About This Book
It's a chronological account of the history of the Pepin WI. It's 96 page account of most important events connected to this area. -Rediscover Pepin Area History from the very beginning. The Pepin Odyssey recounts the events, people, and landscapes that made this area the charming place it is today. With an attempt both chronological and comprehensive, local history teacher Goran Pesic covers several centuries of Lake Pepin’s remarkable past, uncovering how it was shaped by the Native American cultures, French explorers and traders, waves of new inhabitants, politics and upheavals that created states of Minnesota and Wisconsin. As an ambitious project, the Pepin Odyssey documents and investigates many amazing events including Oneota villages and artifacts, arrivals of first settlers, the Sea Wing and the worst boat disaster on the Upper Mississippi River, the B-24 crash of 1944, UFO
sightings, origins of Native American mounds, French forts, reported lost treasures,Pepie the monster of Lake Pepin, remarkable famous people from the area including Laura Ingalls Wilder, Helen Parkhurst, and Cadwallader Colden Washburn… There is something for everyone to find, read, and learn in… The Pepin Odyssey.
