed in the United States of America
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Leary, James P.
  Wisconsin folklore I edited by James P. Leary.
  560 pp.
  cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0-299-16030-0 (cloth: alk. paper).
  ISBN 0-299-16034-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
  1. Folklore-Wisconsin.
  2. Wisconsin-Social life and customs.
  I. Title.
  GRII0.W5lA3
  398.2'09775-dc21
  
  For Janet
  
  CONTENTS
  Illustrations
  Preface
  Introduction: On Wisconsin Folklore
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  Part One. Terms and Talk
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  The Significance of Manitowoc
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  E. P. Wheeler
  2.
  Names in the Welsh Settlement
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  Charles T. Roberts
  3.
  German Nicknames o