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Dec 18, 2019
Dec 18, 2019

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French explorer Jean Nicolet is generally credited with being the first European to set foot in what is now Wisconsin, arriving in 1634 at Red Banks near the present-day city of Green Bay.

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After the Indians ceded their lands south of the Wisconsin River to the United States in a series of treaties signed between 1804 and 1832, lead mining became the leading economic activity in Wisconsin.

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By the early 1600s Native Americans numbered about 100,000 in the region. That was just before Europeans arrived in the Upper Midwest.

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Jerry Apps, born and raised on a central-Wisconsin farm, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 40 books – most on rural history and country life. He has done five hour-long documentaries for Public Television, all on various aspects of farming and rural life. He has worked as a UW-Extension agent, as a publication editor for UW-Extension, as an acquisitions editor for the McGraw-Hill Book Company and as editor of a national professional journal. Visit www.jerryapps.com for more information.