Excerpt from The Boundaries of Wisconsin: With a General Historical Survey of the Division of the Northwest Territory Into States; Illustrated by Eleven Maps Wisconsin having been the fifth and last commonwealth formed out of the old Northwest Territory, and obliged to con tent herself with the remains after the dowries of her four older sisters had been apportioned out of the family estate, an adequate study of her boundaries involves a general his torical survey of the division of that Territory into states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.