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A Yankee Childhood in Dodge County

Reminiscences of a Pioneer in the Rock River Country

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In this memoir, Edwin D. Coe recalls coming to the upper Rock River Valley as a child. He describes relations with the Indians, his childhood on his family's frontier homestead, and the coming of the first German immigrants to the region.

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Coe, Edwin Delos. "Reminiscences of a Pioneer in the Rock River Country." Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at its 55th annual meeting held Nov. 7, 1907. (Madison, 1908): 189-203