| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850–1925. By Joan M. Jensen. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006. xvi + 518 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $34.95.)

Joan Jensen's study of women in northern Wisconsin transcends local history to reveal larger patterns of female agency and adaptation on a timber, farming, and tourist industry frontier. Here, the term "frontier" refers to areas in place and time where Native, European, and Anglo-Americans met in contests over control of land, resources, and culture. In a skillful analysis of oral histories, letters, memoirs, census manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, and institutional records, Jensen tracks Native and EuroAmerican women in four counties from 1850 to 1925. In the northern counties, Lincoln and Taylor, the timber industry gave way to tourism during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In the southern counties, Clark and Marathon, dairy farms gradually replaced logging operations in the cutover districts. In both areas, families developed a mixed economy of subsistence farming, barter, sale of surplus goods, and seasonal wage work. Menominee, Chippewa, and Ho-Chunk women supplemented harvest of natural resources with truck farming and wage work in the service industries that sustained lumbermen, and later, tourists. EuroAmerican women followed a similar pattern. As commercial recreation expanded, Native women further added to family support by the sale of handcrafts to tourists. This was not incidental work. Jensen assembles overwhelming evidence to show that both Native and immigrant women in rural northern Wisconsin acted as co-providers without whom families would not have survived.

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