Juliette Kinzie: Frontier Storyteller

In 1830 a young woman named Juliette Magill Kinzie moved from her fancy home in Connecticut to a rustic log cabin in what would later be called Wisconsin. Juliette's memoir, Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, is an important first-person account of life on the western frontier.

About the author

Kathe Crowley Conn has worked in education, public programming, institutional management, and philanthropy for thirty years. Her interest in the history and ecology of the Midwest began during a childhood spent roaming the lakeshore and open fields near Chicago and became a hallmark of her term as president and executive director of the Aldo Leopold Nature Center in Madison. She founded Nature Net: the environmental learning network to foster a love of the land and the thrill of discovery in children throughout the state. She resides in rural Rock County with her family.

Product details

• Authors: Kathe Crowley Conn, Kathe Crowley Conn
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2015
• EAN: 9780870207013
• ISBN: 978-0-87020-701-3
• No. of pages: 123
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 226 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Series: Badger Biographies; Badger Biographies
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics