Kickapoo Valley Association
Promoting Environmentally-Friendly Tourism within the Beautiful Kickapoo River Valley
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Last Update 08 May 2008
Books
The Kickapoo Valley is home to chroniclers, story tellers, novelists, and poets. No matter what the genre, our writers convey the beauty and distinctive characteristics of our valley as they guide you along, as they explain how things came to be, or simply in the stories they tell.
These books, and more from the region, may be purchased or ordered at Bramble Bookstore in Viroqua.
Bramble Bookstore
www.bramblebookstore.com
(608) 637-8717
Where to start? You can't beat the classics!
The Land Remembers by Ben Logan
The beloved story of a farm and its people, written in
1975
ISBN 978-0-9761450-5-9 $17.00
Itchy Cat Press
A Sand Country Almanac by Aldo
Leopold
Essays and reflections by Wisconsin's pre-eminent
conservationist
ISBN 0-345-34505-3 $7.99
Ballantine Books
What's it like to live here? Truth and Fiction...
Population 485 by Michael Perry
A real-life prodigal son returns and meets his
neighbors, one siren at a time
ISBN 978-0-06-095807-0 $13.95
HarperCollins Publishers
Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
Musings on restoring an old pick-up, vegetable
gardening, and marriage
ISBN 978-0-06-057117-7 $24.95
HarperCollins Publishers
The Blood Knot by John Galligan
A mystery featuring a young flyfisherman in the town
of Avalanche
ISBN 978-1-932557-29-9 $14.95
Bleak House Books
Want to know a little (or a lot of) history?
Hunting a Shadow: The Search for
Black Hawk
Compiled and Edited by Crawford B. Thayer
ISBN 0-9611000-0-1 $15.95 Banta
Press
Massacre at Bad Axe: In the Black
Hawk War
Compiled and Edited by Crawford B. Thayer
ISBN 0-9611000-2-8 $15.95 Banta
Press
Curious about the land?
The Upper Mississippi Valley by
William J. Burke
How the landscape shaped our heritage
ISBN 0-9704087-0-6 $25.00
Mississippi Valley Press
Roadside Geology of Wisconsin by
Robert H. Dott, Jr. & John W. Attig
The geological evolution of places you can see from
your car
ISBN 0-87842-492-X $20.00
Mountain Press Publishing
What's that?
Fish of Wisconsin by Dave Bosanko
Essential for tackle boxes, cabins, or coffee tables
ISBN 1-59193-194-0 $12.95 Adventure
Publications, Inc.
Wisconsin Starwatch by Mike Lynch
Seasonal constellation charts, along with stories and
myths
ISBN 0896587231 $26.95 Voyageur
Press
What's THAT!?!
Ghost Stories of Wisconsin by A. S.
Mott
A fun look at our "spirit-friendly" state
ISBN 978-976-8200-21-1 $12.95 Lone Pine
Publishing International
How do I....?
Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook by Joanne
Raetz Stuttgen & Terese Allen
A compilation of 100 cherished recipes showcasing
culinary and cultural traditions
ISBN 978-0-299-22274-1 $24.95 The
University of Wisconsin Press
Birdscaping in the Midwest by
Mariette Nowak
How to create bird habitats that offer food, cover,
and nesting
ISBN 978-09761450-7-3 $27.00
Itchy Cat Press
The Garden Book for Wisconsin by
Melinda Myers
The what, where, when, how, and why of gardening in
Wisconsin
ISBN 1-591860-66-0 $24.99 Cool
Springs Press
Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest
by Elizabeth J. Czarapata
Superlative resource for identifying and controlling
invasive species
ISBN 0-299-21054-5 $29.95 The
University of Wisconsin Press
Where do I...?
Flyfisher's Guide to Wisconsin and
Iowa by John Motoviloff
ISBN 1-932098-36-4 $28.95
Wilderness Adventures Press
Sidetracked in Wisconsin by Mary
Bergin
For thoughtful travelers willing to experience the
new, the quirky, and the unusual
ISBN 978-0-9761450-4-2 $23.00
Itchy Cat Press
Trout Streams of Wisconsin and
Minnesota
by Jim Humphrey & Bill Shogren
ISBN 978-0-88150-497-2 $19.95
Backcountry Guides
Pure Poetry
The Kickapoo by Rev. Wm. Haughton
A poem of praise from 1882
ISBN 978-1-4243-4384-3 $10.00 The
Friends of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve
After the Fire by Paul Zimmer
A writer finds his place, including dogs, jazz,
baseball, and rural life
ISBN 0-8166-4019-X $22.95
University of Minnesota Press
Crossing to Sunlight Revisited by
Paul Zimmer
"I am an old poet."
ISBN 978-0-8203-2944-4 $18.95 The University
of Georgia Press