LA Pointe: Village Outpost on Madeline Island

by Ross, Hamilton Nelson

• ISBN13: 9780870203213
• ISBN10: 0870203215
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Summary

The Wisconsin Historical Society Press has republished a long-out-of-print classic of Wisconsin history, La Pointe: Village Outpost, by Hamilton Nelson Ross (1889-1957). The book, which first appeared in 1960, provides a 300-year history of La Pointe, a community on Madeline Island, one of Lake Superior's Apostle Islands. With flair, humor, and solid scholarship, Ross tells the story of the region's evolution. Madeline Island served initially as a refuge for the local Ojibway from their enemy the Sioux before the arrival of French explorers in 1659, then an epicenter of the fur-trade era in the eighteenth century, and finally a summer vacation spot for businessmen and industrialists. Today the island attracts thousands of summer tourists who vastly outnumber the 200 or so year-round residents. Ross first visited Madeline Island from his native Beloit as an eight-year-old, returning again and again over his lifetime to the Ross family cabin in La Pointe. His years of careful study and observation served him well. Ross told the region's story so eloquently that his book helped persuade Congress and the President in 1970 to preserve the islands in perpetuity as the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Thomas Vennum, Jr.
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xvii
``As It was in the Beginning''	3	(14)
Gloria Patri ... B. C.? to A. D. 1615
``Seek, and Ye Shall Find''	17	(17)
Matthew 7:7 ... 1616 to 1677
``Knock, and It Shall be Opened Unto You''	34	(24)
Matthew 7:7 ... 1678 to 1762
``So I Saw the Wicked Buried''	58	(15)
Ecclesiastes 8:10 ... 1763 to 1816
``I Go A Fishing''	73	(35)
John 21:3 ... 1817 to 1842
``The Forger---Of Brass and Iron''	108	(24)
Genesis 4:22 ... 1843 to 1877
``Behold the Fire and the Wood''	132	(15)
Genesis 22:7 ... 1878 to 1888
``There go the Ships''	147	(15)
Psalms 104:26 ... 1889 to 1900
``Old Things are Passed Away''	162	(17)
II Corinthians 5:17 ... 1901 to 1957
Glossary of Ojibway Names	179	(6)
Bibliographical Note	185	(5)
Chronology	190	(5)
Index	195