Echoes of our Past: Vignettes of Historic La Crosse
by Myer Katz (La Crosse, Wis. : The La Crosse Foundation : The Washburn Foundation), 1985.
Table of Contents:
Title Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Let Them Eat Grass
Chapter 2: The Pictured Cave of Barre Mills
Chapter 3: The David Darst Murder
Chapter 4: Old Dexter, the Fire-Fighting Dog
Chapter 5: The Mystery of the Riverside Cannon
Chapter 6: The Unrequited Love of Martin Dack
Chapter 7: The Tragedy of Mamie Cummings
Chapter 8: Timothy Burns, the City's Second Founder
Chapter 9: Joseph Clarke, A Forward-Looking Mayor
Chapter 10: The Civil War Letters of Joseph Clarke
Chapter 11: The Mayors of La Crosse
Chapter 12: Onalaska, A Proud and Independent City
Chapter 13: Boisterous Antics in Early Onalaska
Chapter 14: True Gothic Splendor in Our Midst
Chapter 15: The Mons Anderson Coins
Chapter 16: Naming of La Crosse Streets, Parks and Schools
Chapter 17: The Biggest and Oldest Tree in La Crosse
Chapter 18: An American President Visits La Crosse
Chapter 19: A Terrible Fire on Third Street
Chapter 20: The Devasting Gund Brewery Fire
Chapter 21: The Great Park Store Fire
Chapter 22: The Legacy of Our Dedicated Fire-Fighters
Chapter 23: Another City Landmark Passes Into Limbo
Chapter 24: Three Men Who Governed the Stoddard Hotel
Chapter 25: Famous People Who Slept in the Stoddard Hotel
Chapter 26: Some Colorful Employees of the Stoddard Hotel
Chapter 27: Debts Doomed the Stoddard Hotel
Chapter 28: How the Stoddard Hotel Got Its Name
Chapter 29: Poem, Tearing a Building Down
Chapter 30: The Demolition of the Old Post Office Block
Chapter 31: Some Early La Crosse Lawyers
Chapter 32: The Ill-Fated La Crosse Medical College
Chapter 33: The Easton's Importance in the City's Development
Chapter 34: Abner Gile, An Important Pioneer
Chapter 35: The Cowardly Assassination of Frank Burton
Chapter 36: The Hanging Tree
Chapter 37: The Beautiful and Incredible Emma Cameron
Chapter 38: The Beautiful But Fiery Emma Cameron
Chapter 39: The Drowning Suicide of Dr. Cameron
Chapter 40: Why Did Dr. Cameron Commit Suicide?
Chapter 41: The Cameron-Ellis Killing
Chapter 42: The Cameron Park Controversy
Chapter 43: The Majestic Cameron House Hotel
Chapter 44: The Ravaging Cameron House Christmas Fire
Chapter 45: The Genealogy of a Magnificant River
Chapter 46: The Discovery of the Mississippi River
Chapter 47: The Menace of Mississippi River Floods
Chapter 48: Robert La Salle, Explorer
Chapter 49: The River Becomes a Highway
Chapter 50: The First Stern-Wheeler on the Mississippi
Chapter 51: The Steamboat Grey Eagle on the Mississippi
Chapter 52: River Barges and Towboats on the Mississippi
Chapter 53: Piracy on the Mississippi
Chapter 54: The Unpredictable Whisky Jack
Chapter 55: The Legend of Princess Winona
Chapter 56: How Mark Twain Got His Name
Chapter 57: A Wagon Bridge for La Crosse
Chapter 58: Bridge Tenders Were Special Men
Chapter 59: Death on the Wagon Bridge
Chapter 60: A New Bridge for the City
Chapter 61: Bridges, Inspiring Structures
Chapter 62: The Old Plank Road
Chapter 63: Copeland Avenue's Colorful Past
Chapter 64: The Dream of a La Crosse Union Depot
Chapter 65: La Crosse's Sunken Treasure, The War Eagle
Chapter 66: The Aftermath of the War Eagle Disaster
Chapter 67: The Hirshheimer Saga, Part One
Chapter 68: The Hirshheimer Saga, Part Two
Chapter 69: Mr. Levy and the Indians
Chapter 70: The Intrepid Fredericka Levy
Chapter 71: John M. Levy, A Noble Man
Chapter 72: Ode to Mr. Levy
Chapter 73: A Chronological History of La Crosse (introduction)
Chapter 74: The Chronology (timeline)
Selected Bibliography
