A. MINNESOTA First in importance for the Scandinavian settlements in Minnesota are four county histories: _History of Fillmore County, including Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota_ (1882); _History of Goodhue County_ (1882); _History of Houston County, etc._ (1882); Martin E. Tew and Victor E. Lawson and J. E. Nelson, _Illustrated History and Description and Biographical Review of Kandiyohi County, Minnesota_ (1905),--easily the best local history relating to Scandinavian settlement, as well as one of the latest and most comprehensive. Closely connected with this last work in scope and value is Alfred Söderström, _Minneapolis Minnen: Kulturhistorisk Axplockning från Qvarnstaden vid Mississippi_ (1899). Other works dealing with the State or sections: Isaac Atwater (editor), _History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota_ (1893); Fredk. W. Harrington, _Geography, History, and Civil Government of Minnesota_ (1883); Soren Listoe, _Staten Minnesota i Nord Amerika_ (1869); _History of the Minnesota Valley_ (1882); _History of the Upper Mississippi Valley_ (1882). W. A. Gates, _Alien and Non-resident Dependents in Minnesota_ (in _Proceedings_ of National Conference of Charities and Correction, (1899)); F. H. B. MacDowell, "Minneapolis and her Scandinavian Population", _Scandinavia_, III (1884); Louis Pio, "The Sioux War, in 1862--a Leaf from the History of Scandinavian Settlers in Minnesota", _Scandinavia_, I (1883). B. WISCONSIN Of the State as a whole: J. W. Hunt, _Wisconsin Gazetteer, containing the Names, Locations, and Advantages of the Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Postoffices, and Settlements_ (1853); Wm. R. Smith, _The History of Wisconsin, in three Parts: Historical, Documentary, and Descriptive_ (1852); Alexander M. Thompson, _A Political History of Wisconsin_ (1902); Charles R. Tuttle, _An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin_ (1875); R. G. Thwaites, _Preliminary Notes on the Distribution of Foreign Groups in Wisconsin_ (in _Annual Reports of State Historical Society of Wisconsin_, 1890); G. W. Peck (editor), _Cyclopedia of Wisconsin_, 2 vols. (1906). For the localities: Spencer Carr, _A Brief Sketch of La Crosse, Wisconsin_ (1854); Daniel S. Durrie, _A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin ... with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County_ (1874); E. W. Keyes, _History of Dane County_, 3 vols. (1906); _The History of Racine and Kenosha Counties_ (1879); _The History of Rock County_ (1879); _The History of Waukesha County_ (1880); H. L. Skavlem, "Scandinavians in the Early Days of Rock County, Wisconsin", _Normands-Forbundet_ (1909). C. ILLINOIS Charles A. Church, _History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois, From its first Settlement in 1834 to the Civil War_ (1900); _History of Henry County, Illinois_ (1877); _The Past and Present of La Salle County_ (1877); John M. Palmer, _The Bench and Bar of Illinois. Historical and Reminiscent_ (1899).