Wisconsin!

Wagons West #19

by Dana Fuller Ross

Famous rough-rider Toby Holt battles the wealthy lumber barons of Milwaukee--including a ruthless enemy obsessed with destroying Holt and his enterprise--to build a lumber operation in the forests of Wisconsin

Genres: Historical Fiction, Westerns, Fiction, Historical

Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1987

About the author

Dana Fuller Ross is a pseudonym used by Noel B. Gerson and James M. Reasoner.

Noel Gearson specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms, "Dana Fuller Ross.", Anne Marie Burgess; Michael Burgess; Nicholas Gorham; Paul Lewis; Leon Phillips; Donald Clayton Porter; Philip Vail; and Carter A. Vaughan. He has written more than 325 novels.

James Reasoner (pictured) is an American writer. He is the author of more than 150 books and many short stories in a career spanning more than thirty years. Reasoner has used at least nineteen pseudonyms, in addition to his own name: Jim Austin; Peter Danielson; Terrance Duncan; Tom Early; Wesley Ellis; Tabor Evans; Jake Foster; William Grant; Matthew Hart; Livia James; Mike Jameson; Justin Ladd; Jake Logan; Hank Mitchum; Lee Morgan; J.L. Reasoner (with his wife); Dana Fuller Ross; Adam Rutledge; and Jon Sharpe. Since most of Reasoner's books were written as part of various existing Western fiction series, many of his pseudonyms were publishing "house" names that may have been used by other authors who contributed to those series

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have to say I did love Ursula and her daughter here - women who own and run a business and know what they are doing. It's about time we got some of them back.

Henry is a jerk however. The reason why your friends in the homeland don't like is that you treated your fiancée badly and they had enough (finally). Also he either is marrying the other woman from guilt or from love - Ross can't seem to make up his mind. I don't feel sorry for him. You should have broken it off earlier, you cheated on her twice and can't even be honest about it, and yet you want her to be nice to you. WTF?

Three stars only because of Ursula. That was good.

[David Nichols · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, how could one resist a title like that? The book itself is a formulaic potboiler, set in the eponymous state in 1872. If memory serves, it was part of a series of novels sharing the same premise: take the name of a state, add an exclamation mark and a cliched plot, and you're set for life, or at least 50 novels.

[Mgsmith · Rating 4 out of 5]

May sound somewhat repetitive here but I got hooked on the first book and it was like an addiction.
The author shows how the westward movement affected families and individuals while placing them within history itself.

[Amanda Eiden · Rating 4 out of 5]

finally! henry/hank/heinrich is shunned by his family for cheating on cindy for over a year 🙏 and not him hoping that toby—cindy’s OLDER BROTHER—would understand out of “bro code” or “doing his duty”… you didn’t have to have sex with her for over a year my guy. i was cackling out loud. new least favorite character and loving toby’s single era.

then we meet Ursula, Maida, and Fred who are a fun addition to the story—thank god there’s something new happening

at the end, there’s a tease of a stock market crash “Black Friday” which i’m guessing is supposed to be like Black Monday? just like 100 years earlier?? as usual, toby is worried about everyone but himself. so, even though he has 0 stock holdings, he’s speculating about the downfall of others while he hasn’t seen his children at all during this book! oh yeah, and timmy almost died… again…

on the cover is almost definitely Ted Taylor + Marjorie White (againnnnnnn)

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a well written book and has it's fans. Being from WI, I found this paperback at a resale store in TX and invest .10. I story is a simple historical romance (very little actual WI History). The men are either very good and near perfect or bad and die. I found then ending to be perfect for the way the story was told. I was really hoping the book would have been more based in WI. Most of the story takes place not in WI and even the big finish takes place in Chicago. The book does not even use the real WI city but made up ones, the only real cities listed are Milwaukee and Madison. Where is Oconomowoc or Waukesha?

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great! This one stands out as one of the better in the series. I’ve often noted that books in this series come in three types: (1) Fresh Starts; (2) Continuations; (3) Wrap Ups. That is, we’re either starting up a whole bunch of new plots & introductions new characters OR we’re just plodding the existing story lines forward OR we’re cleaning up all kinds of loose ends.

This book felt like a fresh start. We’ve got new characters, new plot lines, and all the old tired plots seem to be done.

Looking forward to #20!

[Karen Holman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story "Wisconsin!" (Wagons West, #19) by Dana Fuller Ross is an interesting tale involving many settings. The creative characters, numerous settings including England and Germany, and crafty ending will have readers searching for different books by this author. copy right 1987 423 LP pages

[Amanda-Has-A-Bookcase · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like the more in depth look into Henry's life in Germany. also it's nice to see more of Janessa too.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

western soap opera but ok

[Laurie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book about the early beginnings of empire in the state of Wisconsin, emphasizing the lumber barons, the German brewers, and the farmers who came to the state to create their destiny.

[Lisa Marks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chicago rebuilds after the fire and a brewery begins in Wisconsin.

[Cws]

W Ros

[Billye · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Chicago Fire of 1871- wonderful series

[Partridge Public]

Ross, Dana Fuller PB

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not true to reality perhaps.

[Michael Garreffa` · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second Time I am reading this series....

[Bowdoin]

Reader in group - I'm reading book 19 of a series of 24 . The book title is Wisconsin!. It is the Wagon's West Series by Dana Fuller Ross from 1987. It is fiction. The book is about how people struggled leaving the east and going by wagon train to the west and setting up there to start new lives. Wisconsin deals with the forestry business, and how German brewers have come to Wisconsin for the hops and grain to make their brew.