360 pages with 86 total maps Locating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Crawford County, Wisconsin, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6338 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map) 51 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1830s22 1840s175 1850s4774 1860s864 1870s181 1880s80 1890s43 1900s88 1910s4 1920s26 1930s5 1940s29 1950s7 1960s14 1970s20 What Cities and Towns are in Crawford County, Wisconsin (and in this book)? Barnum, Bell Center, Boydtown, Bridgeport, Charme, De Soto, Easter Rock, Eastman, Fairview, Ferryville, Gays Mills, Harmony Hill, Lynxville, Montgomeryville, Mount Sterling, Mount Zion, North Clayton, Petersburg, Pine Knob, Plugtown, Prairie du Chien, Reed, Rising Sun, Rolling Ground, Seneca, Soldiers Grove, Steuben, Towerville, Wauzeka, White Corners

この一冊は単なる地図帳ではありません。ウィスコンシン州クロフォード郡という土地に刻まれた、名もなき開拓者たちの生の軌跡を蘇らせる圧巻の叙事詩です。６０００を超える土地所有者の記録は、荒野を切り拓いた人々の野心と希望の残響であり、著者の緻密な構成によって、無機質なデータが血の通ったフロンティア・スピリットの物語へと昇華されています。 地図上に点在する墓地や廃村の痕跡を辿る時、読者は文字のない文学を読むかのような深い感動に包まれます。家族の移動と土地への執着という、アメリカの本質的なテーマが地図の余白から鮮烈に立ち上がってくるのです。過去と現在を繋ぎ、自らのルーツを再構築するための情熱的な探索の記録であり、歴史の深奥へと誘う至高のガイドブックです。