-New Book -2020-
Once Upon a Lake in Pepin
-A must have and one
of a kind masterpiece that captured most important events, believes, people
accounts, adventures, and dreams of this picturesque area and its inhabitants.
Once Upon
a Lake in Pepin
-There are more than 280 stories and 900 images on 252 pages in this amazing book.
-Book is available
in color (for only $30) or as a black and white
copy (for only $20).
-This illustrated book
covers chronologically a period from 500 million years ago to our present
times.
-If you liked Pepin
Odyssey, this is the book that you will enjoy even more.
- Everything you ever
wanted to know about this area is now in one book.
-Town of Pepin is an epicenter of this book. Besides town of Pepin,
this book is covering related events that influenced several bordering counties
including Buffalo, Pierce, St. Croix, Dunn, Pepin, Trempealeau, and Eau Claire
(in Wisconsin), and Goodhue, Winona, and Wabasha in Minnesota…
-Once Upon a Lake in Pepin glorifies past events on the both sides
of Lake Pepin.
Once Upon a Lake in Pepin recounts the events, landscapes, and
people that made this area the charming place it is today. There is everything
to be discovered in this book: buried treasures, Native American mounds, the
only operating lighthouse on the Mississippi River, UFO sightings, a murder,
unsolved bank robberies, kidnapping, shark accounts, Viking runes, mysterious
caves, ancient artifacts, the largest boat disasters on the Upper Mississippi,
the invention of water skiing, Native rebellions and battles, the last
Wisconsin public lynching, the B-24 bomber crash site, and even Pepie the
monster that was reported as a local residentJ. There are more than 280 stories accompanied
by 900 images where readers will discover an amazing world of Hoton Wakpa
(Dakota village and council grounds), the first ever written document at the
local Fort St. Antoine in 1689, Rum production and the royal proposal of
Captain Jonathan Carver, steamboat races on Lake Pepin, and Mark Twain’s
account of the Maiden Rock story... Full of stories and mysteries, one
after another, including a Jim Stokes dream and the proposal of 1994 to create
a National Monument dedicated to the Mdewakanton Dakota here in Pepin.
There is a little bit of everything for everyone to find in…
ONCE UPON A LAKE IN PEPIN
For only $20 (Black & White) or $30 (Color Copy) you can own this
amazing account on the historical event of this area in last 500
million years to present times.
-This is a great gift
for all of those distinguished history buffs, residents, visitors, and all of
people who love this area of Lake Pepin and call it their home.
Once Upon a Lake
in Pepin.
- How did Area of Pepin looked like 500
Million Years Ago during the Cambrian Period
- How did this area looked like during the
Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous.... and
other geological and prehistoric
periods.
- Why is this area called the Driftless Area
and how glaciers never covered the landscape of
Lake Pepin.
- What are some secrets of the first humans
that inhabited these lands.
- Pepie the monster of Lake Pepin, a story
similar to famous Loch Ness legend
- Secrets of mysterious Native American
burial mounds scattered all around Pepin prairies,
- When did Dakota and Chippewa peoples arrive
in Pepin Area,
- Who are Kiuksa (Code Breakers) Sioux who
lived around Lake Pepin?
- The Last Stand of Big Ojibway in 1795 - an
Indian Chief and his Spartan story,
- French Nicholas Perrot who wanted to burn
an entire Lake Pepin in 1686,
- How the Lake of Tears became known as the
Lake Pepin in 1680?
- What mysterious fortifications did Jonathan
Carver reported seeing near Lake Pepin in 1767?
- How did Chief Wapasha II lost his eye?
- Infamous 1824 massacre of white
Canadian traders on the shores of Lake Pepin,
- Who is African American runaway slave who
married Dakota Chief's daughter near Pepin in
1847?
- Who was that famous Indian girl that leaped
of the Maiden Rock in 1700 and why she did that?
- How did Red Wing, Pepin, Plum City, Nelson,
Stockholm, Lund, Wabasha.... become townships?
- Who are Santee Sioux (Dakota) from this
region and are they related to the Oneota Civilization?
- Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder and where she
was born in 1867?
- Why did B-24 bomber crash in Lake Pepin in
1944 and should its crew be remembered as
heroes?
- A location of only working Light House on
the entire Mississippi River?
- How the water skiing was invented on Lake
Pepin in 1922?
- Who built Historic Stockholm Hotel in 1914
and why?
- Did you know that there is a buried
treasure somewhere between Stockholm and Pepin?
- Where is a location of only
conducted archaeological excavation in this area and who
financed
it?
- Did you know that Pepin had a semi-pro
Baseball team that was the State Champion in 1967?
- Do you believe in Aliens? Only 30 miles
from Pepin, one town claims to be be the UFO capital of
the world.
- Learn of the last
public lynching in the Midwest and an infamous crimes of Maxwell
Brothers.
- Did you know that there were three bank
robberies in Pepin and that two of them went
unsolved?
- Who is great Softball coach who won two
High School Softball Championships in 1995 and
1998?
- How did Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau make
Wabasha famous in 1993?
- Who became the first person to swim an
entire length of the Mississippi River in 2002?
- Was there really a bull shark found in the
Lake Pepin in 2006?
- What is the story of the Flood Run and how
it began in 1970?
- What did Jesse James do in this area in
1876 and were the Maxwell Brothers his associates?
- What is the location on the Lake Pepin of
this worst boat accident on the Upper Mississippi
River (1890)?
- Who was the only resident of Pepin County
who died in Vietnam War in 1970?.............
...and 270 more amazing stories accompanied
with 900 images...
These and many other
amazing facts you will find in this book. An entire chronology of Pepin and
surrounding area. Everything you ever wanted to ask is now in one book.
Once Upon a Lake in Pepin