TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laird,Helen L.
TI  - A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982
T2  - Wisconsin Land and Life Series
SN  - 9780299214531
AV  - CT275 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Laird, Helen Connor,-1888-1982
KW  - O'Connor family
KW  - Laird family
KW  - Pioneers-Wisconsin-Biography
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life-Wisconsin
KW  - Women political activists-Wisconsin-Biography
KW  - Political activists-Wisconsin-Biography
KW  - Wisconsin-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Some Family Names -- 1. To Wisconsin -- 2. Getting Ahead -- 3. Marshfield -- 4. Laona -- 5. A Meeting of Titans: Robert La Follette and W.D. Connor -- 6. Business, Politics, and Family: 1906-1907 -- 7. Risky Business: 1908-1909 -- 8. Promising Years: 1909-1913 -- 9. Melvin Robert Laird -- 10. Illinois versus Wisconsin: 1913-1916 -- 11. War: 1917-1919 -- 12. Omaha: 1919-1923 -- 13. The Return: 1924-1931 -- 14. Surviving Losses: 1932-1936 -- 15. The Divided House: 1937-1939 -- 16. Endings and Beginnings: 1940-1944 -- 17. Another Ending, Another Beginning: 1945-1946 -- 18. In a Man's World: 1947-1950 -- 19. Regent: 1951-1959 -- 20. Family Matters: 1951-1959 -- 21. A Different World: 1960-1968 -- 22. The Mother, the Politician, and the Professor: 1969-1974 -- 23. Past and Present: 1975-1979 -- 24. Home: 1980-1982 -- Postscript -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
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