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Birthday of Wisconsin and its early history
Wisconsin's fifty nine year old statehood prompts a tour of its ancient roots from Laurentian highlands to glaciers, Jesuit missions, and explorers Joliet Marquette La Salle and D'Espirit. It traces French and British rule, territorial status, and the growth of Milwaukee as a major flour and beer center.
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Wisconsin
Thibet
Brebeuf
Jogues
America
D'Esprit
Chouart
Minnesota
Charles II
England
Pere Rene Menard
Fox River Prairies
Mississippi River
Joliet
Claude Allouez
Pointe Saint Esprite
Chequamegon Bay
Ashland
James Marquette
Fox River
Green Bay Country
Depere
Pere Allouez
Ottawas
Chippewas
Pottawatomies
Mianis
Kickapoos
Illinois
Saint Lusson
Quebec
Northwest
Louis XIV
France
Braddock
Langlade
Green Bay
Plains of Abraham
Rene de Boucher
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Frontenac
Louis Joliet
Fox
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Pete Marquette
Arkansas
Montreal
Robert Chevoeliler
la Salle
West
Louis Hennepin
David Graysoon du Luth
Seneffe
Hainault
William of
Marquis de Lassay
New World
Northwest Territory
United States
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Kentucky
Jefferson
Congress
Michigania
Sylvania
Assenisipa
Illinoia
Cheronesus
James Monroe
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Michigan
Nelson Dewey
Belmont
Burlington
Madison
Perrot
Francis Renault
Louisianna
South
Milwaukee
Solomon Juneau
Spain