Pioneer Recollections of Beloit and Southern Wisconsin (Lucius G. Fisher, 1918)
Fisher, Lucius G. "Pioneer Recollections of Beloit and Southern Wisconsin." Edited by Milo M. Quaife. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 1, no. 3, Mar. 1918, pp. 266-86. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4630084.
What the Fisher memoir corpus holds, how it was built, and what it says about Beloit's first months and the land the Yosts later farmed.
Transcribed page by page: 8,702 words. Each page keeps its printed page number, so every quotation on the site can be checked against it.
| Section | Pages | Words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| From Vermont to Chicago and Milwaukee, 1837 — Fisher, Pioneer Recollections (1918) | 7 pages, to PDF p. 7 / book p. 271 | 2,241 | For subscribers |
| Across to the Rock River and the first visit to Beloit, July 1837 — Fisher, Pioneer Recollections (1918) | 8 pages, to PDF p. 13 | 2,651 | For subscribers |
| Return to Beloit, the naming of the town, and settling in, 1837–1838 — Fisher, Pioneer Recollections (1918) | 6 pages, to PDF p. 18 / book p. 281 | 1,852 | For subscribers |
| The land sale, the sheriff's office and a life in business, 1839–1866 — Fisher, Pioneer Recollections (1918) | 7 pages, to PDF p. 23 / book p. 286 | 1,958 | For subscribers |