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The Donnerstag Family of Woodboro Chapter 1: The Staga Begins
🌳🌲If These Woods Could Talk, they might tell you about the 1880s influx of European immigrants who hacked and sawed their way ever northward, creating the Wisconsin we know today 🌲🪚
Meet the Donnerstag family of Woodboro! In this, the first chapter of the story, we follow Louis and Johanna Donnerstag from German Bohemia to the United States, to Wisconsin, and to Marathon County and further north.
This six part series tells the true story–largely lost to time–of a troubled family that once terrorized the Northwoods and almost earned notoriety akin to the James or Dalton gangs.
Chapter 2 will…
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