We Come from Good Stock

<p>West Central Wisconsin 1853. As soon as the ice goes out on the St. Croix River Mildred Potter's boarding house fills with lumberjacks bringing logs down river to the mill. In the spring one lumberjack Levi Jefferson Oakes notices Mildred's sister Mary and lingers after supper to talk to her. So begins <em>We Come from Good Stock</em> Kay Oakes Oring's history of family frontier and fortitude carved out of the rugged beauty of rural Wisconsin. From marriage and children to prosperity loss and reclamation the Oakes clan represents the peril and promise of staking a claim starting a family and watching the things you build become eternal.  </p>