Powder, People and Place: Badger Ordnance Works and the Sauk Prairie

by Michael J. Goc

Tall grass prairie. Home of native people. Heart of a prosperous farm community. Host to a massive military munitioins plant. The Sauk Prairie has been a focal point of American history for as long as history has been recorded here. Focusing on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, known as the Badger Ordnance Works during World War II, Powder People and Place presents a series of stories that merge into a seamless history of the powder plant, the people whose lives it changed and the place where they came together.

404 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Kim]

Interesting. More maps of area would have been good. I grew up in the area and was unfamiliar with some of the places. It did bounce around a little too much. All in all an interesting read.