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TKe A-mcrican Muscwm in Britain FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT The. Frontier Hero in History and Legend KENT L. STECKMESSER Wisconsin and 'Nsgro Suffrage LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR. How Glenn Frank Became University President LAWRENCE H. LARSEN Tke Anti-Federalists FORREST MCDONALD Wisconsin "Stovewood" Walls RICHARD W. E. PERRIN

Published by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin / Vol. XLV I, No. 3 / Spring, 1963 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN

LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Director

Officers WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE, President HERBERT V. KOHLER, Honorary Vice-President JOHN C. GEILFUSS, First Vice-President GEORGE HAMPEL, JR., Treasurer E. E. HOMSTAD, Second Vice-President LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Secretary

Board of Curators Ex-Officio GAYLORD NELSON, Governor of the State MRS. DENA A. SMITH, State Treasurer ROBERT C. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of State FRED H. HARRINGTON, President of the University ANGUS B. ROTHWELL, Superintendent of Public Instruction MRS. W. NORMAN FITZGERALD, President of the Women's Auxiliary

Term Expires 1963 SCOTT M. CUTLIP EDWARD FROMM MRS. HOWARD T. GREENE JAMES RILEY Madison Hamburg Genesee Depot Eau Claire W. NORMAN FITZGERALD ROBERT A. GEHRKE DR. GUNNAR GUNDERSEN CLIFFORD SWANSON Milwaukee Ripon La Crosse Stevens Point MRS. ROBERT E. FRIEND JOHN C. GEILFUSS WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE Hartland Milwaulcee Madison

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Honorary Honorary Life Members WILLIAM ASHBY MCCLOY, Winnipeg PRESTON E. MCNALL, Madison MRS. LITTA BASCOM, Madison DOROTHY L. PARK, Madison MRS. LOUISE ROOT, Prairie du Chien Fellows Curators VERNON CARSTENSEN (1949) HJALMAR R. HOLAND, Ephraim MERLE CURTI (1949) SAMUEL PEDRICK, Ripon

The Women's Auxiliary Officers MRS. W. NORMAN FITZGERALD, Milwaukee, President MRS. JOSEPH C. GAMROTH, Madison, Vice-President MRS. MILLARD TUFTS, Milwaukee, Secretary MRS. ALDEN M. JOHNSTON, Appleton, Treasurer MRS. CHESTER ENGELKING, Green Bay, Assistant Treasurer MRS. SILAS L. SPENGLER, Menasha, Ex-Officio VOLUME 46, NUMBER 3/SPRING, 1963 Wisconsin

of History

WILLIAM CONVERSE HAYGOOD, Editor PAUL H. HASS, Editorial Assistant

The Good Old Days 162 Export Extraordinary: The American Museum in Britain 163 FRANCIS JAMES DALLETT

The Frontier Hero in History and Legend 168 KENT L. STECKMESSER

Wisconsin and Negro Suffrage 180 LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR.

How Glenn Frank Became President of the University of Wisconsin 197 LAWRENCE H. LARSEN

The Anti-Federalists, 1781-1789 206 FORREST MCDONALD

Wisconsin "Stovewood" Walls: Ingenious Forms of Early Log Construction 21.'S

RICHARD W. E. PERRIN

Readers' Choice 220 Accessions 236 Contributors 240

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