Wisconsin Simply Beautiful
By Darrl R. Beers
For Darryl R. Beers and R. J. and Linda Miller, exploring their home state of Wisconsin is a continuing pleasure. Now this volume collects some of their best photography of historic sites, river and farm life, characteristic landscapes, weather's many moods, and grand seasonal changes.

Spirit of the North
By Richard Hamilton Smith • $30
Award-winning photographer Richard Hamilton Smith's full-color images of Northern Wisconsin reveal the north in all its seasons, an ever-changing landscape of extremes.

Wisconsin Supper Clubs
By Ron Faiola • $35
Wisconsin Supper Clubs is a resource for and about supper clubs throughout Wisconsin that includes beautiful photographs of the unique supper club interiors, proprietors, and customers, as well as fascinating archival materials.

Tavern League
By Carl Corey • $30
In Tavern League, photographer Carl Corey documents a unique and important segment of Wisconsin culture. Our bars are unique micro-communities, offering patrons a sense of belonging. Many of these bars are the only public gathering place in the rural communities they serve. These simple taverns offer the individual the valuable opportunity for face to face conversation and camaraderie.

Bottoms Up
By Jim Draeger & Mark Speltz • $20
Bottoms Up celebrates Wisconsin's taverns and the breweries that fueled them. Beginning with inns and saloons, the book explores the rise of taverns and breweries, the effects of temperance and Prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality.

On the Hunt
By Robert C. Willging • $27
Drawing from Department of Conservation papers, hunting magazines, newspapers, historic photos of classic deer camps, and the personal stories of hunters and deer managers, On the Hunt offers a fascinating glimpse into a distant and not-so-distant past, when the hunt joined men in almost mythical unity and bucks were seemingly larger than life.

These books and more are available at The Local Store, 205 N. Barstow St.